Job Title: Injection Moulding Technician
Location: Waterlooville
Location Type: On-Site
Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/
Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/
When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, a part of the Spirax Group, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.
This role will focus on:
As Lead Technician your primary focus will be to support the efficient use and maximised output of manufacturing within BioPure. You will ensure that you and your team are procedurally compliant, whilst adhering to our high health and safety standards. You will oversee and manage the repair and servicing of all production mould tooling with our external toolmakers, as well as identifying areas for continuous improvement across manufacturing including but not limited to SMED, cycle time and scrap reduction projects. You will need to accurately maintain documentation to ensure full product traceability to our customers and compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
Key accountabilities include:
* Overall responsibility for your team of technicians, ensuring they work in a safe and supportive environment.
* Collaborate with and continually support the manufacturing team to ensure production plans and business needs are met.
* Troubleshoot machinery and tooling defects, produce detailed tooling reports, and work directly with toolmakers to resolve issues on all validated production tooling.
* Manage the daily workload of your team by effectively prioritizing tasks to meet operational goals.
* Oversee mould tool changes, set-ups, and production approvals, ensuring these are completed safely and efficiently.
* Drive continuous improvement by identifying and eliminating waste throughout the manufacturing process.
* Work with the HR team to address and investigate any concerns related to disciplinary actions, performance management, or sickness absence within your team.
* Maintain all relevant documentation to ensure compliance with BS EN ISO 14644 cleanroom requirements, BS EN ISO 9001, and cGMP standards.
* Liaise with Planning, Manufacturing, Warehouse, and Quality Control teams to maintain an efficient manufacturing flow.
* Support engineering in the process development of new tooling projects.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
* Significant technical experience in injection moulding and mould tool setting, ideally in a highly regulated environment.
* Experience leading and managing a team effectively.
* Experience of setting up new processes for both cold runner and hot runner tools.
* Strong understanding of BS EN ISO 9001 and cGMP standards to ensure compliance in manufacturing.
* Knowledge of BS EN ISO 14644 cleanroom requirements to maintain sterile workspaces is advantageous although not essential.
* Understanding of IQ/OQ/PQ validation processes within a regulated pharmaceutical setting is advantageous although not essential.
* Knowledge of manufacturing to BS EN ISO 9001 standards is desirable.
At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including:
* A competitive salary
* Flexible working arrangements
* A generous holiday allowance
* Three days’ paid volunteering leave
* Comprehensive private healthcare
* An enhanced retirement plan
* Life assurance
* Additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan
Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.
We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include:
* Gender-neutral parental leave
* 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave
* Paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse
* Menopause-friendly workplace principles and more.
Learn more at Our Inclusion Commitments.
Company Overview
At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.
Watson-Marlow is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
Our purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!
Our inclusive culture and values unite us, guide our decisions and inspire us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.
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