Job description:
 

Do you pride yourself on your integrity? We do what’s right for our employees, patients and partners so can you?

Oxford Biomedica’s Engineering team are responsible for all aspects of Plant, Mechanical, Electrical and Incoming utilities from point of connection into any of our facilities.  This includes laboratories, manufacturing suites and office space.

We are currently recruiting for an Instrument & Calibration Technician to join the team.  The purpose of the role is to execute all aspects of instrument maintenance/service and calibration activities across all process and analytical functions at Oxford BioMedica, ensuring all implemented systems and operations align with industry best practice

Your responsibilities in this role would be:

• Ensure all instruments and systems are assessed, identified, maintained, and calibrated in line with policy and procedure.
• Organise and perform calibration activities across the organisations manufacturing and Laboratory facilities.
• Provide first line response to attend instrument and equipment failures and liaise with OEM where applicable to determine fault and rectification.
• Complete required documentation and manage in a structured way to ensure traceability and retrievability.
• Perform assessments of new instruments and systems to determine requirements for calibration, including frequency, calibration range and tolerances.
• Implement calibration strategies and procedures to ensure all instrumentation and systems are managed appropriately and in line with regulatory expectations.
• Supervise external service and calibration contractors and review work activities.
• Be a Subject Matter Expert for all activities relating to instrumentation maintenance and calibration and represent the organisation during regulatory and customer audits.
• Take responsibility for distributed monitoring systems in process and analytical functions.
• Improve equipment and system performance by developing and implementing improvement ideas.
• Provide support and expert guidance to other technical departments as required.
• Complete all quality documentation ensuring all actions and activities are completed in the shortest possible time and the quality records are closed out within their due dates.

To be successful in this role, you will have the following skills and experience:

• Time served apprenticeship & L3 qualification in an Electrical or Electronic discipline.
• Demonstrable experience similar role including instrument maintenance and calibration practices.
• Use of field calibrators and calibration management software packages.
• Excellent fault finding, problem solving, report writing and analytical skills.
• Ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels.
• Organising own calibration & PPM schedules, whilst delivering to plan.

Desirable:

• Familiarity with standard laboratory equipment such as centrifuges, pipettes, incubators & freezers. 
• A working knowledge of Beamex MC6 field calibrator and CMX calibration software.
• Previous experience liaising with and supervising contractors

Do you want to feel inspired every day?  We’re future-focused and our business is growing rapidly. We succeed together through passion, commitment and team-work, and so can you.

Collaborate. Contribute. Change lives

We look forward to receiving your application.

No Agencies please

Profile description:

To be successful in this role, you will have the following skills and experience:

• Time served apprenticeship & L3 qualification in an Electrical or Electronic discipline.
• Demonstrable experience similar role including instrument maintenance and calibration practices.
• Use of field calibrators and calibration management software packages.
• Excellent fault finding, problem solving, report writing and analytical skills.
• Ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels.
• Organising own calibration & PPM schedules, whilst delivering to plan.

Desirable:

• Familiarity with standard laboratory equipment such as centrifuges, pipettes, incubators & freezers. 
• A working knowledge of Beamex MC6 field calibrator and CMX calibration software.
• Previous experience liaising with and supervising contractors

 Do you want to feel inspired every day?  We’re future-focused and our business is growing rapidly. We succeed together through passion, commitment and team-work, and so can you.

Collaborate. Contribute. Change lives

We look forward to receiving your application.

No Agencies please

We offer:

We are a pioneering gene therapy business, and our mission is delivering life changing gene therapies to patients. We work together, motivated to make a difference, and so can you.

We are pioneers; no one else does what we do.

Gene therapy is the treatment of disease by the delivery of therapeutic DNA into a patient’s cells. It is transforming medicine as we know it, long term and potentially curative treatments for a wide range of diseases are now possible.

We are at the forefront of this exciting area. We have a strong reputation in gene therapy, with world leading expertise in lentiviral vectors. We have a leading, integrated platform of exclusive technologies to design, develop and bioprocess unique gene based medicines, both in house and with partners.

We drive credible science to realise incredible results.

Whether you’re motivated by the discovery and development of product candidates within Research, or by cutting edge tools and technologies including AI and automation of our contract development and manufacturing organisation, we can offer you a career like no other. We are excited about our future. Join us and change lives.