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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 at our facilities.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Engineer to ensure maximum equipment availability, assume ownership of critical asset incidents, coordination with resolution parties, and maintain effective communication between stakeholders for post-incident analysis.

Your responsibilities in this role would be:

• To personally lead diagnostic activities relating complex equipment faults, liaising internally and externally as required.
• Management of OXB’s external engineering resource in relationship to specialist repairs and maintenance of assets.
• Accountable for verifying and implementing effective maintenance and calibration activities across different asset types.
• Hands on completion of planned and reactive maintenance and calibration activities complete with associated documentation.
• Provide support for implementation of new technology, assets, processes, and products across the business.
• Co-ordinate engineering activities across multiple sites to ensure best practice, highlighting risks and differences. 
• Maintain a safety-first approach to assets and engineering procedures. 
• Maintain awareness of industry technology advancements driving OXB engineering to the forefront of the industry. 
• Identify, lead, and embed engineering process improvements.

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

• A minimum of HNC (OFQUAL LEVEL 4 or equivalent) in a related Engineering discipline and/or the equivalent work experience in a regulatory environment.
• Advanced electro-mechanical knowledge of complex equipment with proven hands-on experience in technical fault finding and rectification.
• Demonstratable ability to own, understand and resolve complex equipment problems.
• Ability to constructively challenge established ways of working and propose alternatives.
• Experience of influencing, coaching and mentoring others
• Able to use majority of Microsoft Office suite software.
• Proven experience within a GxP Pharmaceutical/Biotech industry is preferred.
• Experience in the introduction of new technology, and production processes is preferred.

About Us:

We are an innovative leading viral vector specialist focused on delivering life changing therapies to patients.

Our innovative solutions and proven expertise allow us and our customers, the biotech and biopharma industry, to deliver life-saving therapies to reach even more patients.

The success of cell and gene therapy products transforms outcomes for millions of people suffering from some of the world’s worst diseases and medical conditions.

We work together, motivated to make a difference, and so can you.

What’s in it for you:

• Highly competitive reward packages
• Wellbeing programmes
• Development opportunities
• A 35-hour working week
• Welcoming, friendly, supportive colleagues
• A diverse and inclusive working environment
• Our values are: Deliver Innovation, Be Inspiring and Have Integrity
• State of the art laboratory and manufacturing facilities

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

Collaborate. Contribute. Change lives

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.