Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in almost 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Group revenues in 2022 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more about Convatec, please visit
We are guided by our five core values, that shape the way we work, every day: Improve Care, Deliver Results, Grow Together, Own It and Do What’s Right.
At Convatec, we’re transforming our business for the better. Better products. Better ways of working. And better ways of delivering for our customers and each other. We’re aiming for nothing short of excellence.
Join us on our journey to #ForeverCaring as an Automation Engineer and you’ll do the same.
This role requires the candidate to be HNC or degree qualified with an electrical/Controls bias within an engineering discipline, with a time-served engineering apprenticeship. Using exceptional technical engineering knowledge, the Controls Engineer will support all manufacturing processes at the Deeside site with the clear objective of restoring and improving plant reliability in a fully automated, regulated, and demanding environment.
The role will encompass a technical leadership, support, and guidance role to shop floor functions, working closely with internal teams to facilitate the seamless transition to plant of new equipment, whilst ensuring site standards and OEE expectations are met prior to release. The role will be essential in the support of manufacturing processes acting as a technical professional providing process expertise along with key skills relating to product, function, reliability, and improvement engineering to achieve specific KPI’s, improve plant OEE, quality at plant level.
The role will play a key part in the direction, determination and implementation of exceptional engineering and technical standards across the Deeside site, through both obsolescence, new process support and escalated breakdown coverage.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Demonstrates a high level of creativity in the design/development of new or improved processes, systems, prototypes, components, materials, machinery and equipment, in support of the manufacturing, conversion and packaging of ConvaTec products.
2. Support the operations team in line recovery and associated engineering activities.
3. Support in the investigation and completion of quality objectives related to technical and process matters through the companies CAPA and NC procedures.
4. Identify, justify, and manage engineering projects across site to maintain compliance, address risk, improve machine performance and deliver cost savings.
5. Support New Product and Process introduction.
6. Ensures a seamless transition from process development stage to positive manufacturing performance while assuring compliance with regulatory and safety procedures.
7. Accountable for the interpretation, presentation, collection and distribution of process performance metrics.
8. Identify opportunities to improve process capability, machine performance and uptime through engineering led initiatives.
9. Responsibility for the complete and correct handover of Control aspects of new equipment from the integration team to plant.
10. Talking with data, ensure clear and robust solutions are put in place to performance and/or quality issues throughout the Deeside site.
11. Institutes and evaluates new procedures for improved safety and quality, using regulatory guidelines and Gaps.
12. Develops new systems and practices to enhance the performance of the business.
13. Able to judge the technical complexity of a project and assign tasks as needed to complete.
14. Supports the effective integration of new machinery/technology and products/materials into Deeside Operations.
15. Ability to work in a Safe manner to maintain the welfare of self and colleagues and maintains the highest standards of housekeeping and GMP in all aspects of work.
About you:
16. Team orientated.
17. Self - Motivation and flexibility of job assignments
18. Blend of technical, interpersonal skills
19. Must possess strong leadership skills.
20. Strong interpersonal and written communication skills
21. Must be able to build a strong working relationship with employees on shop floor.
Qualification/Education
22. Craft technician qualifications NVQ 4, specified PLC qualification, C&G, ONC/HNC, BTEC in an appropriate Engineering Discipline, or equivalent
Travel Requirements
Minimal as required for business needs (International & Domestic)
Languages
23. Speaking: English
24. Writing/Reading: English
Our ambitions will bring the very best out in you. You’ll be pushed to aim higher and really own your work. You’ll be encouraged and supported to make things happen, too. It can be challenging. But, as the progress you make will help improve the lives of millions, it’ll be worth it.
This is stepping up to a challenge.
This is work that’ll move you .
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