PMU Engineering Assistant: Sponsorship Available

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

The Pharmacy Manufacturing Unit (PMU) at Guy’s Hospital is an MHRA Licenced Unit manufacturing a broad portfolio of terminally sterilised and non-sterile Specials (unlicensed) medicines. Additionally, under our MIA(IMP) License , the PMU provides clinical trial manufacturing activities through our collaboration with Kings Health Partners and other clinical trial organizations.

The PMU has an extensive portfolio of equipment and plant machinery to support pharmaceutical manufacturing activities, including processing & packaging lines as well as Water for Injection (WFI), Air Handling (AHU) and Autoclave systems.

The department is comprised of approx. 30 staff made up of operational teams, senior support and engineering teams.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assist the PMU Engineering team in providing specialist engineering services to the PMU to ensure that all pharmaceutical manufacturing machinery and plant remains operational at all times. The key role responsibilities include:

o To carry out routine monitoring of the critical utility systems supporting pharmaceutical production and manufacturing process equipment.o To perform routine maintenance, fault diagnosis and assist in the repair of critical utility systems and process equipment as agreed with the PMUEngineering and Maintenance Lead.o To provide technical assistance for validation activities associated with the critical utility systems and processing equipment in conjunction with the Pharmaceutical Lifecycle Management team.o To raise non compliances and support investigations into deviations in relation to engineering and equipment systems.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

  • A Level 3 Vocational Qualification in an engineering relevant subject or equivalent specialist experience, coupled with occupational training.

Previous Experience

Essential

  • Portfolio demonstrating experience of working within a broad range of occupational guidelines

Desirable

  • Experience of working in a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility or similar GMP industry

Skills/Knowlede/Ability

Essential

  • Demonstrated ability to clearly and accurately communicate complex technical information to a wide audience.
  • Demonstrated ability to organise self to deliver engineering team priorities.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify risk and carry out simple risk assessments with appropriate mitigation and escalation.
  • Demonstrated ability to work in restricted areas such as clean rooms or plant rooms wearing appropriate PPE
  • Demonstrated ability to comply with standard operating procedures and to assess other staff’s compliance with these procedures.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 13 September 2026

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