Junior Mehanical Technician at The Biovac Institute

Key Performance Areas for this position include:

• Assist with all daily routine checks on all equipment eg. Temperature, pressure and any other potential compliance issues.
• To assist with all planned maintenance is completed by the agreed dates and manage the timelines with Section Head, where required.
• Aid in completing critical spares list
• To assist with setting up, plan and maintain maintenance programs for their building or department and site wide.
• To assist where needed with breakdown maintenance of all mechanical plant rooms, HVAC and utilities are completed
• Escorting service providers on site to conduct their maintenance/ work as and when required
• Ensure service providers adhere to cGMP and Bio-safety
• All documentation is completed correctly and according to cGMP requirements
• Ensure that the service provider complies with our legislative and cGMP requirement
• Assist in obtaining relevant certificates from providers where necessary
• All documentation is correct and filled in correctly per cGMP requirements and good document practice.
• Schedules completed as and when required, on time as agreed
• Assist Mechanical Technicians to draft and update relevant departmental SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures) timeously
• Assist in the development in departmental procedures/systems in order to improve compliance.
• Building GMP Knowledge and Compliance
• Building Quality Culture
• Establishing and maintaining a state of Control
• Driving Innovation and Continuous Improvement
• Driving Quality Risk Management
• Ensuring that area of responsibility is audit ready; closing audit findings’
• Managing Deviations, Change Controls, CAPAs
• Quality Objectives: Drive the quality objectives.
• Ensure a timely and effective communication.
• Escalate quality issues to the appropriate levels of management

Technical Competencies

• Acquiring an understanding and working knowledge of Quality systems
• Acquiring knowledge of pharmaceutical industry standards and guidelines in GMP, Quality and Laboratory Management
• Acquiring of pharmaceutical industry standards and guidelines in GMP, Quality and Laboratory Management
• Technical report writing
• Microsoft Excel for reporting
• cGMP vaccine manufacturing- quality and regulatory compliance knowledge, i.e. MCC and WHO 
• Quality management Systems

Generic Competencies

• Good coordination skills
• Attention to detail
• Record / documentation management
• Planning, implementation, execution and close out skills
• Service orientation
• Reporting and presentation capabilities
• Innovation and solutions orientation
• Flexibility and adaptability in responding to change