AstraZeneca
Multiskilled Technician
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Multiskilled Technician
Location: Macclesfield
Competitive salary and benefits
Working pattern: 36 hours per week – days (Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00) or, Week 1 Mon, Wed, Friday 07:00-19:00: week 2 Tues, Wed, Thurs 07:00-19:00
Are you ready to assist in maintaining essential utilities and engineering systems running safely, optimally, and efficiently?
We’re looking for a Multiskilled Technician to join our Engineering team at AstraZeneca.
In this hands-on role, you’ll help maintain the plant, equipment, and utility systems that our site relies on every day. You’ll fix technical issues, respond to breakdowns, support the introduction of new equipment, and find opportunities to improve performance.
You’ll bring expertise in your own engineering field while building your skills across other areas. We’ll give you opportunities to learn, develop, and make a real contribution to how we maintain and improve our engineering systems.
What you’ll do:
Working within our Engineering team, you’ll:
- Carry out planned and reactive maintenance safely, optimally, and on schedule
- Diagnose faults and respond to equipment breakdowns, helping improve availability
- Maintain engineering documentation and complete SAP notifications accurately and on time
- Carry out compliance testing, calibration, and equipment set-up in line with procedures
- Identify equipment performance or compliance issues and raise them appropriately
- Use engineering data to identify trends, recurring issues, and opportunities for improvement
- Support and lead continuous improvement activities and engineering projects
- Use tools and methodologies including LEAN, TPM, RCM, RCA, and CBM
- Follow change control processes and safe systems of work
- Support, train, and mentor less experienced technicians, operators, and new starters
- Work closely alongside colleagues from Engineering, Quality Assurance, and other site teams
- Maintain your own technical, SHE, and GMP training while continuing to develop your multiskilled engineering capability.
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Depending on your technical background and area of responsibility, you could support systems including:
- HV and LV electrical distribution and emergency backup systems
- Electrical inspections
- Fire alarm and fire protection systems
- Control and instrumentation
- Gas alarm systems
- Compressed air
- Steam and condensate
- Water systems.
What we’re looking for:
Our ideal candidate brings:
- A good understanding of engineering principles and technical expertise within a relevant field
- Knowledge of GxP procedures and Safety, Health, and Environment requirements
- Good English language skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the assurance to collaborate with colleagues across the business
- Good organizational skills and capacity to work both independently and as part of a team
- Strong attention to detail and a commitment to high standards
- Skill in balancing competing priorities while handling a varied workload
- A proactive approach and willingness to support the wider team
- The confidence to work through changing priorities and ambiguity.
It would be great if you also have:
You don’t need to tick every box, but experience in any of the following would be valuable:
- A similar manufacturing or pharmaceutical environment
- Project planning
- Project coordination and guiding transitions
- Influencing and facilitation
- End-to-end supply chain processes
- Systems such as EUSAP or Coupa
- Microsoft Office, including Word, presentation software, and Excel.
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Please note:
This role is internally aligned to SA91 Grade 10
Why join us?
This is an opportunity to apply your engineering skills in a varied role. You can solve problems, improve performance, and help keep essential site systems operating effectively.
We value people who share ideas, work collaboratively, and look for better ways of doing things. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your technical capability, broaden your experience, and contribute to improvement projects across Engineering.
Ready to bring your engineering expertise to our team? We’d love to hear from you.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Date Posted: 28-Sept-2026
Closing Date: 12-Oct-2026
Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.
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