Maintenance Technician at GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline GSK), one of the world's leading research based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, is committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer.
GSK employs over 97,000 employees in over 100 countries worldwide.

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria Plc is one of Africa's largest consumer healthcare companies, producing leading brands such as Lucozade, Ribena and Panadol.

GSK is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Maintenance Technician

Location - Town / City Agbara
Ref No: 120913-1
Reporting To (Job Title): Maintenance Engineer

Job Purpose/Scope
The job exists to maintain all production equipment with emphasis on Tetrapak lines, PET lines, CAN line and OTC Pharmaceutical plant in a manner that will consistently achieve efficient, reliable, safe and cost effective results to ensure equipment uptime of up to 85%.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide complete back-up for immediate repair and/or maintenance of production equipment.
• Attend to all production and manufacturing equipment related breakdowns promptly and take initiative of local adaptation as may be appropriate.
• Ensure understanding of maintenance system of production equipment
• Stock up critical spares to enhance speedy attention to repairs and maintenance locally.
• Liaise with other departments (e.g. Production and Stores) on company’s local repairs initiative to ensure awareness.
• Play an important role in the installation and test running of new equipment to save time and cost of installation.
• Ensure that production equipment are kept in appropriate usable condition at all times.
• Provide adequate support for the maintenance crew during plant repairs.

Qualifications, Experience

• HND/OND/NABTEB/C&G in Electrical / Mechanical Engineering
• Must be IT literate
• At least 2 years experience in a similar role

Competencies

• Ability to interpret technical manual and engineering drawings.
• Versatile in problem solving theories (fault finding and trouble shooting).
• Ability to adapt local initiatives to achieve optimal performance at a lower cost.

Application Closing Date
26th September, 2013

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online