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Process Control Technician
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Engineering
💰 Salary Not shared
📊 Market 2,500 GBP–3,500 GBP/mo (30,000 GBP–42,000 GBP/yr)
About the Company
o 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.
Responsibilities
- ● 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
- ● Maintain calibration records, instrument data sheets, loop drawings, cause-and-effect information, control narratives, software records and asset history in accordance with data-integrity and document-control requirements
- ● Perform planned and corrective calibration of process instrumentation, including pressure, temperature, flow, level, analytical and control devices, using traceable standards and approved procedures
- ● Complete instrument loop checks, functional testing, equipment set-up and verification of alarms, trips, interlocks and permissives, recording results accurately and resolving defects
- ● Diagnose faults across PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI and BMS control systems, field instrumentation, I/O, industrial networks and final control elements
- ● Support authorised PLC, DCS and HMI configuration changes, software backups and restoration, ensuring changes are tested, documented and completed through approved change-control processes
- ● 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. The systems you could work with:
- ● 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
Requirements
- ● 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.
Benefits
- ● 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
Credential Requirements
for United Kingdom
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Timeline: 6–18 months
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