Apprentice: Instrumentation at National Bioproducts Institute

Job Advert Summary    

• Guided by its purpose to provide products for patients to alleviate pain and suffering and improve their quality of life, NBI’s vision is to be the leading African manufacturer and supplier of quality therapeutic proteins and diagnostic products.
• National Bioproducts Institute NPC has a vacancy for the role of Apprentice: Instrumentation. The successful incumbent will be responsible for:
• Supporting GMP compliant manufacture of pharmaceutical products by ensuring maximum online time of process Utility services supplied to Manufacturing.
• Learning to perform routine maintenance on the machines.
• Conducting daily checks on machines and their support services.
• Evaluating and facilitate repairs of plant equipment and identify actions to prevent recurrences.
• Assisting in projects associated with new plant and equipment.
• Providing cross-functional support.
• Creating spares inventory and help with spares stock take.
• Making wiring diagrams
• Completing training needs as laid by institution in order to obtain qualification.
• Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced candidates.

Minimum Requirements    

• N6 or S4 electrical engineering (light current).

Duties & Responsibilities    

Learn the skills required to ensure continued operation of the plant equipment

• Assist in performing routine checks of all equipment and systems for correct operation
• Schedule maintenance activities as defined by the preventative maintenance plan
• Facilitate the calibration of measuring and control instruments according to defined schedules and production requirements
• Maintaining records and schedules for specified plant and equipment

Learn and facilitate repairs of plant equipment and identify actions to prevent recurrences

• Learn to analyse problems and determining required maintenance /repair work to ensure continuity.
• Liaise with third party contractors where repairs are not possible on site
• Track and report on progress of repairs required

Maintenance

• Co-ordinate maintenance activities on NBI equipment
• Records keeping 

Stock Control

• Learn routine stock take of spares

Commissioning unit operations

• Ensure efficient delivery, on-time delivery of active raw materials.
• Select transportation routes to maximise combining shipments or consolidating warehousing and distribution.
• Cold chain management of active raw materials

Support project work 

• support capacity expansion projects (CAPEX)
• support continuous process improvements
• Supervision of t contractors
• Implementation of SAP change notifications
• Hands-on work

Core Competencies

• Leading and Influencing Others
• Managing Relationships
• Personal Leadership
• Business Impact
• Ability and willingness to learn new things.
• Problem solving and aligning of resources to needs.
• Accepting accountability, clear decision making and communication.
• Can both work independently and seek peer review when needed
• Technical writing and good oral communication skills