Maintenance Engineer

Company: Teva Pharmaceuticals
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Location: Runcorn
Job Description:

About Teva

We’re Teva, a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company, enabled by a world-class generics business. Whether it’s innovating in the fields of neuroscience and immunology or delivering high-quality medicine worldwide, we’re dedicated to addressing patients’ needs now and in the future. Here, you will be part of a high-performing, inclusive culture that values fresh thinking and collaboration. You’ll have the room to grow, flexibility to balance life with work, and the opportunity to contribute to better health worldwide.

How You’ll Spend Your Day

An Maintenance Engineer will be responsible for overseeing and coordinating maintenance activities for manufacturing equipment with a hands‑on approach. The role focuses on strengthening the efficiency of the manufacturing systems to achieve maximum equipment performance while ensuring ongoing compliance with Health & Safety, cGMP/regulatory and corporate standards. The engineer owns equipment, procedures and maintenance plans, and drives continuous improvement initiatives to implement industry best practice.

Key Responsibilities

  • Execute planned and unplanned preventative maintenance tasks independently, aligning with site KPI and schedule compliance.
  • Review and update maintenance schedules based on predicate knowledge to support ongoing business operations.
  • Drive forward plans for preventative and predictive maintenance to further reduce risk to equipment and processes.
  • Support production and other departments to minimise unplanned downtime and ensure effective communication.
  • Monitor equipment performance, propose and implement improvement activities to optimise performance and improve reliability.
  • Effectively communicate and influence key stakeholders.
  • Own and review standard operating procedures and maintain training compliance.
  • Increase cost effectiveness through energy and maintenance savings initiatives.
  • Monitor expenditure when purchasing, ensuring costs are within reasonable ranges and the maintenance budget.
  • Ensure right‑first‑time completion of all batch, operational and supporting documentation.
  • Support non‑conformances, investigations, corrective actions and root‑cause analysis effectively.
  • Minimise the impact of engineering activities on site operational targets through careful planning, communication and teamwork.
  • Ensure effective management of contractors to guarantee safe, smooth and successful execution of activities.
  • Manage and implement small projects and drive improvements.

Work Pattern

  • 7 shifts over the course of a 2‑week period, including weekends.
  • Mixture of 6 am‑6 pm or 6 pm‑6 am shifts.

Your Skills and Experience

  • HND or degree/post‑graduate qualification would be beneficial but not essential.
  • Significant relevant career experience and technical know‑how is essential.
  • Related equipment experience operating in a pharmaceutical or similar highly regulated environment.
  • A mechanical engineering background is required; multi‑skilled across both electrical and mechanical is ideal.
  • Experience of equipment performance improvement, ideally within a GMP setting.

Attributes

  • A strong communicator with proficient written skills.
  • Excellent proactive and reactive problem‑solving skills.
  • Hands‑on with a keen eye for detail and high‑quality standards.
  • Self‑motivated with the ability to operate autonomously or within teams.

Benefits

At Teva, better health starts from within. From day one, you’ll be supported with benefits designed to help you thrive in and out of work – including generous annual leave, reward plans, access to tailored health support, and meaningful ways to give back to the community. Career development is encouraged through our learning programmes and internal growth opportunities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commitment

Teva Pharmaceuticals is committed to equal opportunity in employment. It is Teva’s policy that equal employment opportunity be provided without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, military status or status as a disabled or protected veteran, or any legally recognized status entitled to protection under applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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Posted: May 17th, 2026