Process Control Technician

Process Control 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 Process Control Technician to join our Engineering team at AstraZeneca.

In this hands‑on role, you’ll maintain and improve the instrumentation, automation and process control systems that our site relies on every day. You’ll calibrate instruments, diagnose control‑system faults, respond to breakdowns, support the introduction and qualification of new equipment, and identify opportunities to improve reliability, compliance and process 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.

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.

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

• Process instrumentation and final control elements, including transmitters, analysers, switches, control valves, actuators and variable-speed drives
• PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI and building management systems, including associated I/O, panels, communications and industrial networks
• Automated control loops, alarms, trips, interlocks, permissives, safety-related controls and equipment condition-monitoring systems

• Gas alarm systems
• Compressed air
• Steam and condensate
• Water systems.

Our ideal candidate brings:

• A recognised technical…