Lead Calibration Engineer

Overview

In this role you will lead hands-on calibration activities for pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment while guiding a small team to ensure GMP-compliant, safe operations. You will act as a technical expert, mentoring engineers and technicians and coordinating with cross-functional groups to minimize downtime. The position focuses on maintaining calibration status, solving equipment issues, and driving continuous improvement in a GMP environment. This opportunity combines technical excellence with leadership to sustain equipment reliability and team performance at our Swindon site.

Pay / Benefits

• site performance bonus
• pension scheme matching up to 8%
• life assurance
• generous holiday entitlement
• Reward Gateway discounts
• LinkedIn Learning access

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on calibration, testing, fault finding and troubleshooting of pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment in alignment with GMP procedures
• Lead and coordinate daily Calibration team activities, prioritising workloads
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring and support to calibration engineers and technicians
• Ensure calibration work is conducted safely, accurately and within agreed timescales
• Investigate calibration failures, deviations and equipment issues; escalate risks as needed
• Maintain and review calibration records and ensure data integrity and quality standards
• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Maintenance and Quality to coordinate activities and drive improvements
• Monitor team performance, support training and audits, deputise for management when required

Key requirements

• Hands-on calibration experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing or regulated environments
• Strong knowledge of calibration principles and instrumentation
• Experience leading or supervising a small technical team (desirable)
• Ability to balance hands-on work with people leadership and coordination
• Solid understanding of GMP, data integrity and pharmaceutical engineering standards

• Strong organizational and prioritisation skills
• Effective communication and stakeholder management
• Problem-solving and troubleshooting
• Calibration principles and instrumentation expertise
• GMP and data integrity practices
• Troubleshooting of pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment

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