Your mission
We are offering an exciting opportunity to join MeiraGTx Ltd as a Facilities & Maintenance Engineering Apprentice within our Engineering team. This is a structured “earn while you learn” programme combining hands-on experience maintaining critical equipment and facilities with a fully funded engineering qualification.
You will support the reliability and performance of site infrastructure—including utilities, building services, and manufacturing equipment—while developing the technical and professional skills required for a long-term engineering career.
This is a Engineering Maintenance Technician (Level 3) apprenticeship with the course materials being taught at Newham College.
Job Description
What You’ll Be Doing
- Supporting planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and calibration activities.
- Assisting with maintenance and fault troubleshooting/response to ensure equipment and utilities remain operational.
- Using a Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to manage tasks.
- Maintaining critical spare parts and engineering inventory.
- Supporting contractors on-site, including safety and permit compliance.
- Contributing to engineering projects.
- Working to high standards of safety, quality, and compliance.
What You’ll Learn
- Maintenance and optimisation of utilities, facilities, and equipment.
- Core engineering principles in maintenance, calibration, and asset management.
- Working within GMP and regulated environments.
- Exposure to quality systems such as deviations, CAPA, and change control.
- Continuous improvement within an engineering function.
What We Offer
Salary & Progression
- Attractive starting salary.
- Structured annual pay increases.
- Clear progression into permanent roles upon completion.
Development
- Fully funded apprenticeship (no tuition fees).
- Dedicated study time during working hours.
- Mentoring and structured career development.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays.
- Pension scheme.
- Healthcare and wellbeing support.
- Travel support (e.g. season ticket loan).
- Employee benefits and discount platform.
About You
- Passion for engineering, problem-solving, and learning.
- Strong academic performance (or predicted results), ideally in STEM subjects.
- Motivated, proactive, and detail-oriented.
- Able to follow procedures and work safely in a regulated environment.
- Interested in working towards an engineering qualification (e.g. HNC, HND, BEng).
- Enjoys working as part of a team.
Essential Requirements- Minimum of 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) including Maths, English, and a Science subject.
- 96 UCAS points including A-levels (or equivalent) in a STEM-related subject. (e.g., Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, or Physics), or completion of a relevant Level 3 qualification (e.g., BTEC in Engineering or Applied Science).
- Eligible to undertake the Science Industry Process Plant Engineer (SIPPE) Level 6 Apprenticeship.
- Interest in engineering, manufacturing, and process improvement.
- Strong communication, organisation, and time management skills.
- High attention to detail and ability to follow technical procedures accurately.
- Basic IT proficiency, including Microsoft Office.
- Team-oriented with the ability to collaborate across functions.
- Proactive, motivated, and committed to continuous learning and development.
Why us?
This programme provides a direct pathway into an engineering career within the biotechnology sector—offering hands-on experience, a recognised qualification, and structured career progression from day one.
Start your engineering career with a programme designed to help you build practical skills, gain industry experience, and grow within a leading biotech organisation.
About us
MeiraGTx is a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on developing potentially curative treatments for patients living with serious diseases. We currently have six programs in clinical development including three ocular indications, a salivary gland condition, and a Parkinson’s disease program. Our initial focus on diseases of the eye, salivary gland and central nervous system is based on the significant unmet medical need coupled with the high potential gene therapy has to provide meaningful clinical benefit in these areas. With headquarters in New York and London, our global footprint provides us the opportunity to partner with leading institutions around the world, allowing us to deepen our understanding of diseases and their progression.
Our team was built with deep expertise in gene therapy development, allowing us to efficiently advance our programs from preclinical to clinical development. Our core capabilities in viral vector design and optimization and gene therapy manufacturing give us a differentiated approach to developing gene therapies. Additionally, we are developing proprietary technology to potentially enable innovative gene therapy treatments whose expression can be turned on and off with an easily administered small molecule. We believe temporal control of gene therapy products has the potential to transform the gene therapy landscape.
Our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, completed in early 2018, was designed to meet global regulatory requirements, including the current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) required by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the UK and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The 29,000-square foot facility has the flexibility and capacity to produce sufficient product for all our clinical trials and will scale to commercial capacity.
