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Maintenance Technician - Night Shift

Lilly
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Aug 2026
💰 $82,000/yr($42,000/yr$82,000/yr)

About the role

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us. 


For 140 years, Lilly has manufactured medicines that improve people’s lives around the world. We produce our medicines using some of the most sophisticated manufacturing technologies and rigorous quality standards. Lilly Manufacturing strives for excellence in its process, standards, procedures and behaviors to develop medicines with safety first and quality always.

 

Responsibilities:

The focus of the Maintenance Technician - Night Shift is to provide maintenance expertise to service, repair, and maintain process and utility other pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment currently in service.

The Maintenance Technician - Night Shift is expected to understand the needs and requirements of the customer (Operations); must be able to work effectively with customers, handle customer questions with tact and understanding while displaying good customer service.


Key Objectives/Deliverables:
 

    •    This role is expected to improve equipment uptime, line efficiency, and increase overall equipment effectiveness in a production environment by condition monitoring, troubleshooting, and assisting in engineering changes.

    •    Must possess a good mechanical aptitude to troubleshoot and repair equipment while, following departmental rules and regulations.

    •    Must be willing to work with safety as a primary focus and abide by applicable safety procedures and practices.

    •    Troubleshoot the root causes of machine problems (e.g., excessive vibration or temperature, bearing failures, abnormal noises, and poor performance).

    •    Perform repairs and overhaul equipment (e.g., gear boxes, pumps, blowers, fans and drives) to include disassembly, setting tolerances, aligning, resetting timing (e.g., air compressors, vacuum pumps)

    •    Setup equipment to design specifications (e.g., timing, leveling, alignment)

    •    Operate precision alignment equipment (e.g., Roma-align, lasers, etc.)

    •    Must have the ability to quickly and accurately diagnose the root cause of a problem and implement the proper corrective actions to minimize downtime.

    •    Must accurately document the actions taken to repair the equipment in the CMMS program.

    •    Willing to assist in areas outside of their primary responsibility and learn other skills, as required 

Minimum Requirements:

  • High School / GED minimum ​

  • Visa Sponsorship: Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.

Basic Qualifications:
 

    •    High school diploma/GED

    •    Minimum 2 Years of Maintenance

    •     Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.

    •    Must satisfy background check and drug screening requirements.

 

Additional Skills/Preferences:

    •    Must be able to speak, read and write English at a sufficient level to communicate technical and business information effectively.

    •    Must be able to effectively use business software programs, such as, Maximo, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office Suite and other required software programs.

    •    Must be able to effectively work in a team environment.

    •    Physical considerations include the ability to work with or around equipment, climb ladders and stairs and use PPE (Personal Protective Equ

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