Maintenance Technician, Sterile Operations

Are you a hands-on problem solver with a passion for precision and reliability? As a Maintenance Technician, Sterile Operations, you’ll play a critical role in maintaining the equipment that keeps life-saving products safe and sterile. Based out of our new facility in Athens, GA, step into a high-impact environment where your expertise supports global health.

Who is Meissner?

The goal at Meissner is to be more than simply good; it is to be extraordinary. Extraordinary performance comes from extraordinary people.

Meissner as a group is passionate about helping our clients manufacture lifesaving and life enhancing drugs, therapies, and vaccines. We develop, manufacture, supply and service advanced microfiltration products and single-use systems worldwide.

We know that when you are passionate about what you do, it’s more than just a job.

Meissner is focused on the development of the whole individual, and we have programs and tools in place to help us stay at our best mentally and physically. In alignment with our commitment to support the growth and development of the whole individual, Meissner has inaugurated a Learning and Development department to solely focus on cultivating our team. When you grow, we grow.

How you will make an impact:

We are seeking a highly skilled Maintenance Technician, Sterile Operations with an emphasis on electrical expertise to support the maintenance and troubleshooting of specialized sterilization equipment. This role will play a crucial part in ensuring the optimal performance, safety, and reliability of our sterilization systems, which are essential for our production and operational processes. The ideal candidate will possess advanced technical skills in electrical systems, preventive maintenance, and troubleshooting of complex machinery, with a focus on sterilization equipment.

Maintenance, Troubleshooting and Diagnosis:

• Perform regular inspections, maintenance, and repair of sterilization equipment and other specialized machinery (vacuum, RF, magnets, etc), with a focus on high voltage electrical systems.
• Use diagnostic tools and techniques to identify and resolve electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, high vacuum, deionized water system, or hydraulic issues related to sterilization and support equipment.
• Use advanced troubleshooting techniques to diagnose and resolve electrical issues, including wiring, control systems, sensors, and other electrical components of sterilization equipment.
• Proactively identify and resolve technical and process shortcomings to improve operational performance, quality, and costs.

Preventive Maintenance:

• Develop and execute preventive maintenance plans to minimize equipment downtime with minimal disruption to production schedules and extend the life of sterilization systems.
• Ensure equipment is being calibrated to meet operational and quality standards.

Compliance, Safety and Documentation:

• Ensure all maintenance activities comply with relevant safety standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., OSHA, FDA, cGMP), ensuring the safety of both personnel and equipment.
• Maintain detailed documentation of all maintenance activities, repairs, and replacements. Assist with writing and updating standard operating procedures (SOPs) for equipment use and maintenance.
• Maintain accurate records of maintenance and repairs while ensuring management is provided critical information as needed.

Collaboration:

• Work closely with the operations, production, and quality teams to ensure equipment is running at peak performance.
• Provide guidance and technical expertise to junior technicians.
• Responsible for the timely requisitioning of required supplies from appropriate sources to meet post-production schedules relative to the current JIT objectives.
• Collaborate with and provide information to, various internal teams and key stakeholders to address any technical concerns that arise.

Equipment Upgrades:

• Assist in the installation, calibration, and upgrading of new or existing sterilization systems as needed.
• Keep inventory of spare parts and order replacements as needed.