Maintenance Technician Night Shift

No Relocation Assistance Offered
# 159396 - Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States

Who We Are
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a caring, innovative growth company that is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, we sell our products in more than 200 countries and territories under brands such as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, hello, meridol, Sorriso, Tom’s of Maine, EltaMD, Filorga, Irish Spring, PCA SKIN, Protex, Sanex, Softsoap, Speed Stick, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Pet Nutrition.

We are recognized for our leadership and innovation in promoting sustainability and community wellbeing, including our achievements in decreasing plastic waste and promoting recyclability, saving water, conserving natural resources and improving children’s oral health.

If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile and join our global team!
 

A Maintenance Technician 2 will be responsible for the support of production lines, equipment, and the facility. The primary accountabilities of the role include troubleshoot, repair, and preventative maintenance as required to ensure equipment reliability; assist with root cause analysis to identify reasons for failures and breakdowns; review electrical and pneumatic schematics during troubleshooting, repair and project work; and will work closely with the operators to support production and transfer skills to Operation Technicians. Will also work with others to achieve factory business objectives of safety, productivity, customer service, quality, cost and environmental protection.  

 

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

 

• Complete work orders as scheduled and documents in SAP in a timely manner. 

• Troubleshoots, repair and preventive maintenance (PM) as required to ensure equipment reliability.

• Reviews equipment instructions, blueprints, electrical, and pneumatic schematics to ascertain test specifications, procedures, objectives, test equipment, nature of technical problems, and possible solutions such as part redesign, substitution of material or parts, or re-engineering of parts or subassemblies

• Assists Operations and Engineering teams with root cause analysis to identify reasons for equipment failures and breakdowns.

• Records test procedures and results, numerical and graphical data, and makes recommendations for changes in product or test method.

• Fabricates machine parts as needed.

• Works with teams and focus resources, planner scheduler and assures correct PM's are in SAP.

• Helps maintain spare parts inventory and restocking inventory for the plant as needed.

• Trains and assists in the changeovers of automated equipment.

• Accurately and fully completes all regulatory and compliance related documentation and procedures.

• Participates in structured group or team activities related to line/area performance improvement e.g. autonomous maintenance (AM), housekeeping, problem solving etc.

• Works with operators to support production and transfer skills to Operation technicians.

• Understand and comply with Hill’s policies, safety standards, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs). Identify and report GMP issues to management.

 

This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions.

 

 

 

 

Education/ Experience Requirements

 

Basic qualifications include:  

• 1+ years of industrial maintenance experience in a manufacturing plant or an Associate’s degree in a related field

• 3+ years manufacturing experience

• Practical knowledge of basic maintenance shop equipment 

• Problem assessment, problem solving and basic math skills

• Technical knowledge of CP plant equipment and controls (Internal posting)

• Intermediate computer skills in Google Suite and Excel

• Ability to work an off-shift work schedule that may include weekends. 

Preferred qualifications include: 

• Technical cer