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Maintenance Technician - Night Shift

Eli Lilly and Company
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Jul 2025

About the role

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Quick Benefits Overview:

    •    Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription benefits are effective on your first day of employment

    •    Paid vacation- starting annually at 120 hours (prorated based on start date)

    •    Shift Bonus for Weekend hours

    •    Sign-on bonus

 

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

 

Basic Qualifications:

    •    High school diploma/GED

    •    Minimum 2 Years of Maintenance

    •    Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position

    •    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 Equipment). He/she may be exposed to harsh weather conditions as part of the job.

    •    Good, all-around hands-on experience with repair of equipment.

    •    Use basic trouble shooting equipment such as multi-meters, calipers ect.

 

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