Sr. Maintenance Reliability Technician, 1st Shift (Mon-Fri, 6a-230p) - 7032

Job Title: Sr. MRT

Location: Columbus, OH

Job Type: Full-Time

Req ID: 7032

 

About Us:

As a developer, manufacturer, and supplier of essential medicines, Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and its affiliates’ mission is to bring Better Health. Within Reach. Every Day.® for millions of patients around the world.  We are a trusted, reliable partner and dependable source of over 750 high-quality generic, specialty and branded pharmaceutical products that hospitals, physicians and pharmacists need to treat their patients across North America, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.  Through our 32 manufacturing plants, eight R&D centers, and 8,500+ employees worldwide, we are always hard at work creating high-quality medicines and making them accessible to the people who need them.

 

Description:

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.  We are seeking a talented and motivated Sr. MRT to join our team.

 

In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring reliable manufacturing, packaging, and/or site facility equipment by troubleshooting, adjusting, repairing, rebuilding, fabricating, predicting failures, and replacing components and coordinating vendor support to ensure equipment performance is reliable and meets expectations, but also independent analysis of failures with possible support of Team Lead, Engineer and/or Optimizer. Performs preventive, corrective, or emergency work orders and respond to service calls while the plant is in operation, which may include off-shift periods and weekends. Considered Subject Matter Expert SME of discipline area, able to train others, and apply values into other disciplines (ex: manufacturing/packaging or packaging/automation) as needed.

 

Manufacturing equipment includes (but not limited to) equipment such as Fluid Bed Dryers, Granulators, Tumblers, Compactors, Tablet Presses, Encapsulators, Tanks, Pumps, Valves, Isolators, and various other process equipment.

 

Packaging equipment includes (but not limited to) equipment such as Bottle Blower/Erectors, Tablet/Capsule Fillers, Liquid Fillers, Thermoformers, Water Chillers, Cartoner, Sealers, Checkweighers, Labelers, Printers and various other process equipment.

 

Site facility equipment includes (but not limited to) HVAC, building automation, chilled water systems, boiler systems, water purification systems, compressed air systems, or plumbing systems.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides expert service and technical expertise by leading repairs and improvements to maintain manufacturing, packaging and/or site facility equipment.  Completes predictive, preventive and reactive work in support of reliable and efficient equipment.
• A technical expert is adept in root-cause troubleshooting, risk averse decision-making with business impact consideration, collaborating with manufacturers and vendors to retrofit replacement parts within a controlled environment, providing advanced project support by previous experience, and is considered the subject-matter expert SME within their given knowledge set.
• Resolves issues and improves operations by making necessary changes to support continuous improvement by completing work on time, and driving to improve work processes and procedures relative to manufacturing, packaging and/or site facility equipment.
• Monitors the manufacturing, packaging, and/or site facility areas and related equipment to identify problems or opportunities and identify root cause and remediation of failures either independently or with support of others for repairs or process improvements to efficiency and/or reliability of manufacturing, packaging, and/or site facility equipment.
• Communicates regularly with other MRT's, Team Lead, Coach, and customers regarding the state of the equipment, status of work, known problems, improvement initiatives, and path forward.
• Maintains and ensures documentation, both written and electronic, is accurate, complete and factual as required by policies,