Senior Maintenance Technician- Vaccines

Job title: Senior Maintenance Technician- Vaccines

Location: Swiftwater, PA

About the Job

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families.

The Senior Maintenance Technician is responsible for supporting the design, installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of all site wide equipment in order to maintain current Regulatory environment in GMP and non GMP Antigen Manufacturing facilities at the Swiftwater site.

This position reports to and supports the area Deputy Director who is ultimately responsible for the efficient, effective, and reliable operation of all equipment in their area.

The Senior Maintenance Technician will have interactions with all levels of the organization including HSE, Industrial Operations, Engineering, contractors, R&D, MSAT, and various other support groups.

This position will be responsible of the Electrical , Mechanical and Utility system at the Swiftwaters facility with a focus in the Antigen Maintenance Platform.

The candidate must possess knowledge of Clean Utilities, Plant Utilities, HMI / PLC operating Equipment, Manufacturing Process Equipment or applicable knowledge that demonstrates, installation, repairing and troubleshooting of complex manufacturing and utility equipment.

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the person assigned to this position. The primary duties and responsibilities are intended to describe those functions that are essential to the performance of this job. This job description does not state or imply that the above are the only duties and responsibilities assigned to this position. There are other duties and responsibilities that are considered incidental or secondary to the overall purpose of this job. Employees holding this position will be required to perform any other job-related duties as requested by management.

We are an innovative global healthcare company that helps the world stay ahead of infectious diseases by delivering more than 500 million vaccine doses a year. Across different countries, our talented teams are exploring new technologies to protect people and promote healthy communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Main Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot equipment failures, determine root cause, repair/replace site wide equipment

• Preventive/Predictive Maintenance - Daily checks, PM02’s and PMMM’s of GMP and non GMP equipment at the site

• Assist and support other maintenance technicians performing preventive maintenance and /or repairs of site wide equipment

• Completion of work orders and time entries into the SAP system

• Completion of all assigned training modules, SOP’s, SWI’s, safety, and compliance requirements in the ISO train system

• Train and mentor Associate Maintenance Technicians

• Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment

• All other duties as assigned

Context of the job/major challenges

• Provide technical expertise, troubleshooting and improved equipment maintenance/reliability strategies to optimize safe, compliant, and efficient operations of process equipment.

• Establishes effective preventative and predictive maintenance plans for GMP Pharmaceutical process equipment according to OEM recommendations, industry standards and process application.

• Preventive maintenance and repairs on industrial and process equipment including the following:

  • Electricity  including single phase and 3 phase 480V

  • Electronics

  • Air Handling Unit Operations

  • Tensioning of belts and alignment

  • Bearing replacement

  • Knowledge of VFD’s, VAV’s,

  • Knowledge of steam principals

  • JCI Metasys Systems

  • PLC’s and chart recorders

  • Clean rooms and air balancing 

  • Pump repairs, rebuilds, replacement

  • Motor replacement and alignment

  • Schematics and the ability to read P&IDs, AF&IDs, Electrical Prints

  • Refrigerators, freezers, and incubators

  • Chilled water systems, Process Water Systems