Senior Maintenance Technician

Job Description

Senior Maintenance Technician

Our Manufacturing Operations teams are the people that make our products. We work in the manufacturing plants with a “Safety First, Quality Always” mindset striving for continuous improvement. We work in the local plant linked to our global manufacturing network to ensure the highest quality of raw materials, intermediates, and finished products.

Position Overview:

The Senior Maintenance Technician will be a member of the Maintenance & Operations team within the Vaccines integrated process team for a start-up vaccine manufacturing facility in Wilson, NC.  This person is accountable for executing shop floor operations as well as providing preventative/corrective maintenance on primary filling, inspection, packaging, and Clean/Steam-In-Place (CIP/SIP) equipment/systems.

This is a hybrid role, focused on the startup and future routine operation of the vaccine manufacturing facility.  Utilizing a team concept, this role will spend a portion of time working in a Bio Process Operator capacity as well as spending time fulfilling traditional maintenance responsibilities.  Time in these duties will fluctuate based on business needs and demands.  It is important the successful candidate understands this hybrid role and has the ability and desire to handle both types of responsibilities.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Set up, adjust, operate, monitor, control, repair and maintain equipment, systems & processes within assigned area

• Perform equipment maintenance, including restoration of lost function, predictive & preventative maintenance

• Perform minor and major overhauls to equipment by completely disassembling, repairing, and reassembling equipment to proper operation conditions

• Perform corrective maintenance and troubleshooting for vaccine processing and packaging equipment utilizing diagnostic equipment and programmable logic controllers (PLC’s), as necessary

• Execute SAP transactions including workorders, spare parts management and PM change control

• Participate in new equipment installations by interfacing with equipment vendors and contractors, recommending spare parts, assisting process-project engineers, assisting qualification, and performing initial de-bug for vaccines processing and packaging equipment

• Strictly follow all safety & environmental requirements in the performance of duties

• Ensure that work and adjustments performed are properly documented and executed in alignment with change management procedures.

• Review & author Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) & other documents, as required.

• Execution of production schedule to achieve production goals

• Train fellow employees in areas of expertise; aggressively learn systems & equipment outside of own area of expertise

• Other accountabilities, as assigned

Quality:

• Interacts with other departments to ensure all packaging operations are performed in accordance with current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), site Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Divisional policies and guidelines

• Works with Quality, Operations, and Planning to identify and resolve quality issues/deviations; supports all investigations and corrective actions

• Examine products to detect defects, product damage, or other visual quality problems

• Troubleshoot and offer resolution and recommendation to coaches; appropriately gather and provide information for corrective actions

Safety:

• Conforms to established safety procedures in accordance with OSHA and other regulatory agencies

• Recognizes, utilize, and enforces the use of safety equipment when/as needed

• Champion for and actively takes accountability for personal safety as well as the safety of others

• Identifies, reports, and documents unsafe acts/conditions, participates in the investigation of accidents/injuries/incidents and in developing corrective and preventative actions (CAPA)

Financial:

• Contributes to achieving departmental financial goals by understanding and controlling labor costs, component usage and material waste. 

• Works with the coach to determine root cause for line downtime that causes misses for SA (Schedule Adherence) and delivery

Team | Individual Performance:

• Demonstrates a high degree of maturity, leadership, and personal integrity

• Strictly adheres to all s