Automation Technician - API (1st Shift)

Why Patients Need You 

Whether you are involved in designing and developing manufacturing processes for products or supporting maintenance and reliability, engineering is vital to ensuring customers and patients have the medicines they need, when needed. Working with our innovative engineering team, you'll help bring medicines to the world even faster by imagining what’s possible and taking action. 

What You Will Achieve 

Working with Pfizer’s dynamic engineering team, you will play a critical part in managing the maintenance and reliability engineering activities involving the redesign, maintenance, and repair of utility systems, buildings, and production/non-production equipment. 

You are recognized as a subject matter expert with specialized knowledge and skills in procedures, techniques, tools, materials, and equipment. You will be entrusted with adapting standard methods and procedures by applying your knowledge, prior work experience, and requirements. 

Your business awareness of the cross-organizational impact on project delivery will elevate the quality of project deliverables. You will arrive at decisions on which methods and procedures are the best fit for different work situations. 

You will train others and reinforce behaviors that will help us achieve our goal of providing the best healthcare to our patients. 

How You Will Achieve It 

• Perform maintenance, changeovers, adjustments, and repair of production and process equipment, the general facility, and utility equipment. 

• Participate in multicraft work activities as required. 

• Responsible for priority assessment and decision-making as it relates to troubleshooting, diagnostics, and proactive maintenance of systems and mechanical equipment in a cost-effective manner. 

• Participate in safety training programs and utilize tools, equipment, etc. safely as per plant safety procedures. 

• Read and follow equipment schematics, logic diagrams, and engineering drawings. 

• Use electrical testing equipment, including multimeters, clamp-on current meters, meggers, etc. in a safe manner. 

• Make recommendations regarding improved machine performance. 

• Follow all SOP and (Current) Good Manufacturing Practices (part of GxP) requirements. 

• Provide customer training in the implementation of those systems in compliance with company standards and procedures, and government regulations (SOPs, GMPs, GLPs, PSM, etc.). 

• Responsible for providing input to performance assessment of team members. 

• Manage own time, and professional development and be accountable for own results. 

• Prioritize own workflow and may lead and allocate work to others and assist in establishing their priorities. 

Here's What You Need

• High School Diploma or GED 
• 1-3 years of experience troubleshooting and maintaining PLCs and/or DCSs 

• Preventative Maintenance programs 

• Troubleshooting – Root Cause Analysis 

Bonus Points If You Have

• Electrical license 

• Associates degree preferred in electrical or engineering discipline 

• Experience in GMP environments an