Senior Maintenance Technician- Second Shift

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Liberty, SC location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management division.

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Senior Maintenance Technician will perform and provide guidance in preventative maintenance, safety checks, repairs, installations, and modifications on
production equipment. Maintain records on all production machines and equipment. Maintain a data base for maintenance
repairs, work orders and inventory.

Ability to work Second Shift- Monday-Thursday, 5:30pm - 3:30am

What You’ll Work On

• Diagnose and perform preventative maintenance (electrical and mechanical) on production equipment.

• Complete changes or modifications to production equipment. Install custom accessories needed to ready equipment for production.

• Purchase needed items for inventory, spare parts and emergency repairs.

• Maintain maintenance software data base in order to keep accurate records and produce equipment reports.

• Conduct daily tooling and equipment set ups as required.

• Troubleshoot and repair production equipment. Tear down, inspect and rebuild production equipment.

• Recognize repair items that require outside service and arrange for repair.

• Perform visual inspections of equipment and fixtures.

• Support 5S.

• Train technicians in new and revised maintenance procedures.

• Complete CMMS work orders and preventive maintenance tasks on time per the established schedule.

• Respond to production down issues in a timely manner and communicate status to stakeholders.

• Issue parts to CMMS work orders and maintain an accurate inventory of critical spare parts.

• Assist with production line moves and update equipment records in CMMS.

• Add assets and parts, create PM schedules, transfer assets, and setup users in CMMS. Create change requests to update PM procedures as needed.

• Coordinate maintenance plan and response to complex and longer term equipment repairs.

• Assign PM work orders to technicians and ensure an even distribution of PM work.

• Support all Company initiatives as identified by management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS),

• Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and other regulatory requirements.

• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments. Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

• High Sc