Engineering Technician -Night Shift

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Position Brand Description:

The Packaging Engineering Technician is responsible for machine maintenance on packaging/assembly equipment consisting of tray unloader, vision systems, laser marking stations, conveyors, robotics, Cartoning and Case packaging equipment, and other pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment currently in service.  This role is first in escalation from maintenance mechanics for troubleshooting as well as providing additional maintenance shift coverage.  This position will require the development of expertise in production processes and equipment and/or control system technologies.  The RTP Maintenance Engineering Technician will help ensure that equipment is maintained in a qualified state, can be operated safely, and that maintenance is properly performed on the systems.

Key Objectives / Deliverables

• Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment, working safely, and accountable for supporting all HSE Corporate and Site Goals.
• Assures that operational and maintenance procedures and practices reflect safety concerns. 
• Finds and eliminates safety / quality issues with equipment and processes.
• Participates in safety reviews and audits, as required.
• Performs activities in accordance with cGMPs and applicable procedures.
• Initiates work orders to support maintenance and troubleshooting activities.
• Performs break / fix maintenance.
• Trains maintenance personnel in maintenance execution and processes.
• Escalates issues to front line supervisor, operations, and engineering following escalation model.
• Understands the production process and critical process parameters.
• Identifies opportunities to improve quality using equipment performance data and by assuring maintenance is performed appropriately.
• Seeks out and identifies opportunities to improve equipment operational effectiveness and reliability.
• Infuses equipment uptime, line efficiency, and increases overall equipment effectiveness in a production environment by condition monitoring, troubleshooting, and assisting in engineering changes.
• Understands the bottleneck section of each line and becomes an expert at repairing bottleneck sections.
  • Ensures job plans are accurate.
  • Eliminates non-value-added PM’s.
  • Updates GMARS to ensure locations, assets, and spare parts are set up at a level which allows line mechanics to increase up time.
• Works within production team to provide support required to meet goals of safety, quality, uptime, and quantity.
• Monitors specific equipment signals / measurements that will improve the PM program’s success rate measured by reduced unscheduled maintenance.
• Develops repair part lists with specific inventory levels given historical demand, supplier lead-time, component costs, and risk to business stoppage.
• Demonstrates a proactive approach for reliability planning.
• Plans and implements reliability solutions identified by process team members.
• Completes work orders.
• Helps develop setup and troubleshooting guides to promote runtime.
• Provides technical support for process and engineering teams.
• Provides technical support by:
  • Investigating and resolving issues that create production delays.
  • Transferring knowledge of equipment capabilities and operational techniques to operators, engineering, and maintenance.
  • Implementing tools for operations and engineering to learn and work more proficiently.

Minimum Requirements:

• Automated machine maintenance experience.
• Knowledge and compliance with safety requirements (LOTO, live equipment troubleshooting).
• Experience with a CMMS (GMARS preferred).
• Ability to solve problems.
• Track record of maintaining a neat and orderly work area (good housekeeping).
• Ability to follow written procedures while performing maintenance activities.
• Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment, working in a safe manner, and being accountable for supporting all HSE Corporate and Site Goals.

Additional Preferences:

• Journeyman trade or equivalent experience preferred.

• Experience within a regulated industry; FDA regulated indu