Maintenance Technician

Job Description

Position Overview:

The Maintenance Technician will be a member of the Maintenance & Operations team within the Vaccines integrated process team for a 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.

Basic Functions & Responsibility:

Under the direction of the Operations & Maintenance Coach:

• Provide maintenance support to pharmaceutical process equipment. 

• Takes appropriate action to correct operational maintenance problems. 

• Responsible for carrying out our Manufacturing Division Divisional and site mission by assuring the quality of products and services are of the highest quality, optimal cost, and delivered on schedule. 

• Responsible for continuing improvement in all aspects of the operation. 

• Must be able to function in a team-based culture and operate in an empowered environment. 

• Identifies and demonstrates a working knowledge of customers, suppliers and their requirements.

• Seeks ideas and information on how to improve customer service involving internal and external customers. 

• Applies knowledge of the overall supply chain to efficiently complete work tasks. 

• Applies knowledge of key business processes in their functional areas to perform daily work tasks.

• Adheres to the highest level of data integrity in all activities.

Primary Responsibilities:

Under the direction of the Operations & Maintenance Coach:

• 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 individual area of expertise

• Other accountabilities, as assigned

Equipment: 

• All equipment (vaccine processing and packaging) used in the pharmaceutical operation. 

• Participate in the industrial calibration program. 

• Machine shop equipment

• Electric programming and diagnostic equipment. 

• Precision calibrated equipment necessary for the complete maintenance of processes used in vaccine filling and packaging. 

• Programmable logic controller & other computer interfaced controller equipment.

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 vis