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Description:

Night Shift Role

The Mechanic provides expertise in a skilled trade to support the maintenance of site facilities.

Essential Job Functions:

• Prepare documentation of activities, actions, and/or results.
• Read SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and excerpts from technical documentation.
• Complete required training.
• Ensure proper documentation practices during job activities.
• Perform visual inspections.
• Conduct troubleshooting activities.
• Train others on systems, software, equipment, machines, procedures, and/or processes.
• Answer compliance and process questions from others.
• Communicate policies and procedures to employees.
• Establish visual tracking and other tools to enhance Audit readiness and trend analysis.
• Gather, organize, and communicate operational information to others.
• Lead and coordinate investigations and studies with little supervision.
• Participate in spill control, handling of hazardous materials, and first aid.
• Use MAXIMO and/or CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) to manage logistics.
• Attend team meetings to discuss progress, initiatives, and/or other matters.
• Monitor equipment and/or systems for performance and problem indicators.
• Perform data entry.
• Read, understand, and comply with cGMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) and SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), including general safety, lock outs, etc.
• Report process deviations when they occur.
• Wear gowning, sterile garments, and PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) as required by specific activities.
• Perform preventative (scheduled) and corrective/emergency (unscheduled) maintenance of equipment, systems, and/or facilities without supervision.
• Ensure proper documentation practices during maintenance processes.
• Maintain equipment and systems along with their certification records.
• Monitor and analyze process equipment performance.
• Perform, in order of priority, work required in response to process equipment requests received through the Work Request System.
• Read and interpret diagrams, drawings, and other schematics.
• Recommend and initiate activities to ensure area and equipment is maintained in a state of compliance.
• Provide input on the engineering of replacement parts.
• Conduct safety checks for work group, department, or site.
• Perform physical inspections of the site.
• Maintain accurate and complete records (for example: laboratory notebooks, quality records, sample receipts).
• Monitor air flow and balance.
• Perform infrared, vibration, pressure, superheat, and subcooling readings.
• Performing high purity water testing.
• Pull necessary parts to complete a work order or ticket.

Other Duties:

• Lead process improvement activities and teams to meet strategic goals.
• Wear harnesses to climb into tanks.

Minimum Requirements:

High school diploma or GED required and prior experience in a regulated or GMP environment.

Preferred Requirements:

Associate’s degree in a technical area.  Experience with building fire systems, plumbing, lighting, HVAC equipment (boilers, chillers, cooling towers, air handlers, humidifiers, and air dryers), low voltage electrical systems, emergency diesel generators.  Prior experience with CMMS.

Next Steps – Apply today!

 

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please complete the full application on our website at your earliest convenience – it is the only way that our Recruiter and Hiring Manager can know that you feel well qualified for this opportunity.  If you know someone who would be a great fit, please share this posting with them.

Date Posted

24-Jan-2020

Closing Date

23-Jan-2020

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