Lead Maintenance Technician | Vaccine Manufacturing

Job Description

We are seeking a Growth and Improvement minded Lead Maintenance Technician | Vaccine Manufacturing that can help drive our Strategic Operating Priorities.

• Invent | Pursue the Most Promising Internal and External Science to Address Significant Unmet Medical Needs
• Execute | Prioritize Resources Behind Our Key Growth Drivers (Oncology, Vaccines, Select Specialty Areas, Animal Health) While Optimizing Our Base Business)
• Adapt | Develop Our People, Culture and Business Model to Evolve with a Dynamic Landscape
• Diverse Talent | We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment with supporting leadership behaviors because having a high-performing, engaged workforce is critical to our ability to deliver innovative solutions to patients and customers around the world
• Values and Standards | Our Steadfast Commitment to Our Values and Standards will Continue to Guide Us as We Take on New Challenges and Will Always be Fundamental to Our Success - They are a Competitive Advantage for Us

Summary, Focus and Purpose

Our Company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where our Company has codified its legacy for over a century. Our Company's success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

Our Manufacturing Division (MD) is a Team of dedicated, energetic individuals who are committed to being the most trusted supplier of pharmaceuticals and health products worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, comprise an interdependent global manufacturing network that's committed to delivering a compliant, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time, across the globe.

The Lead Maintenance Technician | Vaccine Manufacturing is responsible for providing equipment troubleshooting and maintenance support to VMF Operations areas located in aseptic and clean room environments. Works within a Team to complete maintenance and troubleshooting activities and conducts complex maintenance tasks, resolves deviations and evaluates equipment performance.

You will follow proper procedures for maintaining production equipment in a clean room environment and actively supports, participates and embraces an empowered team culture including significant interaction with Production, Technical Operations, Quality and other support groups.

Key Functions

• Lead the shift group of mechanics and serves as a role model within the organization
• Actively coaches team members to improve individual and team performance and facilitate conflicts resolution within the team
• Anticipates and solves complex production, maintenance, and operational problems, including off-shift and after hours support
• Actively participate during the Operations Shift Change Tiers and Maintenance Tier 1
• Properly distribute the shift maintenance work load among other shift mechanics and self
• Follow up during shift period the maintenance activities progress and remove immediate road blocks
• Lead troubleshooting using the Problem Solving Application (PSA) tool
• Support CAPA implementation
• Liaison between Mechanical Service Engineer (MSE) and Operations
• Review work order documentation | Accountable for work order proper handling
• Train other mechanics on shift | Participate of Safety Walkthroughs and GEMBAs
• Conduct predictive maintenance and reliability tasks
• Identifies opportunities and implements projects that help improve the business by streamlining work
• Strong sponsor for the problem solving efforts and solutions offered by other shifts and teams
• Coordinates and provides leadership to complex maintenance planning including shutdown
• Maintains process equipment by developing and completing PM's, installing new equipment, documenting work using (SAP) and other duties as requested by the Coach or Mechanical Services Engineer
• Routinely provides technical guidance and maintenance/process training to others
• Participating in new equipment/replacement installations by interfacing with equipment vendors and recommending spare parts, selecting lubrication processes and assisting process project engineers
• Assists with execution of automation, validation and additional testing
• Follows instructions for completion of job tasks | Completes written documentation of work achieved and completed
• Efficient and safe maintenance and repair of equipment using Hazardous Energy Control Procedures (HECPs)
• Compliance with current good manufacturing procedures(cGMP), safety and environmental requirements/regulations/guidelines
• Follow complex instructions and use company business systems (SAP, ADP eTime, etc.)
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and advance several tasks in parallel | Satisfactorily compete all types of industrial mechanical work

Work Environmental Requirements

• Able to lift 50 lbs., climb ladders and stairs, work on platforms and equipment above floor level, walking, bending, crawling and stooping
• Required to wear personal protective equipment including safety glasses, earplugs, gloves, hard hats, safety harnesses, etc.
• Aseptic gowning during performance of job duties
• Vaccinated/blood tested for titer for products manufactured within the facility if needed

Schedule

• Day Shift | Twelve Hour Rotation from 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM (2-2-3)2 Days On | 2 Days Off | 3 Days On | Includes Weekends and Holidays
• Support an on-call schedule to include days, nights and weekends on a rotational basis with other Team Members

Education

• Required | High School diploma or GED
• Preferred | Technical School Diploma or Associate degree

Experience | Skills | Knowledge

Required

• Four years of equipment maintenance or related experience
• Motivational and effective communication skills helping to ensure that all shifts of assigned team are well informed and working at optimum efficiency
• Knowledge installing, repairing and maintaining mechanical related equipment throughout a manufacturing environment
• Principled verbal and written communications
• Proficient in the use of general hand and power tools, instruments and testing apparatus common to the electronic, mechanical and instrumentation fields
• Demonstrated mechanical aptitude
• Ability to read P&ID's, electrical drawings, blueprints, etc.
• Experience working in a clean room or GMP/regulated manufacturing environment
• Computer fluency, including thorough knowledge of DeltaV

NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS
In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.

If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor. #VETJOBS #EBRG MSJR TechnicianDurham

Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:
No

Travel Requirements:
No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:
On-Site

Shift:
1st - Day

Valid Driving License:
No

Hazardous Material(s):
None

Requisition ID:R252187