Maintenance Mechanic Jobs for OPT Students

Position Title: Maintenance Mechanic 2

Location: Assembly, Rockford

Shift: Weekend B (Friday, Sat, & Sun; 9:00pm - 7:00am)

The Maintenance Mechanic’s duties include installing, troubleshooting, maintaining, and repairing equipment while following all work practices and procedures. Mechanics will ensure and help maintain a safe work environment while supporting the internal customer to achieve the site's business goals and objectives.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support the packaging lines by making routine and non-routine adjustments that ensure a high-quality product.
• Collaborate with other departments and other Maintenance Mechanics to obtain information or experience to keep lines running at an efficient rate.
• Perform preventive maintenance, changeovers, repairs, and running adjustments.
• Systematically gather information from a variety of sources, analyze the information, identify implications of data, draw appropriate conclusions, generate viable, alternative solutions to a question or problem, and evaluate the consequences of choosing each alternative.
• Assert personal ideas and opinions to convince others. This includes gaining others' support through one’s own actions, examples, or persuasion in an ethical manner.
• Define, diagnose, and resolve problems. This includes seeking, logically examining, and interpreting information from different sources to determine a problem's cause and developing a course of action to resolve the problem and to prevent its recurrence.
• Provide guidance to others by responding to questions; observing work activity; giving direction when necessary; and providing on-the-job training.
• Use a variety of hand tools and power tools to perform specific duties.
• Detect faulty operations, defective material, and report those and any unusual situation to proper personnel.
• Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and services.
• May require overtime and/or weekend work.
• May require use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR).
• Knowledge of and adherence to all PCI, cGMP, and GCP policies, procedures, rules.
• Prompt escalation to supervisor of any safety issue, quality issue, or downtime following the established escalation protocol.
• Perform Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) activities on packaging lines.
• Execute initiatives relating to OPEX objectives.
• Analyze equipment failures to improve overall reliability of the equipment, while maintaining productivity.
• Update setup documentation to ensure all settings are current and accurate.
• Work with The Business Units and Scheduling to accurately maintain a timeline for any launches or validations of products.
• Audit and maintain a high level of 5’s in the facility to help maintain a safe, organized, clean high-performing workplace.
• Document and drive actions for specific respected value stream.
• Audit the centerline document system to ensure sustainability and a high level of productivity.
• Attend Tier I Daily Directional Setting (DDS) meeting. Give feedback and follow-ups when outages occur from the centerline document.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

• Skill testing requirements met at approved grade level for position.
• Must have at least 2-3 years applicable maintenance experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment or 2-year Technical School.
• Basic Mathematical and computer skills. Ability to perform basic computer tasks and can operate common computer programs.
• Minimum professional proficiency: Ability to speak in a way that allows one to participate effectively in various conversations. Ability to read various types of standard items addressed to general readers.
• High reasoning: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where there is only limited standardization.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions that may be provided in various forms.

Preferred:

• Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner; work independently and/or as part of a team; hold oneself in a professional manner; demonstrate attention to detail; and drive for results.
• Packaging experience.

The hiring range for this position is $24.58 to $29.19/hour plus eligibility for an annual performance bonus. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including but not limited to specific and relevant experience, education, credentials, geography, and subject matter expertise. PCI offers full-time employees a competitive benefits package that includes paid time off, health insurance coverage (including dental and vision), flexible spending account, and 401(k).

Join us and be part of building the bridge between life changing therapies and patients.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement:

PCI Pharma Services is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, or any other protected status.

At PCI, Equity and Inclusion are at the core of our company’s purpose: Together, delivering life-changing therapies. We are committed to cultivating an inclusive workplace by holding ourselves accountable to the highest standards of understanding, fairness, respect, and equal opportunity – at every level. We envision a PCI community where everyone can belong and grow, and we strive to bring this vision to reality by continuously and intentionally assessing our people practices, policies and programs, marketing approach, and workplace culture.