Maintenance Line Associate

Corning•Durham, NC

12d•$31 - $35•Onsite

About The Position

Corning is a leader in materials science, known for its innovation in glass, ceramics, and related materials. The Life Sciences segment specifically focuses on providing scientific laboratory products to aid researchers in drug discovery, aiming to increase efficiencies, reduce costs, and compress timelines. This role is crucial for maintaining and troubleshooting the processes and equipment essential for these operations.

Requirements

Associates Degree, Technical Certificate program or equivalent experience.
3-5 years manufacturing experience, with 2 years of responsibilities for equipment maintenance troubleshooting or equivalent military experience.

Responsibilities

Performs routine changeovers including lot changes, end of arm tooling changes, and mold changes.
Perform proper startup and shutdown procedures on equipment and verification of equipment status.
Assist operations team with routine line issues, resets, and restarts.
Completes required preventive maintenance at defined intervals. Routinely assesses the suitability of such intervals and scope covered and revises when necessary.
Trains and mentors other associates within maintenance and operations.
Monitor output quality and quantity; troubleshoot as needed to make necessary machine and parameter adjustments where applicable; and alleviate minor jams.
Troubleshoots equipment breakdowns and performs mechanical, pneumatic, and electrical maintenance whenever required to ensure uninterrupted customer supply.
Utilize available resources to diagnose and resolve equipment issues prior to escalation.
Assists with engineering activities in equipment modifications and improvements.
Process tuning equipment to meet or exceed quality expectations, within validated state.
Works with quality and operations to evaluate and address non-conformances, product quality defects, and other output issues. This includes verifying the correct set-up of machines and auxiliary equipment.
Works with hand tools and/or power tools while troubleshooting, conducting preventative maintenance (PM), or repairing equipment. Demonstrates safe techniques and proper use of all tools.
Uses inventory management systems to obtain replacement parts for corrective/ preventative maintenance, and proactive replacement efforts. Identifies and rectifies any discrepancies in inventory and future order needs.
Document all troubleshooting and maintenance activities in appropriate Computer Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).
Completes production records / forms recording relevant data onto forms or via electronic data entry in Maximo or other systems. Ensures accuracy and good documentation practices per company and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards. Communicates status of technical issues within the maintenance team and to operations team.
Maintain clean tooling for extruders, injection molding equipment, assembly equipment, and other manufacturing equipment.
Repairs, rebuilds, adjusts, inspects, and monitors production and/or facility related equipment and machinery.
Supports validations from a mechanical perspective.
Complies with safety systems and procedures such as Lock-Out/Tag-Out, NFPA-70 E Arc Flash, spills, and machine guarding at all times.
Responsible for hazardous waste removal.
Participates in Kaizen and Lean activities as necessary to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Performs other duties as required to meet the needs of the department and company.