Maintenance Mechanic 3 - 1st Shift (Linden Rd)

PCI Pharma Services•Rockford, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Mechanic duties include install, troubleshoot, maintain and repair equipment while following all work practices and procedures. Technicians will ensure and help maintain a safe work environment, while supporting the internal customer to achieve the sites business goals and objectives. This role supports the packaging lines by making routine and non-routine adjustments that ensure a high quality product. It involves collaborating with other departments, performing preventive maintenance, changeovers, repairs, and running adjustments. The position requires the ability to systematically gather and analyze information, identify implications, draw conclusions, generate solutions, and evaluate consequences. It also requires the ability to assert personal ideas and opinions ethically and to define, diagnose, and resolve problems. The mechanic provides guidance to others through responding to questions, observing work, giving direction, and providing on-the-job training. Leadership and cross-functional teamwork with Project Management, Planning, Engineering, and Production are critical for new product launches and ongoing production. The role focuses on OEE improvements (rate, yield, utilization) and efforts to minimize downtime, mitigate defects, and eliminate waste. Responsibilities include reading and interpreting equipment manuals and work orders, adhering to PCI, cGMP, and GCP policies, and performing other assigned duties. The company emphasizes an uncompromising focus on quality, operational excellence, and providing an industry-leading customer experience, achieved through its people. They aim to provide an authentic culture of purposeful work, intentional learning, real-life experience, and a fair, competitive rewards program, fostering a community where everyone can belong and grow.

Requirements

Skills testing requirements met at approved grade level for position.
Basic Mathematical Skills.
Basic Computer Skills: Ability to perform basic computer tasks and has the ability to 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.
High School Diploma and/or 3-5 years related experience and/or training.

Nice To Haves

Ability to effectively present information to various people as the job requires.
Ability to work independently and/or part of a team.
Ability to hold oneself in a professional manner.
Ability to demonstrate attention to detail.
Ability to drive for results.
2 year degree or Cert.
Ability to display excellent time management skills.

Responsibilities

Supports the packaging lines by making routine and non-routine adjustments that insures a high quality product.
Collaborate with other departments to obtain information or experience to keep lines running at an efficient rate.
Perform preventive maintenance, changeovers, repairs, and running adjustments.
The ability to 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.
The ability to 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.
The ability to define, diagnoses, 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.
Provides guidance to others by responding to questions; observing work activity; giving direction when necessary; and providing on-the-job training.
Leadership and cross-functional teamwork with Project Management, Planning, Engineering, and Production is critical to the success of new product launches and ongoing production.
OEE improvements should focus on rate, yield, and utilization. All efforts to minimize downtime, mitigate defects, and eliminate waste should be a priority.
Read interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and services.
This position 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.
Attendance to work is an essential function of this position.
Performs other duties as assigned by Manager/Supervisor.
Prompt escalation to supervisor of any downtime.
Preform Single Minute Exchange of Dies, (SMED) activities.
Execute initiatives relating to OPEX objectives.
Monitor, adjust, and provide technical expertise or training in order to meet or exceed Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) targets.
Assumes the responsibility and job functions of a supervisor, when supervisor is unavailable.
Attend and be active on problem definitions, counter measures for line performances at the Tier I (Daily Directional Setting meeting) and Tier II (Board meeting).
Document and drive actions for your respected value stream.
Audit the centerline document system to insure sustainability and a high level of productivity.
Audit and maintain a high level of 5’s in the facility to help maintain a safe, organized, clean high-performing workplace.
Attend Tier I Daily Directional Setting meetings and provide follow-up and feedback as needed.
Analyze equipment failures to improve overall reliability of the equipment, while maintaining productivity.
Update setup documentation to insure 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.