Equipment Maintenance and Facilities Specialist-Juana Diaz, PR
Bayer
Summary
Involves leading and coordinating maintenance teams to ensure the safe and efficient operation of equipment and facilities. This role is responsible for overseeing maintenance activities, providing technical support during incidents, and ensuring compliance with safety standards. Trains staff, manages contractor activities, and adapts maintenance plans to minimize downtime while maximizing operational efficiency.
Job description
Your Tasks and Responsibilities
- Coordinate preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance for farm equipment, fleet vehicles, facilities, utilities, maintenance shops, and infrastructure
- Inspect equipment and facilities, troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and building-system problems, and provide practical technical guidance during repairs
- Establish work priorities and coordinate diesel mechanics, electricians, industrial mechanics, welders, facilities workers, contractors, vendors, and specialized service providers
- Verify repair quality, coordinate operational testing, and confirm that equipment and systems are safe and ready to return to service
- Coordinate farm-equipment and fleet inspections, maintenance, repairs, seasonal readiness, and lifecycle recommendations
- Support EHS-compliant maintenance execution, including safe-work planning, lockout/tagout, electrical safety, contractor safety, and stop-work authority
- Coordinate qualified electricians and electrical contractors and help ensure electrical work meets applicable NEC, permitting, testing, and documentation requirements
- Use Maintenance Connection to manage work orders, preventive-maintenance schedules, asset information, backlog, equipment history, downtime, and maintenance performance
- Coordinate contractors, technical scopes of work, repair estimates, parts, materials, purchase requests, and maintenance expenditures
- Analyze recurring failures, support root-cause analysis, and implement practical reliability and continuous-improvement actions
- Coordinate daily and weekly maintenance activities across company farms and operational sites while providing technical leadership without direct supervisory authority
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish, written and spoken
- Read and interpret technical documentation, procedures, safety requirements, drawings, manuals, and equipment information in English and Spanish
Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in a similar field
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, agricultural engineering, engineering technology, facilities management, industrial technology, or another closely related technical discipline
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish, written and spoken
- Read and interpret technical documentation, procedures, safety requirements, drawings, manuals, and equipment information in English and Spanish
- 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in a similar field
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, agricultural engineering, engineering technology, facilities management, industrial technology, or another closely related technical discipline
Benefits
- Health care
- Vision
- Dental
- Retirement
- PTO
- Sick leave
Company overview
Bayer AG is a global life science company with core competencies in healthcare and agriculture, operating as one of the world's leading pharmaceutical corporations. Founded in 1863 and headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, Bayer operates through three primary divisions: Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Health, and Crop Science. The company's pharmaceutical segment focuses on prescription products for cardiology, women's healthcare, oncology, hematology, and ophthalmology, with blockbuster drugs including Xarelto, Eylea, and Nubeqa. Bayer's Consumer Health division markets well-known over-the-counter brands such as Aspirin, Aleve, Claritin, and Bepanthen. The Crop Science division, strengthened by the acquisition of Monsanto, provides seeds, crop protection products, and digital farming solutions. With approximately 92,815 employees worldwide and operations in 80 countries, Bayer is committed to its mission of "Health for all, Hunger for none," driving innovation in medical treatments, agricultural productivity, and sustainable development. The company maintains a strong research and development pipeline, investing heavily in areas like precision medicine, artificial intelligence applications in healthcare, and sustainable agricultural technologies.