Maintenance Mechanic 2 - 1st Shift
PCI Pharma Services
Summary
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.
Job description
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, gaining support through one's own actions, examples, or persuasion in an ethical manner.
- Define, diagnose, and resolve problems, including 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 prevent 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 5S 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 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.
Requirements
- 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 operate common computer programs
- Minimum professional proficiency in speaking and reading
- High reasoning: ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions provided in various forms
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible spending account
- 401(k)
- Annual performance bonus
Company overview
PCI Pharma Services is a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that provides comprehensive pharmaceutical supply chain solutions to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies worldwide. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the company has established itself as a trusted partner in the healthcare industry, offering integrated services that span the entire drug development lifecycle. PCI specializes in drug development support, clinical trial supply management, contract drug manufacturing, sterile and non-sterile drug product packaging, and global pharmaceutical logistics. With a global footprint encompassing 30 GMP-compliant facilities across multiple continents, the company serves as a strategic partner that follows the molecule from early development through commercial launch. PCI's expertise enables clients to accelerate time-to-market while ensuring regulatory compliance and quality standards. The company's comprehensive service portfolio includes analytical services, formulation development, commercial manufacturing, packaging, supply chain management, and distribution, making it a one-stop solution for pharmaceutical companies seeking to outsource their development and manufacturing needs.