Why Patients Need You

Whether you are involved in the design and development of manufacturing processes for products or supporting maintenance and reliability, engineering is vital to making sure customers and patients have the medicines they need, when they need them. Working with our innovative engineering team, you'll help bring medicines to the world even faster by imagining what’s possible and taking action.

What You Will Achieve

Working with Pfizer’s dynamic engineering team, you will play a critical part in managing the maintenance and reliability engineering activities involving the redesign, maintenance, and repair of utilities systems, buildings, and production/non-production equipment.

You are recognized as a subject matter expert with specialized knowledge and skills in procedures, techniques, tools, materials and equipment. You will be entrusted with adapting standard methods and procedures by applying your knowledge, prior work experience and requirements. Your business awareness of cross-organizational impact on project delivery will elevate the quality of project deliverables. You will arrive at decisions on which methods and procedures are the best fit for different work situations. You will train others and reinforce behaviors that will help us achieve our goal of providing the best healthcare to our patients.

How You Will Achieve It

Perform maintenance, changeovers, adjustments and repair of production and process equipment, the general facility, and utility equipment.
Participate in multicraft work activities as required.
Responsible for priority assessment and decision making as it relates to troubleshooting, diagnostics, and a proactive maintenance of systems and mechanical equipment in a cost-effective manner.
Participate in safety training programs and utilize tools, equipment etc. in a safe manner as per plant safety procedures.
Read and follow equipment schematics, logic diagrams and engineering drawings.
Use electrical testing equipment, including multimeters, clamp-on current meters, meggers etc. in a safe manner.
Make recommendations regarding improved machine performance.
Follow all SOP and (Current) Good Manufacturing Practices (part of GxP) requirements.
Provide customer training in the implementation of those systems in compliance with company standards and procedures, and government regulations (SOPs, GMPs, GLPs, PSM, etc.).
Responsible for providing input to performance assessment on team members.
Manage own time, professional development and accountable for own results.
Prioritize own workflow and may lead and allocate work of others and assist in establishing their priorities.

Qualifications

Must-Have

High School Diploma or GED

Relevant Experience:

4-6 years of experience troubleshooting and maintaining PLCs and/or DCSs
Maintenance Management System (CMMS, i.e. EAMS) - work order documentation
Preventative Maintenance programs
Troubleshooting - Root Cause Analysis
Supporting project work/ improvements

Automation Platforms:

PLC: Rockwell/Allen Bradley, Siemens
SCADA: i.e. PanelView SE/ME, Wonderware Intouch 9.5
DCS: Foxboro, DeltaV 12-14.3, Honeywell TDC3000
Data storage i.e. NAS, Historians

Maintaining/ Troubleshooting:

Ability to connect programming terminal to the control system
Read and troubleshoot I/O, ladder logic, control language, and SQL queries
Controlled System reboots & System Disaster recovery - Backup systems
Understand the concepts of data flow from the field device to the HMI/DCS and back to the final control element
User Account Management/ Password changes
Understanding & troubleshooting variable frequency drives, encoders, and their interaction with drive systems
Experience with Servo motors, Staubli, ABB, and Fanuc robots, servers, and virtual machines

Nice-to-Have

Journeymen's License/Electrical license
Associates degree preferred in electrical or engineering discipline
Experience in GMP environments and knowledge of cGMP policies and procedures
Working knowledge of Pharma Utility systems and operations

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Routinely exposed to hazardous materials, heights, temperature extremes, equipment in motion, dusty and dirty conditions, stooping, bending, and heavy lifting. Mustalso maintain aseptic gowning qualification/ability to gown into various grades of clean rooms.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

This position consists of a non-standard work schedule with a rotation of 8 consecutive working days on and 6 consecutive days off on 3rd shift.

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Physical requirements include a mix of shop floor work and desk work. May need to access various classifications of clean rooms, aseptic gowning training/qualification is required.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

This is a rotating 3rd shift schedule with 8 days on, 6 days off, with a mix of 8, 10 & 12 hour shifts. Overtime may be required at times based on business needs.

Relocation support available
Work Location Assignment: On Premise
The salary for this position ranges from $27,41 to $45,69 per hour. In addition, this position offers eligibility for overtime, weekend, holiday and other pay premiums depending on the work schedule and the Company’s policies. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided applies only to the United States - Michigan - Kalamazoo location.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Sunshine Act

Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.

EEO & Employment Eligibility

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.

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