Maintenance Technician

Job Summary

As a Senior Maintenance Technician at Edwards Lifesciences, you will provide technical manufacturing support to Operations and Engineering teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in preventive and corrective maintenance, with the ability to troubleshoot manufacturing equipment and moderate knowledge of automated equipment, air conditioning systems, and chillers.

Key Responsibilities

- Perform weekly preventive maintenance routines for equipment to avoid program downtime.
- Conduct root cause analysis and perform corrective actions to affected areas that have downtime, including writing impact assessment reports of incidents.
- Execute experiments and tests (following protocols) to develop findings for the validation and improvement of equipment and manufacturing processes/methods based on engineering principles; analyze results, make recommendations, and develop reports for Engineering review.
- Review documentation and take appropriate actions to ensure that information is appropriately catalogued and follow through to validation and qualification of equipment, including transferring information to appropriate locations, e.g., ECRs, SOPs, drawings, and tooling, for Engineering approval.
- Identify potential improvement opportunities and propose solutions to optimize equipment, e.g., re-design/design of basic equipment, tools, fixtures, for Engineering review.
- Troubleshoot basic manufacturing equipment.
- May lead small projects related to new equipment validation, equipment investigations, testing, objective evidence of product dispositions and rework.
- Utilize manufacturing software (e.g., JDE, QMS, PLM) to update documentation in systems.
- Provide coaching and guidance to technicians.

Requirements

- Technical degree in Industrial Maintenance, Electronics, Electrical, Mechanical, Electromechanical, Engineering, or diploma in related fields.
- More than 5 years of experience in preventive and corrective maintenance for production equipment, ability to troubleshoot manufacturing equipment and moderate knowledge of automated equipment, air conditioning system, and chillers. Required
- In addition, experience in manufacturing and medical device industry or related. Required

Additional Skills

- Ability to coordinate the execution of preventive maintenance routines for equipment.
- Good written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and relationship building skills.
- Ability to read, comprehend, and write English.
- Problem-solving methodology, root cause analysis, and GDP (Good Documentation Practices).
- Moderate knowledge of automated equipment.
- Ability to troubleshoot manufacturing equipment.
- Knowledge of routine preventive maintenance of production equipment.
- Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, electronic, pneumatic, and controls.
- Strict attention to detail.
- Must be able to work under limited supervision.

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