Facility Associate

summary

Performs routine maintenance tasks involving the maintenance, repair, installation of facility, utility and support equipment. 

 essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Completes all work in a professional manner consistent with all code and trade standards, as well as industry accepted safety and current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) regulations.
• Follows verbal and written instructions of supervisor or department manager.
• Maintains equipment cleanliness during all process operations so as not to jeopardize product quality and/or purity.
• Maintains work areas and equipment in a clean and orderly condition and follows prescribed safety regulations.
• Completes and documents detailed information pertaining to all corrective and routine preventive maintenance and scheduled performance evaluations for assigned equipment.
• Performs routine maintenance including, but not limited to, painting, drywall, cleaning, lubrication, filter changes, safety equipment checks as per company guidelines.
• Applies job skills and company's policies and procedures to complete tasks.
• Adheres to all cGMPs, compliance/regulatory mandates and quality requirements.
• Assists in identifying and implementing continuous improvement opportunities.
• Performs other related duties as assigned to meet departmental and Company objectives.

 KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES

• Ability to tear down and repair basic machine components (i.e., gears, bearings, shafts, chains, sprockets, pulleys, cams, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to read and comprehend equipment manuals and blueprints.
• Ability to effectively communicate problems and solutions with direct supervisor, peers and other department managers.
• Valid Driver's License to move between buildings.
• Must be able to read, comprehend and execute Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and instruction documents written in English.

 EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

• High school diploma or general education diploma (GED).
• Two years' experience in a maintenance environment or 
• Completion of related apprenticeship program or trade school for maintenance technologies. 

Work environment

 The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the individual is required to:

1. Stand, walk, sit, climb, balance, stoop or crouch, kneel, reach, push, pull, grasp, feel, talk, and hear.

1. Have clarity of vision at 20 feet or more and 20 inches or less with the ability to judge distance and space relationships, bring object into sharp focus and see up and down or to the right or left while fixed on a point. Must also have the ability to identify and distinguish colors.

1. Exert an amount of force continuously and/or up to 5 pounds of force frequently and/or up to 25 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 50 pounds of force rarely by utilizing a hand truck to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.

 The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an individual encounters while performing the essential functions of this job:

1. Sufficient noise to occasionally cause the individual to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.

1. Individual is in a proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current and exposure to chemicals.
2. Atmospheric conditions sometimes expose individual to dust, for which protective equipment is available.
3. Individual may be required to wear respiratory devices that include but are not limited to: Air Purifying Respirators (APR) which include half-face and full-face negative pressure respirators, hooded powered air purifying respirators, or Supplied Air Respirators (SAR), which include hooded or full face supplied air respirators.
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