Maintenance Mechanic 2 - 1st Shift

Position Title: Maintenance Mechanic 2
Location: Assembly, Rockford
Shift: 1st Shift (Monday‑Friday; 6:45 am – 3:00 pm)

About the role

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.

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. This includes gaining others' support through one's own actions, examples, or persuasion in an ethical manner.
• Define, diagnose, and resolve problems. This includes 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 to prevent its 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 personal.
• 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 5’s 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 insure 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

• 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 can 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