Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information:

As part of the Drug Product Division (DPD), the Greenville, North Carolina site is a multi-purpose pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, and packaging campus. The operation specializes in taking both sterile injectable and oral solid dose drug products from development phase through to commercialization.

How Will You Make an Impact?

Provide operational and maintenance support of high-pressure boilers, high purity water systems, and utility systems on a continuous basis to meet plant requirements.

A Day in the Life:

• Operate and maintain boiler systems, and all related physical plant equipment, including condenser water (cooling tower) and air compressors, air dryers, Potable water and chilled water systems, per SOPs, cGMPs, and user department requirements.
• Operate and maintain High Purity Water systems- including WFI, PFW, generated by Ros and Distillation units
• Monitor performance through computer controls and reviewing recorded operating data. Resolve issues to ensure continuous operations and communicate status, including failures/corrective actions and readiness to management.
• Maintain housekeeping services in utilities areas and communicate concerns.
• Work Rotational shifts including days, nights, weekends, holidays and some non-scheduled days.

Rotation is -4-night shift- 3 off- 3 days- 1 off- 3 nights- 4 days- 7 off-

Education:

High school diploma or equivalent required.

Associate’s in applied science in related field – not required but preferred.

Experience:

Required: Minimum of 2 years of work experience in plant equipment operation including boiler operations, air compressors, or related field

Preferred: Experience in a cGMP environment

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Skilled in problem analysis, planning and organization.
• Strong attention to detail, oral and written communication skills.
• Proficient in the use of highly technical diagnostic and test equipment.
• Reading and comprehension of blueprints, manuals and training materials.
• General trades’ knowledge, i.e. HVAC, electrical, mechanical tasks, etc.

Physical Requirements / Work Environment

Work in mechanical spaces which may not be climate controlled and outside work is required at times.

Wear gowning which includes gloves, hair & beard net and face cover, safety glasses with no makeup / jewelry, and the like.

Use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and understand chemical hygiene.

Infrequently lift and manipulate up to 25 pounds max unassisted.

Stand and move about including reaching, bending, stooping, grasping.

Use hand tools and equipment including forceful gripping, grasping, pushing and pulling.

Position requires ordinary ambulatory skills and physical coordination sufficient to move about office locations; ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch periodically for prolonged periods of time; manipulation (lift, carry, move) of light to medium weights of 10-35 pounds.

Ability to climb ladders and work at heights.