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The Role
Perform maintenance, calibration, troubleshooting, and installation on mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and automated systems in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment. Follow SOPs, cGMP, and safety procedures, read schematics/blueprints, coordinate with production to minimize downtime, train and support junior technicians, and implement process improvements.
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Use Your Power for Purpose
Whether you are involved in the design and development of manufacturing processes for products or supporting maintenance and reliability, engineering is crucial to ensuring customers and patients receive the medicines they require when they need them. By collaborating with our forward-thinking engineering team, you'll contribute to delivering medicines to the world more swiftly by envisioning new possibilities and taking decisive action.
What You Will Achieve
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements):
Work Location Assignment: On Premise
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers .
Engineering
Whether you are involved in the design and development of manufacturing processes for products or supporting maintenance and reliability, engineering is crucial to ensuring customers and patients receive the medicines they require when they need them. By collaborating with our forward-thinking engineering team, you'll contribute to delivering medicines to the world more swiftly by envisioning new possibilities and taking decisive action.
What You Will Achieve
- Take responsibility for individual contributions to team deliverables, representing the work group within department teams, and fostering a positive team environment.
- Manage personal time and professional development, prioritize workflow, and assist less-experienced colleagues in prioritizing their tasks.
- Complete various assignments based on established procedures, identify process improvements, troubleshoot issues, and provide direction and training to team members.
- Share knowledge within and across multiple work groups, and proactively resolve non-routine problems by making informed decisions.
- Work under general supervision, independently handle recurring assignments, and refer new or unusual problems to the supervisor.
- Ensure non-standard work is reviewed for sound technical judgment, and hold oneself accountable to Pfizer standards, guidelines, and values, while training others.
- Adhere to safety procedures, job safety analysis (JSA), and safe work permits, ensuring compliance with plant safety programs.
- Coordinate maintenance and project activities with production personnel to minimize downtime, and understand general shop safety practices.
- Ensure utility activities comply with SOPs, cGMP, and other regulatory practices, and read and follow equipment schematics, blueprints, and engineering drawings.
- Perform calibration of production and facility equipment, use electrical testing equipment safely, analyze and resolve equipment problems, instruct other technicians, and design and install electrical sensors or control systems.
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
- High School Diploma or GED
- 4+ years of experience
- Certification in the assigned area if applicable
- Course work or equivalent experience in electromechanical technology
- Solid understanding of basic mathematics and general trades such as construction, electrical, and machine shop
- Ability to perform a range of maintenance tasks involving mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and automated systems
- Proficiency in computer skills
- Good written and verbal English communication skills
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements):
- Bachelor's Degree
- Pharmaceutical and/or Bio-Pharmaceutical experience
- Knowledge of Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) operations
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Excellent organizational skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Familiarity and basic understanding of common AI tools and a curiosity for learning how they can be used to enhance productivity
Work Location Assignment: On Premise
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers .
Engineering
Skills Required
- High School Diploma or GED
- 4+ years of experience
- Certification in the assigned area if applicable
- Coursework or equivalent experience in electromechanical technology
- Understanding of basic mathematics and general trades (construction, electrical, machine shop)
- Ability to perform maintenance on mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and automated systems
- Proficiency in computer skills
- Good written and verbal English communication skills
- Bachelor's Degree
- Pharmaceutical and/or Bio-Pharmaceutical experience
- Knowledge of Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) operations
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Excellent organizational skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Familiarity and basic understanding of common AI tools
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Pfizer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple U.S. medical plan options include telehealth, comprehensive mental‑health support, fertility/family‑building benefits, transgender‑inclusive coverage, and certain Pfizer medications at no cost. A Wellbeing Wallet and wellness resources broaden the health and wellbeing offering.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company matching is paired with an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, alongside company‑paid life and disability insurance. One‑on‑one financial planning support is provided through Fidelity.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off spans vacation, holidays, and personal days, with additional caregiver and medical leave. U.S. parental leave commonly includes 12 weeks paid with options for additional unpaid bonding time and a return‑to‑work transition.
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The Company
What We Do
Our purpose ensures that patients remain at the center of all we do. We live our purpose by sourcing the best science in the world; partnering with others in the healthcare system to improve access to our medicines; using digital technologies to enhance our drug discovery and development, as well as patient outcomes; and leading the conversation to advocate for pro-innovation/pro-patient policies.
Why Work With Us
We are the inventors, the problem solvers, the big thinkers — those who surmount any hurdle to deliver breakthrough medicines to the people who are counting on them the most.
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