Shift Maintenance Engineer - Instrumentation (Downstream)

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Vizag, Vishākhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
Hybrid
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Biotech • Pharmaceutical
We’re in relentless pursuit of breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.
The Role
As a Shift Maintenance Engineer, you will perform maintenance and reliability tasks on plants and equipment, manage work orders, support engineering planning, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. You will also handle troubleshooting and installation of instruments, and maintain documentation in alignment with Good Manufacturing Practices.
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Why Patients Need You
Whether you are involved in the design and development of manufacturing processes for products or supporting maintenance and reliability, engineering is vital to making sure customers and patients have the medicines they need, when they need them. Working with our innovative engineering team, you'll help bring medicines to the world even faster by imagining what's possible and taking action.
What You Will Achieve
Your technical skills will help us keep our plants, utility systems, buildings and equipment up and running. Pfizer will rely on you for maintenance, redesign, repair of utilities in our plants. In your role, you will undertake the necessary preventive and corrective steps for setting priorities, forecasting and allocating resources for the maintenance tasks.
As an associate, your focus on the job will contribute in achieving project tasks and goals. Through your domain knowledge and commitment, you will create a collaborative teaming environment for your colleagues.
It is your hard work and commitment that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.
How You Will Achieve It

  • Contribute to the completion of project milestones and organize own work to meet project task deadlines.
  • Support Engineering team in planning and overseeing the preventative maintenance for filling equipment.
  • Manage the status of work control and backlog for work order submission to work order completion.
  • Support maintenance work management and the installation, commissioning, qualification of equipment.
  • Contribute to continuous process improvements initiatives.
  • Provide input to capital project design with respect to equipment selection and specifications that create project approaches which minimize life cycle costs.
  • Follow up and communicates schedule to all resources, i.e. maintenance, production, outside services, stores and engineering.
  • Responsible for pest control management in compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (also cGMP) and Pfizer internal requirement.
  • Manage all the utility document and drawings and ensure all of them are sorted and archived properly.
  • Ensure that supporting Good Manufacturing Practices (also cGMP) relevant documentation is generated and maintained.
  • Execution of the below equipment maintenance activities related to instrumentation but not limited to
  • Downstream (Packing lines, Stopper processing, Autoclaves and visual inspection lines) Preventive Maintenance, Breakdown maintenance, production (line set up activities and monitoring) Support.
  • New equipment installation and commissioning activities
  • Decommissioning activities
  • QC and Microbiology equipment maintenance and trouble shootings
  • Effective communication with original equipment manufacturer to address / resolve the repetitive issues.
  • Coordinate with Production to undertake Maintenance requests
  • Attend to breakdowns, troubleshoot and rectify basic issues
  • Should act with Integrity in each and every activity.
  • Should raise concerns and encourage colleagues to report Integrity issues
    Extending required support during Walkthroughs, Internal Audits & Regulatory Audits.
  • Prepare and ensure availability of working drawings for any activity performed at site.
    Prepare Equipment installation drawings and ensure the installation of the equipment as per the same
    Preparation/Drafting of procedures
    After Completion of Preventive Maintenance and Corrective Maintenance, ensuring all the data is captured in CMMS.
  • Knowledge of commonly used equipment and machines in pharmaceutical industry
  • Experience in implementing standardization procedures and processes
  • Conversant with Validation aspects like URS / FAT / SAT /DQ / IQ / OQ / PQ
  • Knowledge of preventive and breakdown maintenance
  • Should have Knowledge on Installation, Operation and Maintenance of process/packing machines
  • Should be conversant with Validation Documents, Preventive Maintenance Schedules / PM check sheets, SOPs & Various Audit Procedures
  • Maintenance and troubleshooting of PLCs, DCS, SCADA, VFD and various electronic field instruments and sensors.
  • PMS (Particle Monitoring System) and controls.
  • Good Understanding in control disciplines such as Advanced Process Control (APC), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Variable Frequency Drives(VFD)
  • knowledge of preventive maintenance schedules/Task lists, SOPs and various audit procedures
  • Good Technical writing skills and Trouble shooting skills
  • Excellent Interpersonal, written and communication skills
  • Effective coordination with cross functional teams
  • Good Understanding of cGMP, GEP requirements along with local and international regulatory requirements
  • Knowledge on Clean room requirements and Regulatory Guidelines


Qualifications
Must-Have

  • B achelor's degree / Diploma in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering / Electrical and Electronics Engineering with specialization in Instrumentation
  • 4 plus years of hands-on experience in parentals (Injectables) process equipment and trouble shooting.
  • Demonstrated ability to write and provide simple and accurate instructions
  • Demonstrated computer and technical skills
  • Effective problem-solving capabilities
  • Excellent interpersonal communication and written skills


Nice-to-Have

  • Knowledge or experience working in a Good Manufacturing Practices {also cGMP} environment
  • Biopharma experience


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.
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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.

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