Help us automate and maintain our future. Get ready for a job that encourages you to think strategically yet stay connected with your teams. Do you have problem-solving or strategy experience? If so, prepare to innovate, create, and inspire. The Maintenance and Controls Engineer (Automation Engineering Lead Analyst) is primarily responsible for providing first-level electrical and process Controls support for a highly automated pharmaceutical filling and packaging system.  Perform emergency, corrective, and preventive maintenance activities to restore equipment.   In addition, key responsibilities will involve implementing equipment and system upgrades, engineering change controls, and continuous improvements. The position will support equipment installations, upgrades, or equipment expansions.  Automation engineer also trains, mentors, and supports the development of other team members

Responsibilities

Performs advanced level maintenance and service on automated equipment by using and understanding electrical, mechanical, and pneumatic drawings and schematics, and using special test equipment and tools.  

Maintains reliability of the pharmacy automation equipment by executing preventive, corrective, and emergency work orders.         

Troubleshoot, service, install and repair automated production equipment, to include equipment modifications, upgrades, and spare parts inventory

Utilizes knowledge and skill to monitor and improve the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of the electro-mechanical equipment, and supporting application software systems.         

Observe system for degraded performance using routine inspections, maintenance rounds, and diagnostic equipment.

Use a computerized maintenance management system (MAXIMO) to record labor hours, repair parts, and monitor pharmacy equipment performance.

Recommend alterations to developers and designers to improve the quality or performance of processes and/or machines.   

Interpret the output of the reporting systems and take appropriate action that will result in the removal of the root cause problem from the system on a permanent basis.         

Document all emergency, corrective, and preventive maintenance work via work orders associated with Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS - MAXIMO).         

Operates on-site in an on-call capacity.

Qualifications

High School diploma; Associates' degree preferred.

Associate’s degree in Industrial Maintenance or related technical field or 2 - 4 years of maintenance experience in an industrial setting preferred.

Experience working in high-volume production or pharmaceutical environment.

Experience in troubleshooting complex PLC/computer-operated electro-mechanical equipment; PLC’s, I/O, and field devices; repairing, setting up, adjusting, and tuning mechanical systems and pneumatic systems.

Experience using all tools and procedures needed to repair precision electro-mechanical machinery successfully the first time.

Experience using preventive and predictive maintenance techniques.

Experience using Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) to report and follow up on maintenance procedures and work orders.

Flexibility to occasionally work outside of normal shift hours, including occasional weekends, as needed to satisfy operational requirements in support of customer demand.

Minimal travel to other ESI facilities or vendor sites is possible.

Shift - Tuesday through Friday (10:00 AM - 6:00 PM) and Saturday (4:00 AM - 12:00 PM).

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About Evernorth Health Services

Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

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