SENIOR MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

About Us :

At STERIS Applied Sterilization Technologies (AST), We are One Team with One Goal. Through a network of?nearly 60 facilities globally, STERIS AST has been committed to patient safety by providing contract sterilization services to the medical device, pharmaceutical, consumer, and industrial communities for over 50 years.

Our sterilization services ensure the safety of those who use these products, including our families, our friends, and ourselves.

As a Senior Maintenance Technician at STERIS, you'll provide hands-on expertise in troubleshooting and performing preventative maintenance on equipment and facilities.

You'll complete both scheduled and unscheduled repairs, ensuring proper record management. Additionally, youll enforce safety practices, guide and train other technicians, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Youll have the opportunity to tackle complex projects to make an impact in improving operations. The starting pay is $35.

00 an hour, with potential for a higher rate based on experience. Youll begin on day shift for an approximately 6-month training period, after which you will transition to a night shift role.

The position includes paid overtime, shift differential, annual bonus and incentives, and a rotational on-call schedule.

What you will do with us :

The position of Senior Maintenance Technician is a hands-on position, that provides technical expertise and oversees and participates in the maintenance, repair, and improvement of facility equipment in a validated cGMP environment.

This equipment includes machinery, buildings, computer systems, control systems, safety and security systems (hereinafter referred to as Equipment).

He / She is also responsible for multiple highly complex major projects and processes requiring innovative original solutions.

Additionally, this position includes responsibility for maintaining shop tools, inventory, and keeping the departments CMMS (computerized maintenance management system) updated.

The position must be proficient in the requirements of the Technician Maintenance and Project Technician positions and may be required to provide training to the technicians in these roles.

The position shall support management including providing guidance to other maintenance staff and help promote a Lean team environment.

This position will also be required to support after hours emergency response activities on an as needed basis. Depending on the modality in which this role operates (i.

e. Gamma), this is a physical role requiring strength and endurance.

Performs technical troubleshooting on a variety of modalities, technologies, and locations. Performs regularly scheduled preventative maintenance on high volume, validated processing equipment.

Reviews preventative maintenance tasks for effectiveness and frequency and recommends any continuous improvement changes or Lean practices for implementation to management.

Plans and coordinates resources and materials for any planned and unplanned repairs of the Equipment and ensures all documentation for planned and unplanned Equipment maintenance is completed properly and entered the departments Computerized Maintenance Management System.

This will include initiating change control documentation for changes to validated processes.

• Adheres to, trains on, and enforces safety practices such as Lockout / Tagout and proper use of PPE by him / herself and by other technicians in the department.
• Recommends skills improvement training for his / herself and / or other technicians in the department that will improve the skill set needed to improve equipment performance and provides training to other team members as needed.
• As a member of the Lean facility team this person seeks ways to improve the companys safety systems and applications, equipment performance and cost savings and works with management on implementation.
• Provides training, support, and guidance to other maintenance staff and directs outside contractors on facility maintenance tasks
• Ensures Equipment calibrations are performed on time using established procedures, and promptly notifying management in the event an anomaly is discovered.
• Can be available to respond to maintenance calls off shift if assistance is needed and must be available for overtime as needed.

Acts as a back-up in the absence of the Maintenance Manager.

Contributes in a team effort by performing in accordance to all STERIS policies, GMP, Lean principles and other directives;

supports the directives and decisions of higher-level management and performs other duties as assigned

How you will learn your role :

Review work instructions along with vital policies and procedures

Take part in on-the-job training, overseen by your Hiring Manager

Demonstrate ability to meet the requirements of the job

Education Degree

• High School Diploma or GED
• Associate's Degree

You'll be a great fit if you can :

Be dependable and reliable

Be a collaborative team player

Be attentive to detail

Reasons you'll love working here :

This is an opportunity to join a company that will invest in you for the long-term. STERIS wouldnt be where it is today without our incredible people, who take true pride in their work.

Thats why we share in our success together by rewarding employees for their hard work. We do this by providing competitive base salary plus bonus (as applicable), comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, paid PTO and holidays, 401K with company match.

STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention.

WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare, life sciences and dental products and services.

STERIS is a $5 billion, publicly traded (NYSE : STE) company with approximately 17,000 associates and Customers in more than 100 countries.

If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047 . This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law.

We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.

The full affirmative action program, absent the data metrics required by 60-741.44(k), shall be available to all employees and applicants for employment for inspection upon request.

The program may be obtained at your locations HR Office during normal business hours.