Maintenance Technician

About Us:

At STERIS Applied Sterilization Technologies (AST), we are a global leader in providing contract sterilization services, ensuring the safety and effectiveness of medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products. With over 50 years of experience and nearly 60 facilities worldwide, our work is focused on safeguarding the well-being of patients, consumers, and our communities. We pride ourselves on being a collaborative, innovative team committed to making a difference. Whether you're maintaining critical equipment or supporting facility operations, your contributions directly impact the safety of products used by millions of people, including our friends, families, and ourselves.

As a 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, you'll enforce safety practices and support continuous improvement initiatives. You'll have the opportunity to tackle complex projects to make an impact in improving operations. The starting pay is $28.00 an hour, with potential for a higher rate based on experience. You'll 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 Maintenance Technician is a hands-on position, that provides technical expertise and participates in the maintenance, repair, and preventive maintenance of facility equipment to reduce downtime while increasing operational efficiency in a validated, cGMP environment. This equipment includes machinery, buildings, computer systems, control systems, safety, and security systems. Additionally, this position includes responsibility for maintaining shop tools, inventory, and keeping the department’s CMMS (computerized maintenance management system) updated all while adhering to Lean and 5S principles. This position will also be required to support after hours emergency response activities on an as needed basis. In addition, this position assists with the development and maintaining of parts inventory systems. 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.

• Optimizes processing and reduces downtime by performing predictive and preventative maintenance on all equipment, machinery and facility buildings; participating in the installation of new equipment as required; maintaining electrical system, including facility lighting by installing and repairing wiring and 
• fixtures; and performing general maintenance tasks, including landscaping, painting, and carpentry.
• Contributes to maintaining a safe, secure and clean workplace by conducting the daily, weekly, quarterly and semi-annual safety/maintenance inspections according to pre-established guidelines and schedules; completes related paperwork in a timely and accurate manner to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards, while adhering to all safety procedures, including Lock-Out/Tag-Out (LOTO), following Safety Data Sheets (SDS), and complying with all environmental requirements for waste and disposal.
• Contributes to production efficiency by completing shift work in a timely manner as well as responding to off shift maintenance calls on a 24hour rotating on-call responsibility as assigned. Maintaining a spare parts program, and either repairing or deferring action for immediate supervisor decision.
• Maintains building climate by installing, repairing, servicing, or performing preventative maintenance on HVAC (Heating, ventilation, air-conditioning) systems.
• Strives for continuous improvement by analyzing new or alternative ways to improve operations, monitoring production efficiency, incorporating staff recommendations into analysis, responds to audit activities in a constructive manner and uses findings to improve operations where possible.
• Continuously maintains mechanical and technical skills, knowledge, and abilities required for the position. by attending workshops, reviewing trade publications, participating in training and training others to conduct minor, basic repairs to equipment, machinery, etc., completing necessary certification and re-certification requirements.
• 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

You will 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 wouldn’t be where it is today without our incredible people, who take true pride in their work. That’s 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.