Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Pkg Equipment Maintenance Technician Thurs - Sat Days

Posted Sep 3, 2026

Role at a glance

Salary
Not Disclosed
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Work arrangement
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Experience
Required: Minimum of 1 year of work experience in a manufacturing, operations, production, lab setting or related field Preferred: Minimum of 1 year of experience in manufacturing maintenance, automotive, HVAC, or a related field. Preferred: Experience in a cGMP environment
Education
High school diploma or equivalent required.

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Role Summary

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The Packaging Equipment Maintenance Technician supports packaging-line equipment setup, changeovers, startups, and ongoing operation. The role troubleshoots equipment issues, performs preventive maintenance, and helps maintain safe, efficient, and compliant packaging operations.

What You'll Do

  • Assist with equipment setup, startup, continuous operation, and packaging-line changeovers.
  • Troubleshoot equipment downtime and implement solutions to restore packaging operations.
  • Perform preventive maintenance and document maintenance activities in equipment files in compliance with SOPs and cGMP.
  • Validate and verify newly installed equipment under operating conditions, and assist with installation and modifications.
  • Identify and order equipment parts as needed, and develop work and setup instructions.
  • Participate in safety, quality, and efficiency problem-solving and implement solutions for packaging-line bottlenecks.

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Qualifications

High school diploma or equivalent; at least 1 year of work experience in a manufacturing, operations, production, lab setting, or related field. Ability to read equipment-related diagrams and documentation; interpersonal skills to communicate in a team environment; familiarity with Microsoft Office; ability to diagnose electrical control circuits and drives; availability for overtime and on-call work as needed.

Required

  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • Minimum of 1 year of work experience in a manufacturing, operations, production, lab setting, or related field.
  • Ability to read and understand piping and instrument diagrams, schematics, wiring diagrams, equipment assembly drawings, and other...
  • Interpersonal skills to communicate in a team environment.
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications.
  • Ability to work overtime and be available on-call as needed.
  • Ability to diagnose electrical control circuits and drives.

Preferred

  • Minimum of 1 year of experience in manufacturing maintenance, automotive, HVAC, or a related field.
  • Experience in a cGMP environment.
  • PLC experience is preferred but not required.

Original job description

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Work Schedule

12 hr shift/days

Environmental Conditions

Able to lift 40 lbs. without assistance, Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Cleanroom: no hair products, jewelry, makeup, nail polish, perfume, exposed piercings, facial hair etc... allowed, Loud Noises (Equipment/Machinery), No contact lens allowed; prescriptive glasses will be provided, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description

Shift: End of Weekday Shift
Shift Schedule: Thursday - Saturday, 6:00am - 6:30pm
Shift Differential: 10%


As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Discover Impactful Work:

  • Assist operators in equipment set-up, start-up, and continuous operation. Including but not limited to changeover of the production equipment related to format and serialization.

  • Build and write work instructions, setup instructions, preventative maintenance tasks.

  • Actively influence training of employees on various packaging equipment.

  • Assists operators, engineers, and supervisors with equipment installation, provide suggestions for modifications and continuous improvements!

  • Validate and verify operation of newly installed equipment to evaluate system performance under actual operation conditions.

  • Maintain equipment files and document maintenance activities in compliance of SOPs and Good Manufacturing Procedures (cGMP). Ensure compliance of Preventative Maintenance.

  • Identify and order equipment parts as needed.

  • Actively participates in problem-solving sessions with focus on safety, quality, and driving efficiency improvement actions! Analyze equipment, develop and implement solutions.

  • Active participant and recommend solutions to monthly safety, quality and efficiency meetings.

  • Work with Mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and 24-480v controls.
     

A Day in the Life:

  • Directly support change over and startups on packaging lines; working with equipment mechanic, electrical, vision and user interfaces

  • Responsible for troubleshooting and implementing immediately solutions when equipment experiences downtime to restore packaging operations.

  • Support safety and quality actions, execute PMs, identify and implement solutions for bottlenecks on the packaging lines.
     

Keys to Success:

Education

  • High school diploma or equivalent required.

Experience

  • Required: Minimum of 1 year of work experience in a manufacturing, operations, production, lab setting or related field

  • Preferred: Minimum of 1 year of experience in manufacturing maintenance, automotive, HVAC, or a related field.

  • Preferred: Experience in a cGMP environment
     

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

  • Ability to read/understand piping and instrument diagrams, schematics, wiring diagrams, equipment assembly drawings and other equipment related documentation.

  • Job may require wearing of NFPA 70E personal protective equipment as well as Tyvek coveralls and different styles of respirators.

  • Interpersonal skills to communicate in a team environment.

  • Be familiar with Microsoft Office applications.

  • Ability to work overtime as needed and be available on an on-call basis as needed. Mandatory may be required.

  • Knowledge of electrical: ability to diagnose control circuits, drives, PLC experience preferred but not required.
     

Physical Requirements / Work Environment

  • Be able to lift up to 40lbs individually.

  • Various gowning requirements and PPE such as dust mask.

  • Extended periods on feet. May require times working in tight equipment technical spaces.

  • Clean work environment.
     

What We Offer

Compensation

  • Competitive Pay

  • Performance Related Bonus where eligible

  • Annual merit performance-based increase
     

Excellent Benefits

  • Medical benefits

  • Paid Time Off/Annual Leave

  • Employee Referral Bonus

  • Career Advancement Opportunities

Thermo Fisher Scientific

About the company

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Large Enterprise

Thermo Fisher Scientific is a global leader in serving science, providing a wide range of analytical instruments, reagents, and software solutions for healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences research. With a commitment to innovation and quality, the company enables customers to make significant advancements in scientific discovery and healthcare diagnostics. Thermo Fisher operates in more than 50 countries and employs over 80,000 people, fostering a collaborative environment aimed at enhancing global health and safety. Through its broad portfolio of brands and technologies, the company plays a vital role in accelerating life-changing research and improving patient outcomes worldwide.