Associate - Equipment Maintenance

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Vizag, Vishākhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Biotech • Pharmaceutical
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The Role
As an Associate in Equipment Maintenance, you will ensure the operational reliability of our plants and utility systems by performing maintenance, repairs, and installations of process and packing machinery. You will collaborate with engineering teams on projects, manage preventive maintenance tasks, and ensure compliance with safety regulations and documentation. Your role contributes directly to production efficiency and patient care.
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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.
Graduate / Diploma Engineer in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering.
4-8 yrs of experience for Diploma engineers (4-6 yrs for Graduate engineers) in pharmaceuticals industry

  • Shall be responsible for Installation and efficient maintenance of process, Solution preparation & transfer systems and packing machinery in pharmaceutical industry
  • Coordination with CFTs in execution of FAT/SAT/DQ/IQ/OQ and PQ of all relevant equipment
  • Provide onsite support in start-up and commissioning of new equipment or upgrades to existing equipment
  • Prepare specifications for process and packing equipment
  • 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
  • Complete periodic inspections of the vendors site to check for the progress of manufacturing of the equipment
  • Study and review standby facilities for critical sub-assemblies and addition of capital equipment on long term basis for smooth operation
  • Contribute to continuous process improvements initiatives
  • Effective communication with original equipment manufacturer to address / resolve the repetitive issues.
  • Plan and execute preventive maintenance
  • Coordinate with Production to undertake Maintenance requests
  • Attend to breakdowns, troubleshoot and rectify basic issues in shortest possible time
  • Trend the breakdowns /concerns of the equipment and implement corrective actions to improve the reliability of the equipment.
  • Supporting in new/expansion/improvement projects
  • Execution of Spare Parts management
  • Supporting for the required reliability initiatives at Site
  • After Completion of Preventive Maintenance and Corrective Maintenance, ensuring all the data is captured in CMMS.
  • Supporting in new/expansion/improvement projects
  • To identify continuous improvement initiatives (process improvement, energy efficiency, etc.) and ensuring to implement them.
  • Trending equipment failures / breakdowns and propose corrective actions
  • Change Control Management
  • Handling any Deviations/Incidents
  • Preparation and Review of respective Documents
  • Extending required support during Walkthroughs, Internal Audits & Regulatory Audits.
  • Participate in and take responsibility for workplace environment, health and safety at the level required for this position, following the guidelines in the company Environmental, Health and Safety Management System Manual.
  • Ensure that all safety instructions and measures are strictly observed.
  • Conducting Safety Assessments
  • 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 and packing machines
  • Knowledge of preventive and breakdown maintenance
  • Should be conversant with Validation Documents, Preventive Maintenance Schedules / PM check sheets, SOPs & Various Audit Procedures
  • Knowledge on Clean room requirements, behavior, Good documentation work and Regulatory Guidelines
  • Knowledge on metrological standards
  • Documentation Preparation and review skills
  • Effective problem-solving capabilities
  • Excellent Interpersonal, written and communication skills
  • Effective coordination between departments


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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