Process Maintenance Apprentice

Job Summary

Our Manassas, Virginia site is a part of the Consumer Health division and provides expanded capabilities in soft chews and lozenges. With extensive development and manufacturing expertise and a wide range of flavors, ingredients, and colors available, we can work with complex formulations to help create engaging new products consumers will love.

Work Schedule: 1st shift, Monday to Friday
Location: 100% based on-site in Manassas, VA

• Assist experienced maintenance technicians with basic preventive and mechanical maintenance tasks, equipment repairs, and small-scale process improvement projects to develop foundational skills.
• Support the preparation of machine foundations and learn to grind, file, and fit machinery parts under supervision.
• Assist with the construction and installation of equipment such as shafting, conveyors, and tram rails while gaining hands‑on installation experience.
• Help safely transfer equipment to designated maintenance areas to prevent contamination and ensure compliance with safety standards.
• Maintain good housekeeping practices in mechanical and facility areas to promote a safe and organized work environment.
• Support the cleanliness and organization of the repair shop, maintenance office, storage areas, and all related tools, supplies, and materials.
• Learn and adhere to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Food Safety Plans (HACCP), and Food Quality Plans (FQP) as part of technical development.
• Actively participate in scheduled training modules and classroom instruction to build technical knowledge and meet apprenticeship milestones as established by management.
• Perform other related duties as assigned to support learning objectives and overall maintenance operations.

• Requires a High School Diploma or GED.
• Demonstrated mechanical aptitude and interest in the skilled trades, supported by prior coursework, technical training, or hands‑on experience (such as automotive work, equipment repair, HVAC, fabrication, or similar mechanical hobbies).
• Willingness and ability to learn the safe use of a wide variety of tools, equipment, and industrial machinery under the guidance of experienced technicians.
• Strong commitment to developing technical competencies throughout the apprenticeship, including reading and interpreting electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, and vendor documentation; gaining foundational skills in pipe fitting, plumbing, welding, and fabrication; learning to program and troubleshoot Allen‑Bradley PLCs and HMIs; running conduit and wiring electrical control panels in accordance with NEC guidelines; and diagnosing issues across various tools and equipment.
• Commitment to successfully complete the apprenticeship program and remain employed with Catalent for a minimum of one year following program completion.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 1000 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to walk and stand; frequently talk or hear; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to sit, taste or smell.

• Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on D&I.
• Potential for career growth within an expanding team.
• Diverse, inclusive culture.
• 152 hours of PTO + 8 Paid Holidays.

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life‑saving and life‑enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market.

Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.

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