Maintenance Engineering Technician

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies.

Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients— that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.

As a member of the Maintenance Engineer team you will play a key role in providing technical and solving support by maintaining and repairing automated production equipment. You will be a key member of team that reduces equipment downtime, maintains all production molds, and ensure production schedules are met. All of our maintenance engineer technicians are play a critical role in the plant by performing preventative and predictive maintenance to ensure equipment availability.

In Mountain Home, our Maintenance Engineer Technicians are driven by challenge and the opportunity to see and do something new. We are always ready to tackle a project and work hard to solve problems. Committed to those around us, we rely on team members and trust them to deliver on the tasks at hand demonstrating the technical expertise that they have.

The manufacturing environment that our Manufacturing Technicians collaborate in is a 24/7 operation, but we find ways to balance work and life through good communication and trust with others. There are a lot of industries that we could be working in but Vantive’s mission to save and sustain lives is inspiring and motivating to us. We value opportunities to lead or mentor others but also enjoy moving laterally to learn new things and advance our own domain expertise.

This team specifically focuses on maintaining equipment and reliability in our injection molding department.

To do our work well requires the efforts of many individuals who all bring their technical expertise and experience problem solving in a collaborative way. We provide opportunities for you to continue to learn through various trainings, conferences, certifications, and support for advanced degrees.

• Performs maintenance on automated production machinery to reduce equipment downtime and meet production schedules.
• Performs preventive and predictive maintenance as required to ensure equipment availability.
• Focus on process and equipment improvement and innovation.
• Solid grasp of regulatory and documentation procedures for initiating and fully implementing new manufacturing processes and equipment, or modification to those already in use with minimum supervision.
• Works closely with production, quality, engineering, drafting, purchasing and suppliers to provide support for plant operations and capital projects.
• Investigate root cause technical issues and work alone or in a team to mitigate the issues.
• Seek out opportunities for improvement for the company, the plant, co-workers, and his/herself. Actively engages and empowers others while continuing to improve their own skills. While having a broad technical knowledge, it’s not unusual for a MMT to have specialized skills.
• Lead contractors with little engineering support on projects.
• Train new Maintenance Technicians in all aspects of their job. They will also help develop them in project management skills.
• Self-educate and participate in implementing innovative maintenance/manufacturing practices.
• Drives innovation and develop sophisticated solutions for engineering design challenges.
• Perform engineering functions regularly to support plant goals.
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