Utilities Technician – Stationary Engineer - West Point, Pennsylvania

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity with a rapidly growing pharmaceutical manufacturer? If so, then this is the opportunity for you!

Essential functions of the position include, but are not limited to the following:

FUNCTION:

Under the supervision of the Maintenance and Utilities Supervisor and direction of the maintenance team leader, operates, monitors, maintains, and responds to alarms of building utility systems including: water chillers, cooling towers, condenser water, high purity water treatment (softeners, de-ionizing and reverse osmosis units and stills), clean steam, building steam and condensate, compressed air and vacuum systems. Maintains logs, necessary paperwork, and completes documentation in a cGMP compliant fashion.

Documents work activities completely through work orders and daily labor record. Stationary engineers will perform maintenance on any equipment or facility which their skills support in a compliant quality manner. Stationary engineers are part of the Utilities Technician work group and will primarily share work assignments within their job grouping with no inherent or “system imposed” limits. Based on business needs, Utilities Technicians will perform maintenance activities including crossing between job groupings where skills are common.

Work assignments, buildings and equipment are not exclusive to any craft, job grouping, or employee. Position may include some responsibility for maintaining significant business systems (e.g. CMMS data, planning, procurement, and scheduling) including the authority to assign, coordinate, and maintain work for others.

EQUIPMENT:

• Compressors, pumps, electric generators, package boilers, distilled water stills, water cooling towers, deionized water units, reverse osmosis units, water softeners, clean steam generators, condensate, equipment, vacuum pumps, heating equipment, water chillers, chemical treatment and testing equipment, computer-aided control/management systems catalytic oxidizers, and all other equipment necessary for the operation of building utility systems.

DUTIES:

• Maintains proper pressures and temperature in the operation of heating and cooling equipment, including chillers, cooling towers, perimeter heat, reheat, etc. systems to meet variable load conditions.
• Maintains appropriate oil, glycol and cooling water parameters as required by utility systems.
• Chemically cleans heat exchangers and circulating systems, adhering to department safety requirements.
• Operates distilled water, deionized water, reverse osmosis, water softener, water pretreatment, and reheat systems.
• Troubleshoots and routinely maintains, regenerates, acid cleans, adds or changes resin, and disinfects these systems as necessary.
• Monitors capacity, adequacy of utility services, and quality to insure proper operation of this equipment. Adheres to cGMP requirements applicable to these systems.
• Maintains operation of high purity water systems to provide pressure, quantity, and quality in accordance with production and cGMP requirements.
• Insures proper operation of gauges/instrumentation (temperature, flow, conductivity, resistivity, pH, pressure, etc.) and changes recorder charts as necessary.
• Conducts daily tours of utility equipment and reports problems concerning instrumentation and control.
• Maintains records of operating details, including daily shift reports and logs, to provide shift-to-shift communications between both supervisory and stationary engineer personnel.
• Works with supervisory, engineering, and customer personnel to assure proper operation, maintenance and repair of utility equipment.
• Prepares utility equipment and systems for modifications and/or tie-ins performing necessary shutdowns and isolation of valves following safe hazardous energy control procedures.
• Returns systems to normal operation. Performs routine testing of water systems, cooling tower water, closed loop cooling and heating systems.
• Maintains necessary chemical treatment at specified parameters, e.g. level, pH, conductivity, etc.
• Performs necessary operation and maintenance checks to insure that building utility related systems are…