Maintenance Technician

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

Maintenance Technician 

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Maintenance Technician, are to: 

• Maintain company facilities and equipment across the warehouse, plant and field;
• Maintain an active inventory of parts, supplies and tools to complete needed repairs and meet availability expectations;
• Coordinate and schedule service / maintenance work;
• Conduct and complete maintenance on company facilities and equipment;
• Maintain company facilities and equipment to enhance value, usefulness, and provide a safe working environment;
• Be responsible for needs assessment and compliance with all applicable hazardous work permits, including but not limited to; Lock out Tag Out (LOTO), line breaking, fall protection, confined space and atmospheric monitoring;
• Maintain accurate records for all equipment and facility maintenance activities performed, leveraging internal IT systems (Maintenance Connection);
• Demonstrate knowledge of and adherence to company’s HSE Environmental Safety and Health and Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) standards (e.g., general shop floor/machine safety and operating procedures);
• Report any issues to areas, Safety technicians, and management as appropriate and in a timely manner;
• Perform any other tasks across functional areas depending on site and seasonal needs;
• Help drive waste elimination and value creation by reducing variation in the production process and equipment settings;
• Support areas across the plant in driving the adoption of 5S practices to maintain an environment conducive to work, aligning with the labelling and ordering of tools;
• Help keep metrics and other relevant information current on visual boards to drive teamwork and facilitate shift change over;
• Become familiar with and troubleshoot seed production equipment (when applicable) operations;
• May be called on, from time to time, to operate seed production processes.

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values.  More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• High School diploma or equivalent;
• Basic knowledge of IT (Internet, Excel, PPT, Word, facilities with systems);
• Ability to lift a minimum of 60 lbs., (a bag of seed);
• Ability to work days, nights, rotating shifts, weekends and overtime as business needs;

Preferred Qualifications:

• Intermediate computer skills with experience using of SAP and PLC;
• Three to five years manufacturing experience, with experience in chemical or row crop manufacturing;
• Electrical experience.