Maintenance Technician at Ashland, LLC in Kearny, New Jersey

Job Description:

Pharmachem Laboratories LLC

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Tech to join our Pharmachem business at our Kearny, NJ site. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the manufacturing function.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Keep personal and foods safety as highest priority


• Engage with operations to identify poor performing and non-performing equipment, collaborate with technical team to identify strategy for repair, implement repairs, and confirm successful repair.


• Write purchase orders for parts and services using Ashland procurement tools; receive purchase orders physically and electronically.


• Rebuild equipment as assigned.


• Create and audit lock-out-tag-out procedures.


• Troubleshoot and collaborate with 3rd party contractors on critical utilities including boiler and HVAC


• Participate in capital expense planning, support opex and capex installations.


• Repair equipment while preserving food safety integrity and ensuring personal and team safety.


• Update PM program as necessary, track mean time between failure (MTBF) for critical parts.


• Suggest and maintain critical parts inventory.


• Participates in root cause analysis.

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• 3 to 5 years in a GMP maintenance environment


• Graduation from a technical program or additional experience in-lieu


• History of high safety performance


• Experience rebuilding pumps and motors


• Experience placing purchase orders using an online tool


• Experience with spray dryers, ribbon blenders, and mills

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit:

• Electrical/electrician training


• Comfortable with MS Outlook and Excel

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.
 
At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.
 
Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.
 
Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. NOTE:  We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.