Pkg Equipment Maintenance Technician - Thurs - Sat Nights
Thermo Fisher Scientific · Cincinnati, OH
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 1+ years
- Industry
- Pharma & life sciences
- Posted
- 3 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level reliability role at Thermo Fisher Scientific (pharma & life sciences) in Cincinnati, OH.
- They ask for
- 1+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- FDA / GMP, PLC, Packaging lines
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Maintenance Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $58k–$84k.
Median of the low and high ends of 37 live postings that list pay, out of 1786 maintenance technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Ohio plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 120 other live reliability postings in Ohio.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (1+ vs 4+)
Typical $77k–$107k, from 7 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 48%
- ✓ PLC 43%
- Welding 33%
- Root cause 25%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for FDA / GMP, Packaging lines, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Thermo Fisher Scientific in Cincinnati
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- Formulations Manufacturing Manager · Manufacturing · Manager
- Manufacturing Process Engineer · Process
Full description from Thermo Fisher ScientificAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Education
- ✓High school diploma or equivalent required.
Experience
- ✓Required: Minimum of 1 year of work experience in a manufacturing, operations, production, lab setting or related field
- ✓Preferred: Minimum of 1 year of experience in manufacturing maintenance, automotive, HVAC, or a related field.
- ✓Preferred: Experience in a cGMP environment
Requirements
/ Work Environment
- ✓Be able to lift up to 40lbs individually.
- ✓Various gowning
requirements
and PPE such as dust mask.
- ✓Extended periods on feet. May require times working in tight equipment technical spaces.
- ✓Clean work environment.
What We Offer
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Work Schedule
12 hr shift/nights
Environmental Conditions
Able to lift 40 lbs. without assistance, Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Cleanroom: no hair products, jewelry, makeup, nail polish, perfume, exposed piercings, facial hair etc... allowed, Loud Noises (Equipment/Machinery), Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)
Job Description
Work Schedule
Flex 12 hr shift/nights
Environmental Conditions
Able to lift 40 lbs. without assistance, Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Cleanroom: no hair products, jewelry, makeup, nail polish, perfume, exposed piercings, facial hair etc... allowed, Loud Noises (Equipment/Machinery), Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.), Working at heights
Job Description
Shift: End of Week Night Shift
Shift Schedule: Thursday - Saturday, 6:00pm - 6:30am
Shift Differential: 15%
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
Discover Impactful Work
- •Assist operators in equipment set-up, start-up, and continuous operation. Including but not limited to changeover of the production equipment related to format and serialization.
- •Build and write work instructions, setup instructions, preventative maintenance tasks.
- •Actively influence training of employees on various packaging equipment.
- •Assists operators, engineers, and supervisors with equipment installation, provide suggestions for modifications and continuous improvements!
- •Validate and verify operation of newly installed equipment to evaluate system performance under actual operation conditions.
- •Maintain equipment files and document maintenance activities in compliance of SOPs and Good Manufacturing Procedures (cGMP). Ensure compliance of Preventative Maintenance.
- •Identify and order equipment parts as needed.
- •Actively participates in problem-solving sessions with focus on safety, quality, and driving efficiency improvement actions! Analyze equipment, develop and implement solutions.
- •Active participant and recommend solutions to monthly safety, quality and efficiency meetings.
- •Work with Mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and 24-480v controls.
A Day in the Life
- •Directly support change over and startups on packaging lines; working with equipment mechanic, electrical, vision and user interfaces
- •Responsible for troubleshooting and implementing immediately solutions when equipment experiences downtime to restore packaging operations.
- •Support safety and quality actions, execute PMs, identify and implement solutions for bottlenecks on the packaging lines.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- •Ability to read/understand piping and instrument diagrams, schematics, wiring diagrams, equipment assembly drawings and other equipment related documentation.
- •Job may require wearing of NFPA 70E personal protective equipment as well as Tyvek coveralls and different styles of respirators.
- •Interpersonal skills to communicate in a team environment.
- •Be familiar with Microsoft Office applications.
- •Ability to work overtime as needed and be available on an on-call basis as needed. Mandatory may be required.
- •Knowledge of electrical: ability to diagnose control circuits, drives, PLC experience preferred but not required.
Physical
Excellent Benefits
- •Medical benefits
- •Paid Time Off/Annual Leave
- •Employee Referral Bonus
- •Career Advancement Opportunities