Maintenance Mechanic II

Maintenance Mechanic

Lief Labs is a premier formulation and product development innovator and manufacturer of dietary supplements. Our in-house product development and R&D team creates the best-tasting and cutting-edge supplement formulations. Lief also houses a state-of-the-art, full-service Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) manufacturing facility, which offers custom solutions for many supplement categories. Lief collaborates with entrepreneurial firms to help them build premier brands. Our turnkey solutions allow us to engage in seamless partnerships that help brands with scalability and sustainable growth. Lief Labs is in the Santa Clarita Valley (Valencia, CA).

Lief is seeking an experienced Maintenance Mechanic who can support and drive ownership for preventative maintenance of our production equipment. Serve as a leader to the other members of the team while establishing best practices that we maximize performance and minimize downtime.

The Maintenance Mechanic II is responsible for the support of production equipment and other facility assets. The Mechanic II must be able to perform preventative maintenance, troubleshoot, maintain and repair operating equipment during production and breakdowns. In addition, the Maintenance Mechanic II will work with others to achieve plant business objectives of safety, productivity, customer service, quality, cost and environmental protection.

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoots production equipment and mechanical failures, repairs and performs preventive maintenance (PM) as required to ensure equipment reliability.
• Assists Operations, Quality and Engineering teams with root cause analysis for 5 Why's, change management, Incident Management, and Non-Conformances to identify reasons for incident causes.
• Works with operators and support production and transfer skills to other technicians
• Supports the daily operations of Planned Maintenance, Corrective Maintenance, and Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance standards while working with teams, focus priority, and plant directives.
• Accurately and fully completes all regulatory and compliance related documentation and procedures.
• Work with teams to fabricate machine parts as needed and responsible for shop cleaning and 5S.
• Ensures completion of work orders as scheduled and document in the CMMS in a timely manner.
• Reviews equipment instructions, blueprints, electrical, and pneumatic schematics to ascertain test specifications, procedures, objectives, test equipment, nature of technical problem, and possible solutions such as part redesign, substitution of material or parts, or re-engineering of parts or subassemblies.
• Participates and lead work groups or team activities related to plant performance improvement.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

HS Diploma or GED Equivalent

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of industrial maintenance experience required.
• Mid to high level break-fix & preventative maintenance experience required.
• Experience with troubleshooting of PLC controlled equipment required.

Skills/ Abilities Problem Solving:

• Strong commitment to safety and quality processes, including but not limited to Lockout Tag Out (LOTO).
• Ability to analyze, troubleshoot and perform repairs.
• Understands electrical, mechanical, fluid power and control systems.
• Understand Ohms law, voltage availability.
• Understand electrical; 460 VAC 3-phase and 110 VAC control sources as far as determining power.
• Knowledge of controls and PLC troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated ability to perform electronic, mechanical and hydraulic repairs used in electrical and mechanical maintenance technician work assignments.
• Must be able to use basic hand tools and specialized tools as appropriate.
• Basic Microsoft Office knowledge and/or Computerized Maintenance Management System knowledge desired.
• Excellent verbal/written communication and customer service skills.
• Problem Solving
• Planning & organizing
• Team player attitude that is a highly disciplined, problem-solver with a strong work ethic.
• Flexibility/ adaptability/ multi-tasking

Work Environment:

The office is clean, orderly, properly lighted and ventilated. Noise levels are considered low to moderate. Field conditions vary.

Exposed to various raw materials, including allergens (i.e. milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nut, peanuts, wheat, soy).

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may regularly need to talk, hear and grasp items. This position is active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day.

Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, strong fumes, loud noises, and occasionally extreme temperatures

The employee must frequently grasp, lift and/or move items 10 pounds and occasionally grasp, lift and/or move items 33lbs.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

The Hourly Range for this position at Lief Labs is $35.50 - $42.00/hr USD. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to market demands, experience, training, skills, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, wellness benefits, education reimbursement program, and PTO.

Lief is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, or sex, including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Suppose you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran. In that case, you have the right to request accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center due to your disability. To request an accommodation, contact the Lief Human Resources department.

Lief will consider employment-qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

Lief uses E-Verify to confirm work eligibility in the United States. E-Verify compares the information on your Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, to official government records.