As a Maintenance Technician II, you will play a key role in ensuring reliable operation of all equipment used in the Galaxy filling process at Takeda’s Round Lake, IL manufacturing site. You will support and maintain equipment across the Mix, Fill, and Finishing complexes in the Drug Delivery facility, making sure manufacturing lines are properly maintained and ready to run during planned production periods.

This role is a night shift, 6:00pm – 6:30am in a 2-2-3 work schedule configuration.

How you will contribute:

• Perform preventive maintenance (PM) and monitor equipment during production to identify and resolve issues before they impact output.

• Provide advanced troubleshooting and repairs for mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems.

• Respond to equipment issues on an emergency basis, including working overtime, weekends, and during plant shutdowns as needed.

• Become thoroughly familiar with corporate specifications, plant standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the Galaxy process, and local GMP requirements, ensuring they are consistently followed.

• Adhere to all plant safety rules and actively promote safe work practices, including directing others in proper safety procedures.

• Drive innovation and continuous improvement, working both independently and in collaboration with manufacturing, engineering, and quality teams to resolve issues and enhance performance.

• Learn and understand corporate specifications and plant SOP's governing the operation of the Galaxy process and local GMP

• Monitor assigned manufacturing lines and communicates with manufacturing to reduce down time

• Provide a high level of troubleshooting to repair mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems

• Review current PMs, verifies parts are in stock and completes PMs

• Build and rebuild machine assemblies

• Communicate equipment issues and work status to supervisor, manufacturing, and management per the plant's Stop and Fix guidelines

• Initiate work orders using the JD Edwards (JDE) CMMS system

• Perform PM work and assign work related to the Galaxy process when work is required to maintain equipment reliability and efficiency; ensure timely completion of related documentation

• Notes in JDE or other downtime tracking method any problems, breakdowns or alarms related to all equipment; initiate work orders, and provides additional documentation required to resolve issues; reviews equipment trends related to the issues and support efforts to eliminate reoccurring problems

• Share knowledge and trains less experienced technicians in the Galaxy process and all related equipment including safety, 6S, PM's associated with the facility

• Learn to handle robots in all normal production modes; troubleshoot problems related to robots, machine output and quality defects as they occur

• Advances knowledge and capabilities through additional training

• Solicit help from Lead technicians and engineering assistance when needed

What you bring to Takeda:

• High school diploma or GED equivalent required, plus 2+ years of experience or Associates degree or higher and 1+ years of related work experience

• 3+ years manufacturing systems experience.

• Prior experience working in an FDA-regulated environment

• Understand electrical, mechanical and pneumatic drawings

• Experience with electrical, mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic systems

• Willingness to develop an understanding of programmable logic controllers (PLC)

• Must not be allergic to Cephalosporin or their related products and minerals

• Will travel up to 5% of the time

Important Considerations:

At Takeda, our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product. In this role, you may:

• May wear personal protective equipment (PPE) and other clean room garments daily. This may include safety shoes, safety glasses, aprons, face shields, lab coats, full body gowns, hair nets and gloves and hearing protection.

• Need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.

• Work in a cold, wet environment.

• Work multiple shifts, including weekends, or be asked to work supplemental hours.

• Work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers and Celite that may require respiratory protection.

• Can work on multiple shifts, including weekends and holidays, to support a 24/7 manufacturing operation.

• Will work non-traditional work hours or work overtime.

• In general, your work will be a combination of sedentary work and walking around observing conditions of the facility.

• Can carry up to 100lbs, lift up to 100lbs, push/pull up to 100lbs (with assistance of material handling equipment).

• Will stand and walk for an extended period of time over an 8-12 hour shift between rooms and across the site.

• May require bending, twisting, reaching overhead, and squatting motions to perform certain tasks

• Indoor working conditions

• General office environment with air conditioning and heating

• Will work around moving equipment and machinery

• May work in confined spaces/areas.

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and the best patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company to inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

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