# Maintenance Specialist - Berkeley, CA

**Company**: Pharmaceuticals
**Location**: Berkeley, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $96,480.00 - $144,720.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

At Bayer, we're visionaries driven to solve the world's toughest challenges. As a Maintenance Specialist, you will serve as a field-based maintenance operations specialist responsible for coordinating and overseeing vendor-performed maintenance and repair activities in a regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.

Your tasks and responsibilities include:

- Reviewing work orders, job plans, permits, and site readiness to confirm maintenance activities are properly prepared before execution;

- Coordinating equipment downtime, operational clearances, and the staging of required parts, tools, and materials at the job site;

- Leading pre-job safety briefings and verifying all required permits, hazard controls, and crew understanding are in place before work begins;

- Providing field oversight during execution to ensure work follows approved plans, procedures, safety standards, GMP requirements, and environmental expectations;

- Serving as the primary field liaison among craft, operations, and engineering by monitoring progress, tracking labor and equipment status, and escalating issues or scope changes promptly;

- Verifying work is completed to specification, ensuring permits and punch-list items are closed out, confirming equipment return to service, and completing accurate CMMS/work order documentation;

- Supporting continuous improvement initiatives and small maintenance improvement projects by coordinating field execution, tracking actions, and helping implement changes that improve equipment reliability, work execution, safety, and compliance;

- Supporting deviation, DR, and CAPA activities by gathering field information, assisting with investigations, documenting maintenance-related actions, and helping ensure corrective and preventive actions are completed effectively and on time.

To be successful in this role, you should possess:

- An associate degree or equivalent certification and 6+ years' total work experience, including 3+ years in maintenance, reliability, or manufacturing operations within a regulated environment;

- Demonstrated experience coordinating or supervising contractor/vendor work activities in the field;

- Hands-on familiarity with CMMS platforms;

- Working understanding of GMP, OSHA, and environmental compliance requirements;

- Knowledge of permit-to-work systems;

- Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, mechanical drawings, equipment manuals, and job plans;

- Strong communication and coordination skills.

In terms of compensation, employees can expect to be paid a salary between $96,480.00 - $144,720.00, with additional compensation possibly including a bonus or commission. Benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.

## Skills

### Required
- CMMS platforms
- GMP
- OSHA
- permit-to-work systems
- P&IDs
- mechanical drawings
- equipment manuals
- job plans

### Nice to have
- reliability concepts
- standard maintenance practices
- problem-solving
- escalation skills
- time management

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