Senior Maintenance Technician

What You’ll Do

As the Senior Maintenance Technician, you’ll help keep Anika’s facility, utilities, and manufacturing equipment safe, reliable, and ready for production. Working in a regulated life sciences and medical device manufacturing environment, you’ll perform preventive and corrective maintenance across a broad range of complex facility systems and process equipment.

You’ll work independently to troubleshoot and repair equipment, interpret technical drawings and wiring diagrams, and respond to maintenance needs throughout the site. You’ll also serve as a technical resource for junior technicians, support new equipment and facility installations, and partner closely with Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, and other functions to keep our operations running effectively.

This position is primarily on-site at our Bedford, MA facility and includes scheduled weekend walkthroughs and participation in an on-call rotation for off-hours facility emergencies.

How You’ll Contribute

• Perform and document preventive and corrective maintenance on GMP facility systems, utilities, manufacturing equipment, and process equipment in accordance with Good Documentation Practices and applicable quality requirements.

• Maintain and troubleshoot a variety of facility utility systems, including HVAC-R, steam boilers, cold rooms, compressed air and gas systems, Reverse Osmosis (RO) and Water for Injection (WFI) systems, wastewater treatment, clean steam generation, and process and chilled water systems.

• Perform maintenance and troubleshooting on manufacturing and process equipment, including bioreactors, filling machines, chromatography columns, autoclaves, glass washers, and packaging equipment.

• Interpret drawings, wiring diagrams, equipment specifications, technical documentation, and other information to effectively troubleshoot and repair equipment and systems.

• Respond to emergency service calls and resolve identified issues in a timely manner while maintaining applicable safety, quality, regulatory, environmental, and compliance requirements.

• Support the design, installation, commissioning, and qualification of new facility equipment and systems as appropriate to your level of expertise.

• Participate in cross-functional investigations, root cause analysis, CAPA activities, and continuous improvement opportunities related to maintenance, equipment, and facility systems.

• Contribute to Anika’s Reliability program as a subject matter expert in your areas of technical knowledge and experience.

• Identify and implement opportunities to improve equipment reliability, maintenance processes, and overall operational performance.

• Provide training, technical guidance, and support to junior maintenance technicians.

• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, and other functions to troubleshoot issues and improve overall site performance.

• Obtain and maintain gowning certification for cleanroom entry.

• Perform scheduled weekend facility walkthroughs.

• Participate in an on-call rotation to support off-hours facility emergencies.

• Complete all required quality and safety training on time and maintain current training status.

• Follow all applicable internal procedures and external requirements related to safety, quality, regulatory, environmental, and compliance standards.

What It Takes

You’re a hands-on technical professional who is comfortable working independently in a regulated manufacturing environment. You know how to troubleshoot complex equipment and facility systems, work through problems methodically, and balance the need to restore equipment quickly with the requirements of a GMP environment. You’re also someone who enjoys sharing your technical knowledge and helping others develop their skills.

What You Bring

• 3+ years of experience working in a cGMP environment or equivalent regulated manufacturing experience.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently with little to no supervision.

• Technical proficiency across multiple maintenance disciplines and facility systems.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to interpret drawings, wiring diagrams, equipment specifications, and other technical documentation.

• Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize work, and achieve goals and objectives.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to track and document maintenance work orders.

Nice to Have

• Experience working within a maintenance organization in a cGMP environment.

• Experience in a biotechnology or pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.

• Experience maintaining GMP facility utilities and manufacturing or process equipment.

• Licensure or certification in wastewater treatment, refrigeration and air conditioning, electrical, or a related technical discipline.

• Experience participating in equipment installations, qualifications, investigations, root cause analysis, CAPA, or reliability programs.

• Experience providing technical guidance or training to junior technicians.

The salary range provided is based on the Company’s reasonable estimate of the base salary pay range for this position at the time of posting. Actual base pay is determined by several factors relevant to the position, including skills, competencies, experience, education, and geographic location. Anika also offers a discretionary bonus program for all full-time employees, comprehensive healthcare benefits, health savings account, 401(k) plan with up to 5% company match which includes immediate vesting, employee stock purchase plan at a 15% discount, accrued paid time off, additional long-term incentives including stock awards, and much more. At Anika, we take pride in offering robust Total Rewards, inclusive of market-leading benefits to meet our employees where they are in their career and in life.

The compensation and benefits information is provided as of the date of this posting. Anika reserves the right to modify compensation and benefits at any time, subject to applicable law.