Senior Mechanical Services Engineer (Utilities)
Merck
August 26, 2026
On-site
Durham, NC
Operations
Senior Mechanical Services Engineer (1st shift)
Responsibilities:
- Analyze calibration, maintenance, and equipment performance/work orders to identify trends, reduce reactive work, and increase reliability.
- Revise calibration/maintenance programs and SOPs to ensure activities follow safety, GMP, and established procedures.
- Partner with Operations, Technology, Automation, and Quality Approvers to scope investigations, identify root causes, implement corrective actions, complete trending analysis, and determine product disposition.
- Support Safety guideline processes and participate in divisional Safety Audits.
- Lead deviation investigations for instrument/equipment/system failures; ensure thorough documentation and on-time completion.
- Lead process improvement and corrective actions focused on equipment uptime, cost minimization, and process consistency.
- Create training materials and serve as an SME for system maintenance training.
- Collaborate with Operations and Lean Six Sigma teams to develop reliable cGMP-compliant manufacturing processes.
- Support maintenance perspectives of safety programs (LOTO, HECP, etc.) and environmental compliance.
- Collaborate with production maintenance technicians/engineers to maintain production equipment.
- Conduct periodic RBAM assessments with Technical CoE Reliability Engineers and own area-specific reliability actions.
Qualifications:
- Required: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering/Science/related field.
- 5+ years’ experience in production and/or calibration and/or maintenance.
- Strong planning/scheduling/time management.
- Working knowledge of GMP regulatory requirements.
- Good oral and written communication.
- Experience with GMP-compliant calibration/maintenance databases.
- Project management experience (change control and equipment qualification).
- Preferred: cGMP experience in sterile/bulk/finished pharmaceutical; RCA/FMEA/Lean Six Sigma; automation and MES/process modeling/process improvement; deviation management/troubleshooting; lyophilization and/or filling process/equipment.
Required Skills: Adaptability, Change Control Processes, Customer-Oriented, Deviation Management, Engineering Standards, GMP, Maintenance Engineering, Manufacturing Process Validation, Process Optimization, Regulatory Compliance, RCA, Strategic Thinking, Teamwork, Technical Support/Transfer.
Application: Apply via https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (deadline stated on posting). Requisition ID: R414280.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze calibration, maintenance, and equipment performance/work orders to identify trends, reduce reactive work, and increase reliability.
- Revise calibration/maintenance programs and SOPs to ensure activities follow safety, GMP, and established procedures.
- Partner with Operations, Technology, Automation, and Quality Approvers to scope investigations, identify root causes, implement corrective actions, complete trending analysis, and determine product disposition.
- Support Safety guideline processes and participate in divisional Safety Audits.
- Lead deviation investigations for instrument/equipment/system failures; ensure thorough documentation and on-time completion.
- Lead process improvement and corrective actions focused on equipment uptime, cost minimization, and process consistency.
- Create training materials and serve as an SME for system maintenance training.
- Collaborate with Operations and Lean Six Sigma teams to develop reliable cGMP-compliant manufacturing processes.
- Support maintenance perspectives of safety programs (LOTO, HECP, etc.) and environmental compliance.
- Collaborate with production maintenance technicians/engineers to maintain production equipment.
- Conduct periodic RBAM assessments with Technical CoE Reliability Engineers and own area-specific reliability actions.
Qualifications:
- Required: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering/Science/related field.
- 5+ years’ experience in production and/or calibration and/or maintenance.
- Strong planning/scheduling/time management.
- Working knowledge of GMP regulatory requirements.
- Good oral and written communication.
- Experience with GMP-compliant calibration/maintenance databases.
- Project management experience (change control and equipment qualification).
- Preferred: cGMP experience in sterile/bulk/finished pharmaceutical; RCA/FMEA/Lean Six Sigma; automation and MES/process modeling/process improvement; deviation management/troubleshooting; lyophilization and/or filling process/equipment.
Required Skills: Adaptability, Change Control Processes, Customer-Oriented, Deviation Management, Engineering Standards, GMP, Maintenance Engineering, Manufacturing Process Validation, Process Optimization, Regulatory Compliance, RCA, Strategic Thinking, Teamwork, Technical Support/Transfer.
Application: Apply via https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (deadline stated on posting). Requisition ID: R414280.