Maintenance Coordinator GreenLight Biosciences

Green Light Biosciences is using RNA to create a world where plants, people, and the planet can thrive together. The company is developing highly effective agricultural solutions for farmers and beekeepers that are targeted to specific pests and degrade quickly in the environment. Our pipeline includes products to protect honeybees and a range of fruits and vegetables. The Green Light platform allows us to research, design, and manufacture across multiple product categories including insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides.

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Responsible for maintenance of Green Light Bio’s Rochester, NY operations. This includes reactive and preventive maintenance, critical spare parts inventory, troubleshooting, repairs and supporting capital projects. All this work is to be done in a safe compliant manner. Must be capable of performing highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain production and facility equipment according to safety, predictive and productive maintenance systems, and processes to support the achievement of the site’s business goals and objectives.

Maintain and improve facilities.

• Comply with all OSHA, EPA, Process Safety and Green Light Bio EHS requirements and maintain clean and orderly work areas.
• Follows all safety procedures e.g. lock-out tag-out, line breaking, hot work, confined space entry.
• Provide management and training of highly diversified duties to install and maintain production machines and the plant facility’s equipment.
• Provide contractor oversite and training for emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production and performs scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service.
• Support maintaining current maintenance mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting and repair of production machines.
• Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to support required maintenance and service responsibilities of maintenance department.
• Diagnose problems, replace, or repair parts, test and supervise adjustments.
• Manage preventive maintenance on machines, equipment, and plant facilities.
• Detect faulty operations, defective material, and report those and any unusual situations to proper supervision.
• Track and maintain electronic records on all maintenance and repairs to machines and facility.
• Ensure all processes, procedures and documentation is ISO compliant.

• A successful candidate for this role must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily and train/manage contractors to do same.
• Perform mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting and repair of production machines.
• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office Outlook, Excel, etc.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple scopes concurrently.
• Able to pass employment physical, drug test, and background check.

• Ten years related experience and/or training or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Must be able to speak and understand the English language to ensure a safe work environment.
• High school diploma or GED required.
• An AA degree in mechanical, electrical, or industrial maintenance a plus.

Effectively communicate and understand job instructions both verbally and written in the English language.

• Ability to perform basic mathematical computations.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Ability to lift 50 lbs. when required. While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, climb ladders, and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Salary Range: $130,000-$150,000 USD

Greenlight Biosciences Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.