Job Description

Imagine Your Day at Adare
You start your morning on the packaging floor, walking the blister line you helped fine-tune last week. Preventive maintenance logs are current, a quick set-up changeover is on the schedule, and a new vendor is dialing in replacement parts. By lunch, you've coached a junior mechanic through an electrical diagnosis, and by afternoon, you're closing out cGMP documentation and preparing for the installation debug of a modified cartoner. That's a typical day for our Packaging Equipment Maintenance Supervisor at Adare--where we're transforming lives by transforming drug delivery.
Why Adare

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance with low employee premiums
• 401(k) with a competitive company match
• Generous paid time off, including floating holidays
• Clear paths for internal growth and career mobility
• Tuition reimbursement to fuel your learning
• Relocation support when needed
• Performance-based bonus opportunities
• Employee recognition programs that celebrate impact

The Role
Lead the mechanical health of our pharmaceutical packaging assets, ensuring uptime, compliance, and throughput. You'll own troubleshooting and maintenance for blister and other packaging systems, coordinate with vendors, and guide technicians while keeping documentation and SOPs impeccable.
What You'll Do

• Prioritize daily objectives with leadership to hit production targets.
• Direct and support fellow mechanics; step in as the go-to troubleshooter for equipment issues.
• Execute and document preventive maintenance on all packaging equipment each month.
• Analyze electrical, electronic, and mechanical failures; source and resolve root causes.
• Partner with equipment vendors when complex problems arise.
• Own rapid set-ups and changeovers aligned to schedule needs.
• Report equipment performance and status to packaging management.
• Participate in installation and debugging of new or modified machinery.
• Follow SOPs, cGMP, and safety protocols; maintain complete, accurate records.
• Complete all MasterControl trainings successfully.
• Pitch in with additional duties as needed.

Leadership Touchpoints
This role may include supervisory responsibilities such as vendor and contractor coordination, timecard approvals, on-the-job training, and supporting the growth of team members.
Qualifications

• High school diploma plus technical school certificate.
• 5+ years as a GMP Packaging Mechanic in pharmaceutical or vitamin environments.
• Blister packaging experience is required.
• Lead or supervisory background strongly preferred.
• Comfort reading and composing technical communications; able to present findings clearly.
• Solid math skills (whole numbers, fractions, decimals) and practical problem-solving.

Technical Strengths

• Electrical schematics and electrical repair
• Mechanical troubleshooting
• Pharmaceutical packaging processes
• Hands-on packaging equipment experience

Physical Demands

• The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, use hand and fingers, to manipulate objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color, peripheral, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

About Adare
We partner with pharma innovators through every phase of development and commercial manufacturing, with one shared mission: improve patient lives through better drug delivery.
Adare Pharma is an equal opportunity employer & prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, disability, marital & veteran status.
Principals only -- no agencies or third parties.

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