Equipment Maintenance and Facilities Specialist-Juana Diaz, PR (Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, US)

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Equipment Maintenance and Facilities Specialist-Juana Diaz, PR

Involves leading and coordinating maintenance teams to ensure the safe and efficient operation of equipment and facilities. This role is responsible for overseeing maintenance activities, providing technical support during incidents, and ensuring compliance with safety standards. Trains staff, manages contractor activities, and adapts maintenance plans to minimize downtime while maximizing operational efficiency.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Equipment Maintenance and Facilities Specialist, Juana Diaz, PR, are to:

Coordinate preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance for farm equipment, fleet vehicles, facilities, utilities, maintenance shops, and infrastructure;

Inspect equipment and facilities, troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and building-system problems, and provide practical technical guidance during repairs;

Establish work priorities and coordinate diesel mechanics, electricians, industrial mechanics, welders, facilities workers, contractors, vendors, and specialized service providers ;

Verify repair quality, coordinate operational testing, and confirm that equipment and systems are safe and ready to return to service ;

Coordinate farm-equipment and fleet inspections, maintenance, repairs, seasonal readiness, and lifecycle recommendations ;

Support EHS-compliant maintenance execution, including safe-work planning, lockout/tagout, electrical safety, contractor safety, and stop-work authority;

Coordinate qualified electricians and electrical contractors and help ensure electrical work meets applicable NEC, permitting, testing, and documentation requirements;

Use Maintenance Connection to manage work orders, preventive-maintenance schedules, asset information, backlog, equipment history, downtime, and maintenance performance;

Coordinate contractors, technical scopes of work, repair estimates, parts, materials, purchase requests, and maintenance expenditures;

Analyze recurring failures, support root-cause analysis, and implement practical reliability and continuous-improvement actions;

Coordinate daily and weekly maintenance activities across company farms and operational sites while providing technical leadership without direct supervisory authority;

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution;

Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish, written and spoken;

Read and interpret technical documentation, procedures, safety requirements, drawings, manuals, and equipment information in English and Spanish;

Preferred Qualifications:

8+ years of progressively responsible experience in a similar field;

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, agricultural engineering, engineering technology, facilities management, industrial technology, or another closely related technical discipline;

No relocation will be offered

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between  $73,120.00 - $109,680.00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant).  Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc. This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors. This posting will be available for application until at least 11/2/26.

YOUR APPLICATION       Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Health for all, Hunger for none, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.

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Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans

Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.

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