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MDIC Tooling Lead

PCI Pharma Services

Rockford, ILFull-time$24.58–27.65/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$24.58–27.65/hr
Location
Rockford, IL
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The MDIC Tooling Lead supports team development by training team members, maintaining procedures, and ensuring correct job performance. The role leads daily activities for cleaning specialists and process reliability expeditors, manages tooling inventory when the supervisor is absent, and may assume supervisory duties. It also supports tooling and procedure issues, coordinates on-the-job training, and contributes to safety, quality, and service.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Basic MathematicsBasic Computer SkillsProblem SolvingAdaptabilityCommunicationTooling RepairTooling AssemblyTool EngravingLeadershipIndependent Work

Qualifications

Approved Grade Skills TestProfessional Proficiency English2+ Years Related Work or Leadership Experience

Benefits

Paid Time Off
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

Rockford, IL, USA

Full time

JR120498

Life changing therapies. Global impact. Bridge to thousands of biopharma companies and their patients.

We are PCI.

Our investment is in People who make an impact, drive progress and create a better tomorrow. Our strategy includes building teams across our global network to pioneer and shape the future of PCI.

Job Title: MDIC Tooling Lead

Location: Assembly

Shift: 1st Shift (Tues-Friday; 6:00am - 4:00pm)

Summary of Objective:

Focus on team development through training and development of procedures and ensuring all team members are performing correct job functions

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The essential duties and responsibilities include the following but other duties may be assigned.

  • Leads and directs cleaning specialist and process reliability expeditor on daily initiatives and activities by allocating labor where it is needed.

  • Assume the responsibility and job functions of a supervisor when supervisor is unavailable.

  • Host daily DDS meetings.

  • Acts as point person for all tooling inventory management when supervisor is absent

  • Provide documentation adherence support for Process Reliability Expeditors (PRE) and Cleaning Specialists.

  • The ability to systematically gather information from a variety of sources, analyze the information, identify implications of data, draw appropriate conclusions, generate viable alternative solutions to a question or problem, and evaluate the consequences of choosing each alternative.

  • The ability to define, diagnose, and resolve problems. This includes seeking, logically examining, and interpreting information from different sources to determine a problem’s cause and developing a course of action to resolve the problem and prevent its recurrence.

  • Provides guidance to others by responding to questions, observing work activity giving direction when necessary

  • Assemble/repair/engrave tooling and equipment.

  • Support process reliability expeditors and cleaning specialists with issues pertaining to tooling and procedures.

  • Provide leadership in Safety, Quality, and Service using continuous improvement in their assigned department.

  • Ensure personnel perform their jobs in a safe manner complying with company safety standards and rules. Taking immediate corrective action when necessary.

  • Oversee and manage training of PRE and Cleaning Specialists.

  • Will coordinate and manage PRE and Cleaning Specialist “On the Job” training appropriately. Will hand off any completed OJT’s to supervisor for training department submittal.

  • Reviews documentation in collaboration with supervisor and training department to update or implement new procedures.

  • Ability to follow instructions and respond to management directions.

  • Ability to work independently of a team.

  • Communicates PRE and Cleaning Specialists’ needs and discrepancies in departments.

  • Ability to effectively communicate over radio responding to calls in a timely fashion.

  • This position may require overtime and/or weekend work.

  • Knowledge of and adherence to all PCI, cGMP, and GCP policies, procedures, rules.

  • Attendance at work is an essential function of this position.

  • Performs other duties as assigned by Manager/Supervisor.

Qualifications: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required for the stated position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required:

  • Skills testing requirements met at approved grade level for position.

  • Basic Mathematical Skills

  • Basic Computer Skills: Ability to perform basic computer tasks and can operate common computer programs.

  • Minimum Professional Proficiency: Ability to speak in a way that allows one to participate effectively in various conversations. Ability to read various types of standard items addressed to general readers.

  • Intermediate Reasoning: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions that may be furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems that involve several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Preferred:

  • Ability to adapt to changing work environments.

  • Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.

  • Preferably 2-3 years related work or leadership experience

The hiring rate for this position is $24.58/hour - $27.65/hour plus eligibility for an annual performance bonus. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including but not limited to specific and relevant experience, education, credentials, geography, and subject matter expertise. PCI offers full-time employees a competitive benefits package that includes paid time off, health insurance coverage (including dental and vision), flexible spending account, and 401(k).

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Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement:

PCI Pharma Services is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, or any other protected status.

At PCI, Equity and Inclusion are at the core of our company’s purpose: Together, delivering life-changing therapies. We are committed to cultivating an inclusive workplace by holding ourselves accountable to the highest standards of understanding, fairness, respect, and equal opportunity – at every level. We envision a PCI community where everyone can belong and grow, and we strive to bring this vision to reality by continuously and intentionally assessing our people practices, policies and programs, marketing approach, and workplace culture.

Why work for PCI Pharma Services?

At PCI, we have an uncompromising focus on providing quality and operational excellence and providing the industry leading customer experience. Our people make all of this happen, so providing an industry leading experience for our people is equally as important. By creating an authentic culture of purposeful work, we aspire to be an interesting and fulfilling place for talented individuals to grow careers. We live a philosophy of intentional learning combined with real-life experience supported by a fair and competitive rewards program. We are individuals, teams and a company that believes in our purpose and our approach is simple, the people who work at PCI fuel our business; we don’t say no, we figure out how.

PCI Pharma Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled

How this job compares

Set against the 3,250 open Manufacturing jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$24.58–27.65/hr
  • Illinois median$22–25/hr45 hourly ranges
  • US median$22–25/hr1,009 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $26.12/hr, is 14% above the Illinois median midpoint ($23/hr) — in the middle half of Manufacturing hourly ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 92 open Manufacturing jobs in Illinois and 3,250 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
Manufacturing postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 7 years (1,750 postings).
Education
732 of the 3,250 open Manufacturing jobs (23%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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