Maintenance Technicians

The Maintenance Technician position is responsible for performing highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair and maintain production and facility equipment whether it be electrical or mechanical according to safety, predictive and preventative maintenance systems and processes to support the achievement of the business goals and objectives.

Job Responsibilities
• Perform highly diversified duties to install and maintain production machines and the plant facility’s equipment. Measured by unplanned and planned stop times or downtime.
• Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production and performs scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service.
• Become owner / responsible for specific parts of machines as well as work as a team member when performing repairs, preventative and predictive maintenance activities for entire plant.
• Perform maintenance skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, electrical controls, pneumatic, hydraulic, welding, plumbing troubleshooting and repair of production machines.
• Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
• Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test and make adjustments.
• Use a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters and material handling equipment in performing duties.
• Detect faulty operations, defective material and report those and any unusual situations to proper supervision.
• Ensures all safety, quality, regulatory, and customer requirements and expectations are met.
• Comply with safety regulations and maintain clean and orderly work areas.
• Other duties, activities or responsibilities as assigned.

Formal Education
Associates or Technical Degree preferred
High School Diploma or GED required

Required competencies of the position
• Minimum of 3 years of maintenance in a manufacturing setting or equivalent experience
• Must have strong Commercial Electrical background.
• Must have strong experience installing, troubleshooting and maintaining electrical/electronic control circuits.
• Must be able to read circuit diagrams/wiring schematics
• Must have Siemens PLC/VFD experience (S7 and TIA Portal preferred) Allen Bradley VFD experience is also preferred
• Must be Team player who takes personal initiative.
• Must be able to identify potential technical issues and resolve them with minimal to no supervision while maintaining a positive attitude.
• Ability to lift at least 35 pounds.
• Must be available to work as requested on-call 24/7.
• Basic experience with MS Office.
• Basic understanding of the metric system preferred.
• Must be able to work overtime, or call, or on weekend as requested.
• Forklift and aerial platform lift experience / past operator license obtained.
• Must be able to stand on concrete floors for long periods of time.
• Must be organized and data driven.

Physical Demands
This position requires frequent lifting and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lifts and/or move up to 35 pounds. The position requires bending, walking, climbing and standing for long periods of time and performs physical labor. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Main Accountabilities
This position will be held accountable for machine downtime and tracking, critical spare parts availability, projects completed in a timely manner, quality of work and safe working attitude.

This position reports directly to Maintenance Manager.