1st Class Mechanic

About the role

We are looking for a 1st Class Mechanic to join our Catalyst team in McIntyre GA.

Responsibilities

• Recognize and practice safe work habits in all daily duties.
• Install, rearrange, align, dismantle, repair, and reassemble complex equipment; diagnose complex equipment failures.
• Perform mechanic-skill work including fabrication, assembly, welding, burning, cutting, and pipefitting using oxyacetylene, plasma arc, shielded arc, tungsten arc, flux-cored, carbon arc cutting and gouging, and submerged arc methods.
• Occasionally perform work in other trades (pipefitter, rigger, rough carpentry, machinist, etc.).
• Use typical mechanic’s tools, tool-room inspection equipment, inspection gages, and involved shop math; operate production equipment to check work.
• Work from drawings, sketches, or verbal instructions and read, comprehend, and execute tasks from technical operating and maintenance manuals.
• Inspect own and others’ work for quality and dimensional requirements.
• Clean debris and lubricant from parts, equipment, and the work area.
• Rig equipment for lifting with hoists or cranes, routinely handling loads of several thousand pounds.
• Complete routine paperwork and use basic computer skills to access CMMS information.

Requirements

• Hold a High School diploma or equivalent.
• Have prior experience working with rotating equipment or equivalent in a manufacturing environment.
• Able to start, stop and operate all shop equipment.
• Able to work with water soluble and oil-based lubricants.
• Able to work on ladders, scaffolds and in pits and manually lift 50# intermittently (Heavier parts are lifted using other methods).

Qualifications

• Union position under United Steel Workers (USW) and covered under the collective bargaining agreement.
• All benefits are outlined in the collective bargaining agreement.

Skills

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Prior experience working with rotating equipment or equivalent in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to start, stop and operate all shop equipment.
• Ability to work with water soluble and oil-based lubricants.
• Ability to work on ladders, scaffolds and in pits and manually lift 50# intermittently (Heavier parts are lifted using other methods).

Benefits

• Details are outlined in the collective bargaining agreement.

Pay

The pay rate for this role is $35.34 per the Union's collective bargaining agreement.

Schedule

Details are outlined in the collective bargaining agreement.

Benefits

• Details are outlined in the collective bargaining agreement.

Skills

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Prior experience working with rotating equipment or equivalent in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to start, stop and operate all shop equipment.
• Ability to work with water soluble and oil-based lubricants.
• Ability to work on ladders, scaffolds and in pits and manually lift 50# intermittently (Heavier parts are lifted using other methods).

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