Equipment Maintenance Technician

About the role

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

The “Equipment Maintenance Tech” will be based in Austin, Texas, reporting to Maintenance Supervisor. The role involves mechanical and electrical maintenance of machinery and equipment.

• Repairs and maintains machinery and mechanical equipment such as conveyor systems and production machines and equipment.
• Maintains and repairs manufacturing equipment to ensure it is operational.
• Through troubleshooting, identifies machine malfunctions and isolates the failure mechanism.
• Repairs the failure mechanism in the most cost-effective manner.
• Performs preventive maintenance at specified intervals and schedules.
• Performs calibrations and re-qualifications on equipment at specified intervals and schedules.
• Assists process technicians and engineers with the installation and removal of process equipment.
• Records times and problems in equipment logs.
• Provides daily equipment functioning activity information.
• Disassembles instruments and equipment and inspects components for defects.
• Aligns, repairs, replaces, and balances component parts and circuitry.
• Assists engineers in formulating test, calibration, repair and evaluation plans and procedures to maintain precision accuracy of measuring, recording, and indicating instruments and equipment.
• May require travel to other Flex sites or equipment vendors' locations.
• May perform both software and hardware maintenance.

Requirements

• Typically requires an associate degree in related field, military technical training or equivalent education and training.
• Typically requires 5 years of related experience.
• SMT experience is a must.

Schedule

Shift: 6:00am-2:30pm (Monday-Friday)