Facilities & Maintenance Technician

Job Summary:

Aids in daily maintenance of the building/facility, equipment, and machinery (including HVAC, lighting systems, production equipment, grounds keeping, security, and overall facility appearance).

Performs diverse duties to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain production and facility equipment according to safety, predictive, and productive maintenance systems to support site business goals.

• Coordinates hazardous/non-hazardous waste drum disposal.

Maintenance Functions:

• Performs highly diversified duties to install and maintain production machines and the plant facility’s equipment.
• Provides emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production and performs scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service.
• Performs simple machinist duties and responsibilities.
• Performs mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting and repair of production machines.
• Reads and interprets equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
• Detects faulty operations, defective materials, and reports those and any unusual situations to proper supervision.
• Complies with all safety regulations and maintains clean and orderly work areas.
• Makes minor carpentry and plumbing repairs.
• Sets up and tears down chairs, tables, speaker system in meeting rooms.
• Participates in general cleaning.
• Able to operate a forklift or scissor lift.
• Disassembles and installs furniture or cubicles.
• Able to work effectively under pressure, and against strict time constraints.
• Affords assistance to the Facility and Maintenance Manager in all aspects of project implementation as needed.
• Represents the department in meetings to support and facilitate communication and action necessary for projects.
• Performs inspections of fire extinguisher, forklift, 180 day containment building, etc as needed.

Facilities Functions:

• Performs typical maintenance tasks to support the assembly floor and the entire facility.
• Clears snow and ice from entrances and walkways.
• Acts as a primary contact for all building issues, including climate control, odors, smoke, damage, etc.
• Coordinates and assists with departmental equipment moves.

Competencies:

• Must have basic understanding of how things work.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved oral or written instructions.
• Ability to relate to other employees in a courteous manner.
• Ability to acquire job skills through on-the-job training.
• Must be able to work independently without direct supervision.

Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The employee will also be exposed to heat or cold condition depending on working area.

Physical Demands:

• Constant standing or walking.
• Frequent change in position.
• Occasional reaching, crouching/squatting, crawling, balancing, stooping, kneeling, stairs, scaffolding, in/out of machinery, ladder, simple grasping, firm grasping, fine manipulation.
• Occasional lift/lowering, carrying, pushing/pulling up to 50-100 lbs of force.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Expected Hours of Work:

Full-time; Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.