Foundry Maintenance Technician, 1st Shift

About the role

You will independently diagnose complex issues, fabricate and modify components, and support continuous operations through preventive maintenance, emergency response, and equipment installations.

Responsibilities

• Performs a wide variety of skilled maintenance, repair, installation, and fabrication duties requiring considerable initiative, ingenuity, judgment, and independent decision-making under general supervision.
• Maintains, repairs, rebuilds, installs, and tests machine tools, special-purpose machinery, foundry equipment, mechanical systems, elevators, floors, bins, and related industrial equipment.
• Sets up, operates, and performs complex machining operations using lathes, milling machines, planers, shapers, drill presses, band saws, jointers, and other shop equipment to fabricate, modify, and repair precision parts.
• Troubleshoots mechanical and electrical malfunctions; determines root causes, performs tear-downs and reassembly, and completes repairs to minimize downtime and prevent production interruptions.
• Fabricates and repairs holding jigs, fixtures, flasks, belts, hand truck bodies, chutes, hoppers, pans, and other production-related equipment from verbal instructions, samples, drawings, or measurements.
• Performs plumbing, pipefitting, welding, cutting, rigging, and general maintenance activities, utilizing precision measuring instruments and a variety of hand and power tools.
• Services, repairs, and maintains complex industrial electrical systems, including automatic controls, electronic controls, and plant-wide electrical equipment.
• Makes calculations for layouts, installations, and maintenance projects, responds to emergency service calls as needed, and may develop original production setups and solutions to unique operational challenges.

Qualifications

• Journeyman's Card in industrial maintenance or equivalent experience (at least 4+ years of maintenance experience)
• Knowledge of high or low voltage electrical work is preferred
• CNC experience is preferred
• PLC experience is preferred
• Welding knowledge and skill to perform various welding functions
• Ability to interpret blueprints, written specifications, charts, and tables
• Ability to work in hot, dusty, noisy, and physically demanding environment
• Comfortable working in tight spots when needed
• Knowledge of pipefitting functions
• Must be able to run power industrial equipment including tow motors, high lifts, sweepers, scrubbers, golf carts, lawn mower, tractor, etc.
• Must be able to stand, walk, bend, reach, and twist at the waist. Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds from floor to waist consistently throughout shift.
• Steel-toed footwear and metatarsal covers are required PPE

Pay

The hourly pay for this role is $30.69/hour.

Schedule

1st Shift: 5:30am – 1:30pm, Monday – Friday (often until 3:30pm Monday – Thursdays). Overtime as needed.

Benefits

• Paid holidays
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick time
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k)
• Up to 5% 401K match starting day one of employment
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Prescription drug insurance
• Tuition reimbursement