Maintenance/Repair Technician 1

About the role

This is a 3rd shift position reporting to the Facilities/Maintenance Manager. Shift hours are 10:30 p.m. – 7:00 a.m. Sunday through Thursday with paid overtime as needed, two 10-minute paid breaks and one-half hour unpaid lunch. Repairs and maintains machinery and mechanical equipment such as motors, pneumatic tools, conveyor systems, and a variety of other production machines and equipment including their safety devices by performing the following responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes work orders, blueprints and schematics to determine work to be performed.
• Troubleshooting equipment problems by observing mechanical devices in operation to locate causes of trouble and examining defective machinery to determine cause of malfunction and perform machine repairs.
• Dismantles devices to gain access to and remove defective parts, then inspects parts to determine changes in dimensional requirements.
• Repairs, rebuilds or replaces defective parts.
• Installs special functional and structural parts in devices.
• Lubricates and cleans parts.
• May set up and operate lathe, drill press, grinder, and other tools to make and repair parts and machines.
• Adjusts functional parts of devices and control instruments.
• Ability to utilize computers and understand ladder logic to diagnose PLC and HMI issues a plus but not required.
• Sets up and starts devices and machines to test their performance.
• Initiates purchase order for parts and machines.
• Performs preventative maintenance.
• May modify PLC programs for production equipment with appropriate supervision/authorization.
• Recommends measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product.
• Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase production efficiencies.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Two to four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Journeyman status preferable.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Must be able to read blueprints and schematics.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all members of the organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Pre-employment, post offer drug screen and physical required on selected candidate.