Maintenance Tech I

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyze work orders and production schedule to plan machinery downtime for preventative maintenance, repairs, and projects.
• Review and evaluate completed work orders to optimize equipment life cycle and schedule proactive replacements.
• Purchase parts and create kits for scheduled work orders and projects to increase wrench time.
• Develop and maintain work flow process. Train work force to utilize CMMS software effectively.
• Formulate and track metrics to statistically reflect department performance.
• Receives and carries out instructions for jobs from area supervisor or leadman
• Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment, and facility/building issues

Qualifications

• Ability to learn multiple positions within the department.
• Ability to read and analyze information.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate in English both verbally and in written form.
• Very capable with using planning software to create job plans.
• Comfortable with spread sheet software to develop reports and create financial models.
• Well versed in using excel spreadsheets.
• Knowledge about the operation of the machinery

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out a repair, maintenance and service situation.
• Ability to deal with non-standardized situations on as daily basis.
• Ability to use standard instructions provided by manufacturers of plant equipment, and install/repair plant equipment.

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Employee must be able to perform tasks such as climbing a ladder, repetitively pushing or pulling with arms in any position including overhead, and lifting 50 pounds intermittently as needed.
• The employee must have a reasonable range of motion and strength of all extremities and spinal segments as determined by a physical exam.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
• We are not a climate-controlled facility; therefore, summer heat and winter cold are conditions that should be expected.