Maintenance Technician 3rd Shift

Location: North Kingstown, United States of America

About the role

Thales has a vacancy for a Maintenance Technician for the North Kingstown site. You will be responsible for providing technical support for all personalization and insertion machinery/equipment with regards to Health & Safety, Quality, and Productivity. The intervention could be corrective or preventive action to the equipment. As part of the duties, you will support the cost reduction plan, spare parts inventory, and maintenance KPI improvements.

Responsibilities

• Maintain personalization and insertion equipment to provide safe, reliable, and efficient production while adhering to all OSHA regulations and policies.
• Fault find and repair to provide optimum uptime of Perso equipment.
• Provide instruction and guidance to production operators on machine operation and basic maintenance.
• Liaise with equipment suppliers to undertake machinery diagnostics, upgrades, and modifications.
• Assist in the control and management of spare parts while ensuring the database is up to date.
• Escalate all issues of downtime to the Maintenance Manager or Production Team Leader and enter maintenance and downtime details into the corresponding maintenance ticket.
• Ensure continual high standards of housekeeping.
• Provide technical support to other Thales Perso facilities that share the same Perso technology.
• Contribute to specific projects related to the maintenance area, such as spare parts cost reduction, spare parts inventory, and maintenance KPI improvements (MTBF, availability, and machine downtime).

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• At least 1 year of experience as a mechanical or electric technician.
• Proven technical grounding in mechanical and electrical disciplines.
• Computer literate with good communication, organizational, and time management skills.
• Preferred knowledge of Datacard / Bell & Howell / Pitney Bowes / Matica / Persomaster machinery, fault finding at board level, and a good understanding of computer hardware/architecture.
• Willingness to learn and support new equipment.
• Ability to travel occasionally to support other Thales Perso sites.

Special Position Requirements

Schedule: 3rd Shift, 11 PM to 7 AM, starting on Sunday night until Friday morning (occasional overtime on Friday night into Saturday).

Physical Environment: Shopfloor/Office. Must possess strength, stamina, and mobility to perform medium to heavy physical work, work around machines, climb and descend ladders, and operate a variety of tools and equipment. Requires vision to read printed materials and a computer screen and to distinguish colors in wiring, as well as hearing and speech to communicate in person and over the telephone or radio. Frequent walking in operational areas to identify problems or hazards. Must be able to bend, stoop, kneel, reach, and inspect work sites, and have the ability to lift, carry, push, and pull materials and objects weighing up to 50 pounds or heavier with assistance and/or the use of proper equipment.

Travel: Occasionally.

Benefits

• Elective Health, Dental, Vision, FSA/HSA, Voluntary Life and AD&D, Whole Group Life with LTC, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Plan, Identity Theft, and Pet Insurance.
• Retirement Savings Plan after 30 days of employment with a company contribution and match, with no vesting period.
• Company-paid holidays and Paid Time Off.
• Company-provided Life Insurance.

Pay

The Total Target Compensation (TTC) market range for this position, inclusive of annual base salary and variable compensation target, is between $38,980.63 and $73,079.00 USD annually.