Maintenance Technician

About the role

BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) is a U.S.-based company providing nuclear solutions globally. The Maintenance Technician position involves repairing, constructing, and servicing electronic and electrical machinery and equipment.

Responsibilities

• Performs all work safely, adhering to established procedures and using a questioning attitude to prevent and stop unsafe work conditions.
• Repairs, constructs, adjusts, modifies, installs, and services all types of electronic and electrical machinery and equipment.
• Makes sketches and layouts, performs diagnoses, and corrects any and all electronic and electrical difficulties, including specialized equipment.
• Works from wiring diagrams, drawings, specifications, and written and verbal instructions.
• Analyzes all types of circuits, wiring diagrams, and drawings.
• Plans details of working procedures to determine material or replacement needs and selects the most logical approach to troubleshooting and repair problems.
• Designs and constructs adaptations or conversions of component parts.
• Assembles, installs, adjusts, repairs, or replaces faulty parts or wiring and all types of electronic designs.
• Maintains, installs, or repairs all communication cables or wiring.
• Maintains primary power distribution system, including power cable splices.
• Plans and performs work requiring a thorough knowledge of electrical and electronic principles, wiring specification codes, properties of various materials, and principles of operation and application of equipment.
• Keeps own work area, machinery, and equipment clean and orderly.
• Detects and reports faulty operations and defective materials.
• Reports print errors and/or errors in written and verbal instructions.
• Maintains performance and maintenance records of all equipment worked on or assigned duties.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• A two-year technical certification, or significantly related work experience or military training, along with a minimum of two years experience in a comparable manufacturing environment.
• Must pass quality control testing, as required.
• Must be able to climb to any height, work in confined spaces, and routinely lift 40 lbs.
• Must qualify to use cartridge type respirator.
• Must furnish adequate personal tools to properly perform required duties.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• This position requires shift work, and successful applicants must be willing to work any shift.

Preferred Qualifications

• PLC Experience, Siemens based preferred.
• Industrial electrician experience, such as conduit bending.
• Substation switchgear experience.