Maintenance Technician

About the role

Responsible for routinely inspecting equipment and performing basic preventative maintenance duties as necessary or scheduled.

Responsibilities

• Routinely inspect equipment.
• Evaluate integrity of equipment and determine potential equipment failure or actual equipment failure.
• Perform preventative maintenance on all facility equipment and machinery including office auxiliary equipment.
• Identify when mechanical parts (e.g. sprockets, bearing shafts, chain, gearboxes) are worn and need to be replaced.
• Understand and troubleshoot controls and equipment interlocks.
• Understand and perform electrical shutdown procedures.
• Understand the fire system operation and where the valves are located.
• Able to operate and setup all equipment in the plant.
• Report concerns or problems to the maintenance lead and/or manager.
• Perform preventive maintenance repairs as needed.
• Perform basic maintenance duties as necessary.
• Maintain operational ability and integrity of all machinery.
• Lubricate all equipment as necessary and verify that the equipment or parts accepts lubrication properly.
• Understand pneumatics, hydraulic basic controls, pumps and general operations.
• Operate all equipment (e.g. conveyors, augers, pumps, etc.) in order to perform necessary Pre-Operational maintenance procedures.
• All other duties as assigned by Supervisor.

Requirements

• Lift up to 50lbs.
• Frequently move between warm and cold environments.
• Read, write, and understand English at a technical level.
• Complete basic math problems.
• Able to read and understand mechanical & electrical schematics.
• 3 years of previous experience in maintenance.

Qualifications

• Associate Degree in Industrial Maintenance (Preferred).