Mechanical Maintenance A

About the role

Performs maintenance necessary to keep plant, equipment, machinery, and tools in good operating condition. Work involves a wide range of methods and procedures on a variety of routine and non-routine duties to diagnose, dismantle, repair, lubricate, and reassemble equipment adequately and accurately. Troubleshoots basic mechanical assemblies to determine whether a pump, gearbox, hydraulic system, or pneumatic system can be repaired, or replaced.

Responsibilities

• Works from drawings, sketches, wiring diagrams, machine operation and maintenance manuals, work order requests, and oral instructions to install, adjust, repair, and perform assigned maintenance duties.
• Position, fit and weld components to assemble structural forms, machinery frames, plant equipment, attachments or accessories, and building parts according to blueprints or knowledge of structural and metal characteristics.
• Utilizes various specialty cutting and welding equipment.
• Troubleshoots and services pumps, gear boxes, motors, cranes, and hydraulic, and pneumatic systems as needed at an intermediate level.
• Periodically inspects conditions of plant operating machines and equipment for preventative maintenance purposes.
• Inspects and performs routine equipment care on all shop machinery, mobile equipment, and cranes.
• Tears down, replaces, repairs, installs, and assembles simple equipment parts, components, and accessories.
• Cuts, bends, and threads conduit, pipe, and tubing.
• Maintains specified records of work performed, details of repairs, and material usage.
• Requires interpretation of schematics/blueprints at an intermediate level.

Additional Responsibilities

• Operates mobile equipment to lift and transport materials including loaders, cranes, man-lifts, brick-lift, and forklifts.
• Ensures daily preventative maintenance is performed on vehicles/mobile equipment to include fueling, cleaning, checking and adding fluid as needed.
• Follows all PPE requirements and safety rules/guidelines for all tasks being performed.
• Absorbs and trains coworkers as needed.
• Maintains communication with coworkers through two-way radio and hand signals.
• Ability and willingness to work as part of a self-directed team with limited supervision.
• Maintains work area and equipment in a clean and orderly condition.
• Engagement in GBS tools and methodology.
• Assists maintenance personnel as needed.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• AAS in industrial maintenance and maintenance reliability certifications are preferred.
• Verifiable maintenance technical training.
• Understanding of shop mathematics with the use of drawings, specifications, charts, tables, and precision measuring instruments.
• Experience working in an industrial environment in a position containing a routine maintenance component.
• 3 to 5 years of heavy industrial mechanical maintenance experience.
• Advanced knowledge of the following maintenance disciplines: AC/DC motors, gear box mechanics, lubrication principles, welding, cutting torch, NFPA 70E, and common maintenance hand tools.
• Intermediate knowledge of pumps, gearboxes, hydraulic systems, pneumatic systems, stick and tig welding and rigging principles.

Skills

• Interpretation of schematics/blueprints at an intermediate level.
• Ability to climb stairs, climb ladders, reach, squat, tolerate prolonged standing/walking, balance, bend, operate mobile equipment, crawl, kneel, and push and pull objects.
• Ability to lift up to 70 lbs.
• Ability to operate hand controls with both hands and foot pedals with both feet.
• Ability to perform sustained overhead reaching, and to work in cramped quarters and at heights.
• Ability to work a rotating shift schedule including days, nights and weekends.
• Ability to tolerate working in areas where noise levels can reach 120 decibels.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision coverage starts day 1.
• 401(k), with 6% company match, begins day 1.
• Company paid short- and long-term disability along with life insurance.
• Weekly pay.
• Generous vacation time available immediately.
• Supplemental benefits including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance along with Identity Protection and Legal Assistance.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Uniforms provided along with a Safety Boot allowance.
• Paternity leave.
• Employee Discount program.
• Tuition Reimbursement, Professional Development Assistance, and a Scholarship program.
• Flexible Spending, Health Savings, and Dependent Care accounts available.
• Pet Insurance options.