Multicraft Maintenance Technician

About the role

The Maintenance Tech role is located at Pennex's Wellsville, PA facility. This is a night shift position from 7pm to 7am with a rotating weekend schedule.

Responsibilities

• Responds to service calls from all departments involving breakdowns to diagnose and repair equipment as required.
• Responsible for prioritizing repairs with input and direction from leadership.
• Diagnoses malfunctioning apparatus and discusses it with other maintenance technicians including Maintenance Supervisor.
• Diagnoses and repairs or replaces faulty hydraulic or pneumatic components; mechanical components, including but not limited to bearings, couplings, etc; combustion components; and electronic components such as power supplies, processor, printed circuit boards, etc.
• Performs scheduled preventive maintenance (P.M.) on plant equipment including extrusion presses and auxiliary equipment, melting furnace, casting unit, billet saw, homogenizing furnace, etc.
• Conducts daily inspection of the operation of the air compressors and compressed air system including maintenance of oil levels, air filters, dryer operation, etc.
• Conducts daily inspection of the operation of the caster cooling water system including maintenance of the water level, water quality, water filtration, etc.
• Conducts daily inspection of the operation of the extrusion presses including maintenance of the oil levels, oil leaks, billet heater operation, cutoff saw operation, transfer operation, stretcher operation, etc.
• Installs and/or modifies equipment in cooperation with leadership to improve the reliability, simplify the operation, improve operational safety, etc.
• Completes all paperwork on a timely basis, including daily work sheets assigning work to appropriate jobs or equipment in quarter hour increments.
• Follows company rules, regulations and policies regarding work and safety practices.
• Maintains a neat and orderly work area including general housekeeping of the work area upon completion of repair.
• Assists with general housekeeping of the Maintenance area and plant.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: Associate's degree or equivalent from two-year college or technical school preferred.
• Experience: Five or more years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; write routine reports and correspondence; add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; use measuring devices, rulers, micrometers, etc.; interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables; pass pre-employment physical and drug screen; be eligible to work in the United States.