Maintenance Technician

As a Maintenance Technician, you are responsible for maintaining the equipment in the facility on the production floor, warehouse and the office area.
Requirements
Responsibilities:

- Repair / replace extrusion process line equipment as needed to ensure safe and efficient operation.

- Prioritize breakdowns based on the input from production.

- Troubleshoot equipment problems in coordinated effort with production personnel.

- Ensuring work orders are completed in a timely fashion and all parts used are accounted for.

- Responsible for ensuring all equipment is diagnosed and repaired in a timely manner or elevating to the Maintenance Manager level when the repairs will take longer than allotted time.

- Performs preventive maintenance inspections and service on machines.

- Thoroughly cleans machines and machine parts, removing parts and reinstalling as necessary.

- Oils and lubricates moving parts on machines to ensure effective performance.

- Records and reports damaged, worn, or broken parts.

- Identifies the causes of unexpected breakdowns of machines.

- Cleans, organizes, inventories, stocks, and otherwise maintains shop areas, parts, tools, and supplies.

- Coordinates with managers to schedule regular maintenance on machines.

- Collaborates with production manager or plant engineer regarding new products being added and modifications that will be required.

- Makes necessary modifications and implements tests runs; confers with production manager regarding test results and makes additional alterations to machinery as required.
Skills Required:

- Understands electrical diagrams, familiar with 12 VDC to 480 VAC electrical wiring, with diagnostic capability.

- Previous experience with PLC’s, VFD’s, and relay-based logic.

- Multi discipline mechanical, electrical, HVAC skills and the ability to quickly learn new process/equipment.

- Effective communication, observation, planning, writing, reading, basic math, problem solving and prioritizing skills.

- Proficient computer skills to receive/close work orders, view/search different folders for manual, notes and/or documents.

- Demonstrated good house keeping practices and 5S principles.

- Mechanically inclined with great problem-solving skills.

- Works well independently and with others.

- Good communication skills.

- Organized with attention to detail.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced and stressful environment.
Education and Experience:

- 3-5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment with a track record of improvements.

- 3-5 years’ experience in a maintenance environment with a track record of improvements.

- Some vocational or community college with related coursework or equivalent experience, preferred.
Physical Requirements:

- Prolonged periods standing and walking.

- Able to bend, stretch, push, pull, and move as needed to reach, clean, and service machinery.

- Must be able to visually inspect machines.

- Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds.