Assembly Maintenance Technician

Silgan Dispensing Systems•Grandview, MO

19d

About The Position

Repairs and maintains production machinery and equipment, including motors, conveyor systems, assembly equipment, and related components. Work includes troubleshooting mechanical, pneumatic, and electrical issues; replacing or rebuilding worn parts; adjusting equipment; testing repairs; and upgrading assembly equipment to reduce scrap and improve quality. The technician also develops and implements cost-saving ideas. The position requires following workplace rules and policies and contributing to a safe workplace and responsible environmental stewardship. The regular schedule exceeds eight hours per day and 40 hours per week, and mandatory overtime may be required, with additional overtime assigned as needed.

Requirements

One to three months of related experience and/or training.
Must pass a skills assessment.
Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence and speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.
Ability to calculate figures and amounts, including percentages, area, circumference, and volume, and apply basic algebra and geometry.
Ability to follow written, oral, or diagrammed instructions and solve problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Ability to perform the essential duties satisfactorily, with reasonable accommodations where applicable.
Must be able to work mandatory overtime.
Regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
Required vision abilities include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Regularly stand, walk, talk, and hear; frequently use hands to handle or feel, reach, climb or balance, and sit, bend, stoop, twist, kneel, squat, or crawl.

Responsibilities

Observe equipment in operation and evaluate potential problems for future repairs.
Dismantle equipment to access and remove defective parts.
Adjust functional parts of equipment and control instruments.
Repair or replace defective parts and install special functional or structural parts.
Lubricate and clean parts; start equipment to test performance.
Set up and operate a lathe, drill press, grinder, and other metalworking tools to repair equipment or make spare parts.
Repair electrical equipment.
Clean photoelectric equipment with contact cleaner; clean parts bowls with cleaning fluid and clean parts using solvents.
Remove and rebuild escapements and dismantle and rebuild air cylinders by replacing worn parts.
Locate and repair pneumatic leaks and electrical faults using a multimeter.
Adjust feeding tracks, escapements, tube cuts, tube bins, Syntron feeder speeds, and air-cylinder speeds.
Replace motors, motor controls, clutches, conveyor belts, and cut-off blades; troubleshoot and repair electric motors.
Remove parts jams using the required tool.
Troubleshoot with a programmer using a keyboard.
Rebuild assembly equipment to reduce scrap and improve quality.
Develop and implement cost-saving ideas.
Follow work rules and policies and act in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.
Perform other job-related duties as assigned.