Assembly Maintenance Technician

Silgan Dispensing • Grandview, MO

6d

About The Position

Repairs and maintains machinery and equipment, including motors, conveyor systems, production machines, and assembly equipment. The technician diagnoses and repairs mechanical, pneumatic, and electrical issues; replaces worn or defective parts; adjusts equipment and controls; and tests machinery after repairs. The role also includes rebuilding assembly equipment to reduce scrap and improve quality, developing and implementing cost-saving ideas, and following applicable work rules and policies.

Employees are expected to work safely, take responsibility for their own safety and that of coworkers, and support the organization’s environmental stewardship principles. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.

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, proportions, area, circumference, and volume, and apply basic algebra and geometry.
• Ability to apply commonsense understanding to written, oral, or diagrammed instructions and handle problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to perform the essential duties satisfactorily, with reasonable accommodations where applicable.
• Ability to work mandatory overtime; additional overtime may be assigned as needed.
• Ability to regularly lift or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift or move up to 100 pounds.
• Ability to meet the role’s physical demands, including standing, walking, using hands, reaching, climbing or balancing, and bending, stooping, twisting, kneeling, squatting, or crawling.

Responsibilities

• Observe equipment in operation and evaluate potential problems for future repairs.
• Dismantle equipment to access and remove defective parts.
• Adjust equipment function parts and control instruments.
• Repair or replace defective parts and install special functional or structural parts.
• Lubricate and clean parts, and 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 and troubleshoot electrical faults using a multimeter.
• Clean photoelectric equipment with contact cleaner and clean parts bowls with cleaning fluid; clean parts using solvents.
• Remove and rebuild escapements, replacing worn parts; dismantle and rebuild air cylinders and repair pneumatic leaks.
• Adjust feeding tracks, escapements, tube cuts, tube bins, Syntron feeder speed, and air-cylinder speed.
• 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 safely, supporting coworkers’ safety and environmental stewardship.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed