General Mechanic

Smurfit Westrock•Hopewell, VA

27d•Onsite

About The Position

The Hopewell Mill is seeking to hire General Mechanic Millwrights and Machinists to support its paper manufacturing facility. This role involves familiarity, understanding, and experience with facets of design, installation, startup, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of process equipment and systems common to industrial and manufacturing facilities. Examples of process equipment include pumps, motors, gear reducers, couplings, belt-drives, bearings, and seals. The position also requires understanding and experience with reading drawings, Bills of Materials, parts identification, work packages, workflow processes, planning and scheduling. Experience with development and completion of assigned data collection routes, to include temperatures, vibrations, acoustics, speed, etc., is also expected. The General Mechanic will determine work procedures to assemble, dismantle and overhaul machinery and equipment using hand and power tools, and work with a wide variety of precision tools such as veneer calipers, micrometers, dial indicators, levels, gauge blocks and optical and laser alignment tooling. They will perform a variety of maintenance related tasks in connection with the maintenance, repair and/or improvement to equipment.

Requirements

High School Diploma or G.E.D.
Good verbal and written communication skills.
5-10 years’ experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment, equipment installations, equipment maintenance, construction, fabrication, or supporting service.
Licensed and Certified Journeyman classification or equivalent Military Occupational Skill (MOS).
Ability to work overtime and rotating shifts.

Responsibilities

Familiarity, understanding, and experience with facets of design, installation, startup, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of process equipment and systems common to industrial and manufacturing facilities.
Understanding of and experience with reading drawings, Bills of Materials, parts identification, work packages, workflow processes, planning and scheduling.
Experience with development and completion of assigned data collection routes, to include temperatures, vibrations, acoustics, speed, etc.
Determine work procedures to assemble, dismantle and overhaul machinery and equipment using hand and power tools.
Work with a wide variety of precision tools such as veneer calipers, micrometers, dial indicators, levels, gauge blocks and optical and laser alignment tooling.
Perform a variety of maintenance related tasks in connection with the maintenance, repair and/or improvement to equipment.