Machine Repairer / Millwright

MTR.vet•Buffalo, NY

About The Position

Maintain, install, repair, etc. a wide variety of heavy industrial production machinery in a large brass and copper mill including all types of welding, piping, plumbing and mechanical maintenance and repair work. Duties include:

Requirements

Experience in industrial mechanical repair, piping, and welding (triple - traded preferred). Journeyman is a PLUS
Tools and Equipment proficiency (as many of these as possible is a PLUS): hand and air tools, grinders, measuring instruments, hoisting/rigging, forklifts, welders, torches, generators, drill press, overhead crane, hydraulic press, electric threading machine, pipe bending tools, etc.
Comfortable utilizing prints, drawings, shim stock, spare parts, rolls, shear blades, etc.
Physically capable of handling heavy loads (materials over 50 lbs. are moved mechanically)
Know the expansion / contraction of metals and proper fluxes, rods, torch sizes, fuel mixtures, speeds, currents, etc.

Responsibilities

Utilize skills and appropriate tools to install, maintain, and repair heavy industrial machinery
Set up, clamp, pre -heat, and welds all types of metals (cast iron and steel, carbon and alloy steels, copper, brass, aluminum, etc.)
Troubleshoot and maintain hydraulic and pneumatic circuitry, valves, pumps, and various water, steam, gas, systems