Maintenance Mechanic Lead (BCS)

RR Donnelley•St Charles, IL
•Onsite

About The Position

RRD is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions. This role is for a Maintenance Mechanic Lead on the 1st Shift (7am-3pm). The position involves providing oversight of junior-level staff, assigning and monitoring maintenance tasks, tracking costs, managing parts inventory, and performing electrical and mechanical troubleshooting and repairs on production equipment. This includes machinery such as die cutters, presses, folders, and conveyor systems. The role also involves building repairs, updating schedules, and coaching junior mechanics.

Requirements

  • 3 to 5+ years of hands-on experience maintaining and repairing production machinery in a manufacturing environment
  • Skill in installing, troubleshooting, repairing, overhauling, aligning, testing, and maintaining complex equipment and machinery
  • Advanced knowledge of equipment and machine control bodes in sufficient depth to trace symptoms of equipment malfunction and distinguish mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic failures from those which are electrical or electronic
  • Ability to make precise adjustments for alignment, parallelism, and concentricity due to the continuing effects of malfunctions throughout the entire machine or equipment
  • Ability to perform precise measurements of air and fluid pressure and flow, and knowledge of the mechanisms used to convert such readings into measurable units
  • Ability to interpret complex multiview drawings, sketches, wiring diagrams, manufacturers' specifications, and other technical material to isolate malfunctions in such devices as hydraulic pumps and motors, mechanical clamping devices, and electric or hydraulic axis drive and positioning systems
  • Advanced knowledge of construction and assembly techniques and the ability to manufacture replacement parts with complex configurations or assemble unique devices with unusual angular relationships
  • Knowledge of geometry, shop mathematics, and handbook formulas to provide for surfaces with interrelated dimensions and to calculate angles, clearances, fits, pressure, flow, and other parameters of interest
  • Task prioritization and workflow organization to direct daily maintenance priorities and reduce equipment downtime.
  • Knowledge and ability to anticipate and respond quickly to danger signs as they become evident through intricate warning systems to avoid loss of time and expensive equipment
  • Must have skill in the use of hand tools, power tools and test equipment needed to perform job effectively
  • Lift up to 50 pounds, stand or walk for long shifts, and climb ladders, stairs
  • Knowledge of skyjack lifts, navigating skywalks, catwalks, scaffolding and elevated platforms.
  • Knowledge of OSHA, HazMat, Lock Out Tag Out, NEC, etc.

Responsibilities

  • Provide oversight of work conducted by junior-level staff and/or review/audit work for accuracy
  • Assign maintenance tasks to staff, monitor progress, and ensure work is completed according to deadlines and quality standards.
  • Tracking maintenance costs, managing parts inventory as well as work orders effectively
  • Install, modify, repair, maintain, troubleshoot, test, and load new and existing electrical lines, circuits, systems, and associated fixtures, controls, and equipment
  • Perform electrical and/or mechanical troubleshooting and repairs in response to equipment errors or failures
  • Maintain organization's production equipment
  • Repairs and maintains, in accordance with diagrams, sketches, operation manuals, and manufacturer's specifications, machinery and mechanical equipment, such as die cutters, sheet-fed presses, inserting machines, folders, conveyor systems, bindery equipment etc. using hand tools, power tools, and precision measuring and testing instruments
  • May repair or reproduce parts using welders or machine tools such as lathes, milling machines, drill presses, surface grinders or other machine shop equipment
  • Building repairs and other miscellaneous duties as assigned
  • May update and maintain shift schedules in the time and attendance system, as well as enter attendance transactions
  • Coach, guide, and train junior mechanics and maintenance technicians.

Benefits

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision coverage
  • paid time off
  • disability insurance
  • 401(k) with match
  • life insurance
  • other voluntary supplemental insurance coverages
  • tuition assistance
  • maternity leave
  • adoption assistance
  • employer/partner discounts
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