Maintenance Mechanic

Thompson Pipe Group•Grand Prairie, TX

2d•$20 - $30•Onsite

About The Position

Thompson Pipe Group is looking for a Heavy Equipment Mechanic (Pay: $20.00 - $30.00 per hour ) to install, troubleshoot, clean, inspect, and maintain mechanical equipment throughout the facility in a safe and productive manner. Part of this includes doing preventive maintenance on equipment, changing outwear parts, and recording of damage or miss-use of equipment.

Requirements

Understand basic electrical and hydraulic schematics
Properly use tools like electrical meters, hydraulic gauges, and lifting equipment
Capable of lifting 50 pounds
Welding/fabrication experience
Must know how to safely work around and with heavy equipment/object
Able to measure accurately with calipers, feeler gauges, and tape measures
Be willing to do some out of town travel (usually less than 5 days per trip)
Be able to work 40+hours per week

Nice To Haves

Relevant: 1 year (Preferred)
Manufacturing environment: 3 years (Preferred)
Forklift Driving: 3 years (Preferred)
Repairing Forklifts weighing 5,000lbs-80,000lbs
Repaired Heavy Equipment: Cranes
Welding: 3 years (Preferred)
Ability to arc welding and cutting torch experience
Service Tech: 3 years (Preferred)
Ability to read simple electrical / mechanical drawings
Communicates effectively

Responsibilities

Participate in safety programs
working to repair and maintain air compressors, dryers, trucks, forklifts and pallet jacks. Assists with installation of new equipment.
Maintain all job site equipment in a good, clean, orderly condition and reports all deficiencies to supervisor
Maintains and cleans equipment, performs required inspections, completes paperwork, and assumes accountability
Dismantle equipment to gain access to and remove defective parts using hoists,
Follow OSHA and HAZMAT rules and regulations
Take proactive steps to make improvements to plant equipment and processes.
Follow standard safety procedures, correct safety and environmental hazards, and report them to supervision as necessary.
Recommend improvements in maintenance methods, working to reduce cost of replacement/repair whenever possible
Lubricate & clean parts
Test and troubleshoot malfunctioning machinery, determine repairs and discuss with Head Mechanic for approval and repair as needed
Ability to operate welder, cutting torch, electrical/power and manual hand tools for repairs.
Be able to fix minor electrical problems
This position will require overtime during planned maintenance outages and during plant outages.
Reads, understands, and applies information such as lockout/tagout procedures, safety rules, job hazard analyses, pre-job briefings, operating and maintenance instructions and procedures manuals.