Maintenance - Support Technician
About The Position
This role involves performing maintenance activities in a high-performance working environment to ensure optimum utilization of materials and manpower, maximizing production, safety, quality, and efficiency. The technician will generate and complete work orders, communicate with other team members, and perform preventative maintenance. They will also participate in training, root-cause failure analysis, and team meetings, while adhering to all safety, housekeeping, and regulatory requirements. The position requires troubleshooting, coaching, teaching, and repairing processing, packaging, and facility equipment, as well as reading technical documentation and operating maintenance shop tools.
Requirements
- Understand, troubleshoot, and repair mechanical systems: Pumps (centrifugal, and positive displacement), Power transmission equipment (electric drives, gearboxes, and conveyors), Hydraulic systems, motors and power plants, Pneumatic systems (including valves and actuators), Utility systems (compressed air, water, steam and condensate), Lubrication fundamentals
- Understand, troubleshoot, and repair electrical systems: AC and DC equipment control circuits (including blueprint reading), AC motors (single and multi-phase), DC motors, Variable Frequency Drives, Process sensors (RTD’s, pressure transmitters, proximity, level, photo, and flow), Servo control systems, Fanuc robotics, Programming
- Must understand Programmable Logic Controllers and troubleshoot relay ladder logic.
- Must read and understand electrical and mechanical drawings, including schematics.
- Must be a highly motivated, self-directed worker, capable of working alone or in a team environment to solve problems and implement solutions.
- Ability to follow safe work practices such as LOTO.
Nice To Haves
- High School Diploma plus two years of technical training preferred
- 2-5 years maintenance experience preferred
- Machinist skills, welding, light fabrication and electrical skills are a plus
- Experience with root cause analysis tools, failure modes, and continuous improvement preferred
Responsibilities
- Perform maintenance activities in a high-performance working environment on a regular basis to ensure optimum utilization of materials and manpower to maximize production, safety, quality and efficiency
- Generate and complete work orders to ensure materials are available from the parts room. Initiate work requests when work cannot be performed immediately
- Communicate and work with other operators, line leaders and the technical leader on maintenance issues
- Perform preventative maintenance and inspection functions and take the initiative to ensure these programs are modified and updated as needed
- Participate in training to improve and maintain technical skills, teamwork, creativity and communication skills
- Participate in root-cause failure analysis with team members and maintenance leaders for major downtime
- Actively participate in team and plant meetings and activities
- Follow all safety, housekeeping and regulatory agency requirements
- Accurately troubleshoot, perform preventative maintenance, coach and teach, and repair to original specifications of processing, packaging, and facility equipment
- Read and understand technical documentation including electrical and mechanical drawings
- Safely operate maintenance shop tools
- Ability to test mechanical equipment
- All other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
