Maintenance Technician - Nights

Webco Industries•Grand Rapids, MI

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Webco Industries has an opportunity for an experienced maintenance technician. This individual will be responsible for servicing, maintaining, rebuilding, and repairing a wide variety of production or processing machines and equipment in a manufacturing facility. Additional responsibilities will include building and facilities maintenance and repair. Work performed includes electrical, programmable logic control, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic.

Requirements

Ability to deal with stress and get along with co-workers and supervisors.
Ability to read and speak English is preferred.
Mathematical skills equivalent to high school level required.
Must be able to communicate effectively with supervisors and co-workers.
Regular attendance at work and punctuality are essential job functions.
Must be able to repair and maintain a variety of hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, programmable logic controls, mechanical equipment safely and efficiently.

Nice To Haves

PLC / Siemens controls preferred
Auto CAD, CAD/CAM, CNC preferred

Responsibilities

Performs required and/or scheduled Preventive Maintenance checks and performs adjustments, cleaning, lubrication and replacement of parts on various equipment; to ensure that the equipment is in superior operating and safe condition.
Uses a variety of power and hand tools such as, but not limited to, drills, saws, wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers and grease guns to perform repairs and maintenance of machinery and equipment.
Uses electrical arc welder, grinder and cutting torch.
Repairs may include working with voltage up to and including 600 volts DC and 480 volts AC.
Maintenance Technician will set up and operate various types of production machinery and equipment after they have performed a repair or rebuild prior to approving production usage to ensure superior operating and safe conditions.
Required to work from verbal or written instructions.
Required to read blueprints in order to troubleshoot and repair equipment.
Often required to crawl into, under, or on top of equipment and machinery while following OSHA LOTO Regulations.
Required to dismantle, move, install, or repair machinery or mechanical equipment, to repair, rebuild or replace broken parts usually of the heavy type.
Often required to climb ladders to make repairs, rebuild or install equipment or machinery.
Works on major projects such as complete equipment and machinery rebuilds, design alterations or modification of existing equipment or machinery.
Communicates with production operators to obtain information on nature of equipment failure in order to trouble shoot problems, and examine machinery or mechanical equipment to identify reason for malfunction.
Utilizes electrical meters and hand tools to perform maintenance repairs, rebuilds, and troubleshooting on production machinery.
Lays out, assembles, installs, tests, repairs and adjusts electrical fixtures, apparatus, equipment, machinery, and wiring. Examples of equipment include, but are not limited to, motors, welding equipment, lighting fixtures, circuit breakers, transformers, programmable logic controls.
Installs, repairs, and calibrates electrical and electronic recording devices, and regulating control instruments.
Measures, cuts, threads and installs electrical conduit. Pulls wiring through conduit. Splices wires. Connects wiring to fixtures and power equipment. Installs grounding leads. Installs and monitors performance of installed electrical equipment for hazards, adjustments or replacement.
Repairs, installs, replaces and tests electrical circuits, equipment and appliances within facility using hand tools and testing instruments.
Inspects and tests electrical lighting, signal, communication and power circuits.
Isolates defects in wiring, switches, motors and other electrical equipment using testing instruments such as ammeter, ohmmeter, voltmeter, or testing lamp.
Replaces faulty switches, sockets and other simple elements of electrical systems.
Dismantles electrical machinery and replaces defective electrical or mechanical parts such as gears, brushes and armatures.