Millwright/Maintenance Technician
About The Position
Are you ready to grow your career with a leading company that values innovation, teamwork, and your professional development? At Grede, we believe our people are the heart of our success, driving collaboration, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence every day. We’re looking for dedicated Millwright/Maintenance Technicians to join our team and play a vital role in keeping our operations running smoothly. If you’re passionate about hands-on work, problem-solving, and contributing to an industry-leading organization, we’d love to hear from you! You will inspect, repair, replace, install, and maintain mechanical production equipment to ensure peak performance and efficiency.
Requirements
- Experience: 1-2 years in a manufacturing environment as a millwright/maintenance technician
- Availability: Willingness to work overtime as needed to meet production demands.
- Physical Requirements: Ability to lift and move up to 50 pounds and perform frequent physical tasks such as lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling.
- Education: High School Diploma preferred.
Responsibilities
- Inspects plant equipment for defects such as misalignment, wear, unusual noises, insufficient lubrication, and RPMs.
- Determines the best way of making repairs to minimize interruption of production and performs PM inspection and repairs.
- Advises when immediate shutdown of equipment is necessary to minimize damage or when temporary continued operation will have no harmful defects.
- Dismantles, cleans, repairs, replaces, installs, maintains, assembles, and lubricates mechanical equipment.
- Adjust equipment for proper operating characteristics.
- Make either temporary or permanent repairs.
- Assembles and aligns gears, bearings, and shafts.
- Operates simple machine tools such as drill presses, pipe cutting, threading machines, and power saws.
- Installs and repairs pipes, fittings, drains, and other pipefitting work related to the trade.
- Erects scaffolds and performs simple rigging as necessary.
- Changes, sets up, and adjusts equipment as required by current operating conditions.
- Works with outside repair crews as directed on emergency breakdowns or installations.
- Keeps work areas and equipment clean and orderly.
- Receives instructions covering the scheduled emergency repair, installation, and inspection work to be done.
Benefits
- Base pay + Shift, and Job Premiums (for eligible positions).
- Comprehensive Benefit Package including Medical, Vision, and Dental coverages
- Insurance: Life, Supplemental Life, Short and Long-Term Disability
- 401(K)
- Paid Vacation and Holidays
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- PPE allowances
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
