Predictive Maintenance Technician - Hazleton Plant

Hershey•Hazleton, PA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Hershey Company, Hazleton Plant, in Hazle Township, PA is a Union plant manufacturing products such as Cadbury Caramello Bars, Cadbury Mini Eggs, Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bars, Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Almonds Bars, Hershey's Special Dark Bars, Hershey's Candy-Coated Eggs, and Kit Kat, in a high-speed complex environment. As a Predictive Maintenance Technician, you will work to minimize equipment downtime and life cycle costs. You will use predictive maintenance technologies to identify equipment failures in early stages and evaluate the quality of repairs and installations. These technologies include vibration collection and analysis, thermography, dynamic balancing, ultrasonic testing, thickness testing, shaft alignment, etc. This is a 1st shift position, but to be considered, you must be flexible on all shifts and weekend work. In addition, the Predictive Maintenance Technician will: Be self-motivated and able to work with minimum supervision. Be detail oriented with ability to self-manage workloads including providing input to planning and scheduling. Under limited supervision, collaborate with predictive maintenance vendors to develop, implement, and enhance a robust preventive maintenance program.

Requirements

Must be English and/or bilingual speaking
Strong change management skills, driving and implementing changes to optimize the business focusing on safety, quality and costs
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Problem solving and decision-making abilities
Ability to work with and relate to all levels of personnel
Must have a High School Diploma or GED
Minimum of 3 years of experience in manufacturing or in a high speed, complex environment required
Experience in maintaining manufacturing equipment is required
Experience with Microsoft Office Suite required

Nice To Haves

Food manufacturing experience preferred
SAP/ S4 Hana experience preferred

Responsibilities

Follow all safety instructions and procedures
Follow quality control standards, regulation, and standard operational methods and procedures
Establishes and monitors programs for critical equipment analysis and condition monitoring techniques
Reviews of deficiencies noted during corrective maintenance
Provides technical guidance for the TA teams and PM process
Provides guidance for stock quantities and risk-based stock requirements
Promotes equipment standardization
Consults with maintenance trades on technical operational reliability and high priority breakdown problems
Provides technical guidance for the preventative and predictive maintenance practices
Benchmark related industry activities in predictive maintenance practices
Serves as the focal point for monitoring performance indicators for maintenance leadership
Supports optimizing maintenance strategies
Responsible for analyzing equipment operating data
Completes route-based data collection using predictive technologies and techniques
Supports oil analysis, steam trap monitoring, vibration monitoring, and other predictive programs
Dynamically balances rotating equipment
Precision shaft alignment
Supports troubleshooting complex problems when predictive measures trigger
Ensure compliance with established standards in the areas of food quality & safety and employee safety.
Identify and implement opportunities for improvement.
Ensure compliance with administrative and reporting procedures while complying with overtime and provisions of the handbook
Document notification requests in SAP/ S4 Hana PM.
Follow up and prioritize with maintenance team across shifts.
Input data into SAP/ S4 Hana and other computer-based systems
Analyze information and follow-up on exceptions and opportunities
Foster a continuous improvement mindset, elevating new ideas (both your own and those of your employees), and executing plans to positively impact the plant operations and goals
Engages with 3rd party support and monitoring equipment including AVEVA PI