Process Maintenance - 6pm-6am (rotating schedule)

Plascon • Traverse City, MI

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Plascon Inc. offers a great benefit package, including paid time off, a 401(k)-retirement plan with immediate vesting with a 100% employer match for your first 3% of deferrals and 50% match for next 2%! That means if you put in 5% we put in 4%. Blue Cross medical plans, Blue Cross dental, and EyeMed vision, employer paid life insurance, employer paid short- and long-term disability insurance, and tuition reimbursement. Medical, dental and vision benefits are effective the 1st of the month after you start! Work Schedule: work 2 days, off 2 days; work 3 days, off 2 days; work 2 days; then off 3 days, and repeat. Shift schedule example: Week One: Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday. Week Two: Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday. In other words, 48 hours one week, 36 hours the next. Depending on qualifications the hourly rate could reach $36.75/hour (includes shift premium pay). Summary: Installs, maintains, and repairs machinery (mono and multi-layer blown film lines, various conversion machines to create bags and box liners, clean room equipment), physical structures, and pipe and electrical systems.

Requirements

• General knowledge of electrical circuits, motor circuits and 480 VAC power circuits.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment; plastics manufacturing experience strongly preferred
• Proven ability to diagnose and repair hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical systems common in injection molding or extrusion operations
• Familiarity with plastic equipment such as extruders, chillers, blown film, and Material delivery systems
• Skilled in fabrication and repair work using mills, lathes, welders, gas torches, and other machine shop tools
• Experience performing preventive and predictive maintenance on high-volume production machinery
• Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, schematics, and equipment manuals specific to plastic processing equipment
• Demonstrated success working alongside production and engineering teams to minimize downtime in a plastics facility
• Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers or other employees of the organization. Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Basic keyboard skills required which includes email, the input of work orders using Microsoft Excel and maintenance software.
• Must possess your own tools.

Nice To Haves

• maintenance certificate that would typically include coursework in electrical wiring and schematics, HVAC/R, plumbing, reading blueprints, general carpentry, and tools of the trade.

Responsibilities

• Visually inspects and tests machinery and equipment
• Become familiar with plant machinery, detect malfunction diagnose and repair
• Dismantles defective machines and equipment and installs new or repaired parts.
• Cleans and lubricates shafts, bearings, gears, and other parts of machinery; cleans and changes filters
• Installs and repairs electrical apparatus, such as transformers and wiring, and electrical and electronic components of machinery and equipment.
• Lays out, assembles, installs, and maintains pipe systems and related hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, and repairs and replaces gauges, valves, pressure regulators, and related equipment
• Repairs and maintains physical structure of establishment
• Performs preventative maintenance on building and equipment
• Orders maintenance/repair parts and supplies. Maintain stockroom inventory using maintenance software.
• Occasionally will need to respond to emergency calls after hours.

Benefits

• paid time off
• 401(k)-retirement plan with immediate vesting with a 100% employer match for your first 3% of deferrals and 50% match for next 2%
• Blue Cross medical plans
• Blue Cross dental
• EyeMed vision
• employer paid life insurance
• employer paid short- and long-term disability insurance
• tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed