Production Maintenance

Willert Home Products, In • St. Louis, MO

13d • Onsite

About The Position

Install, troubleshoot, repair & maintain production and facility equipment. This role involves learning each production line and its operation, examining, testing, maintaining, and repairing all plant machinery and equipment to ensure safe and efficient operations. Responsibilities include performing preventive maintenance, diagnosing problems, replacing or repairing parts, disassembling and reassembling equipment, and setting up tooling. The position requires recording and logging maintenance activities, communicating actions and irregularities, and strictly adhering to LOTO procedures and plant safety regulations.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• 4+ years industrial maintenance including breakdowns and repairs, and production line changeovers.
• Troubleshooting motor control centers and mechanical packaging equipment including presses, filling lines, conveying systems, pneumatic and hydraulics.
• Programming VFD up to 480V.
• Installing photo-eyes, ultrasonic sensors, and safety light curtain; also teaching how to install each of these.
• HMIs, including their functions and abilities.
• Pass the post offer physical and drug test.
• Follow written/oral directives from the Plant Manager and Supervisors.
• Follow instructions and company safety rules and be a critical thinker.
• Work effectively in a team environment with people of varying skills and backgrounds.
• Read an electrical and wiring schematic and have general electrical knowledge.
• Wire a circuit that includes safety e-stops; continuous, momentary and timing relays; control heaters; encoders; and other electronic components.
• Identify, troubleshoot and locate I/Os on a PLC (Allen Bradley, Automation Direct, Siemens).
• Be flexible with work projects and changing needs.
• Good organizational skills and ability to prioritize projects.
• Knowledge of hand and power tools.
• Highly motivated, self-directed worker, able to work autonomously in a fast paced and often loud production environment.
• Steel toe shoes are required.
• Employee must wear safety glasses and ear protection. Gloves and masks/respirators as needed.
• Use of personal tools is required. Metrics and SAE wrenches, multi-meter, various drivers, Allen wrenches, flashlight, etc.
• Forklift certification.

Nice To Haves

• A two-year technical degree preferred.
• PLCs experience and Robotics is a plus.
• Continuous ink jet date coders; setting up a message and changing parameters a plus.

Responsibilities

• Learn each production line and its operation and be able to run each station.
• Examine, test, maintain and repair all plant machinery and equipment to assure safe and efficient operations. May include the design and fabrication of parts.
• Perform a variety of duties for preventive maintenance on the production equipment. This may require reading and interpreting equipment manuals.
• Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, and make adjustments as needed.
• Disassemble, repair, and reassemble equipment, using various tools.
• Set up and change over the tooling on machines.
• Record and log maintenance repairs and inspections at machine. Communicate all actions, irregularities, repairs, and inspections.
• Fully understand and comply with the LOTO procedures.
• Comply with plant rules & safety regulations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED