1st Shift Maintenance Technician

Description Job Summary: Responsible for equipment and facility maintenance. Ensures total productive maintenance strategies are established and executed. Leads a team of maintenance technicians to ensure preventative maintenance tasks are scheduled and performed. Performs minor machinery, equipment, and facility repairs.

Job Duties and Responsibilities: Schedules and manages preventative maintenance and repairs on equipment and facility needs. Performs equipment and machinery preventative maintenance. Established vendor connections for the timely diagnosis and repair of equipment. Established key parts inventory considering cost and lead time.

Tracks repair costs, downtime and other performance measures and works with team and others on continuous improvement of our maintenance costs and effectiveness. Ensures environmental regulations are followed during the repair and disposition of facility/processing wastes. Maintains an organized, clean and safe environment and maintains 5 “S” standards.

Complies with safety rules including PPE and OSHA standards. Participates in Lean initiatives eliminating wastes including overproduction, defects, transportation, waiting, inventory, motion, and over-processing.

Required Skills

High School Diploma or equivalent Understanding of metal forming, cutting equipment function, troubleshooting, and repair. Ability to read and interpret equipment and machinery service manuals. Knowledge of industrial math including arithmetic. Knowledge and working experience procurement using the internet. Knowledge of General Industry OSHA regulations.

Ability to identify and evaluate ambiguous mechanical issues and provide well thought out solutions. Cooperative attitude, shares critical information, and remains professional in difficult situations. Self-directed; ability to work independently and within teams. Proficient reading, writing, oral communication, and comprehension in English language.

Benefits

PTO/ESST Paid holidays $100 individual deductible and $300 family deductible health insurance Paid weekly Vision and Dental Insurance 401K / Life Insurance / STD