Maintenance Technician 2nd shift

Maintenance Technician 2nd Shift: M-F, 3:30pm-12:00am

Summary: Performs all the duties of an Industrial Maintenance Technician, fault find and repair, installs and replaces electrical equipment and appliances following safe working procedures and 6s methodology.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following, but not limited to:

• Utilizes electrical and mechanical knowledge to maintain, repair and implement improvements to department robotics, material handling, and computerized storage and retrieval system controlled via PLC's and limit switches.
• Reads and understands blueprints, schematics, and technical drawings.
• Conducts tests to locate mechanical system malfunction.
• Observes mechanical devices in operation and listens to their sounds to locate causes of trouble.
• Dismantles devices to gain access to and remove defective parts.
• Examines form and texture of parts to detect imperfections.
• Inspects used parts to determine changes in dimensional requirements.
• Adjusts functional parts of devices and control instruments.
• Repairs or replaces defective parts.
• Installs special functional and structural parts in devices.
• Lubricates and cleans parts.
• Uses machine tools in installation, maintenance or repair.
• Starts devices to test their performance.
• Sets up and operates lathe, drill press, grinder, and other metalworking tools to make and repair parts.
• Initiates purchase order for parts and machines.
• Repairs electrical equipment.
• Utilizes braze-welding equipment as needed.
• Maintains repair records.
• Maintains a clean and orderly maintenance shop.
• Adheres to safety procedures

Technician/Maintenance Objectives:

• Maximize Operating Availability (OA) at asset's known quality and run speed capability.
• Through effective deployment of preventive (PM) and predictive (PdM) maintenance tasks.
• Through timely correction of deteriorated equipment condition utilizing quality work practices and parts to minimize life cycle costs. By restoring flow safely as quickly as possible.
• Intolerance to repeat failures.
• Problem-solve to root cause and eliminate failure mode.
• * Implement preplanned countermeasures and Crash Kits for failures that are in process of being eliminated or are not cost effective to eliminate.
• Apply learning from problem solving to other equipment or process.
• Eliminate waste:
  
  
  
  • Through respectful feedback to others
  • Through job observations.
  • Through daily maintenance meetings.
  • Through improvement activities.
  
  
  
  

Technician/Maintenance Principles

• If something, important to our success, needs to occur; provision for it to occur must exist in our organization (people, process and time).
• We are all equally important to the success of this business; only our roles and accountabilities differ.
• If something is worth doing, it is worth documenting and practicing improving, until we can't improve it anymore.
• Standard Work
• Experimentation
• Job Observation
• Reflection Meeting
• Take pride in getting the right results using the right methods. We will take no pride in doing it ourselves as we believe asking for help, when needed, is a character strength.
• Breakdown silos to get business results.
• Our diversity is a strength that can differentiate us
• It is important to improve and find solutions through collaboration and sharing of information to get results.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

High school diploma plus two years college level courses or equivalent. Minimum five years related experience in maintenance of hi-tech computerized systems and equipment.

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization. Bilingual (English & Spanish) preferred.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability

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.

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 90 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to extreme heat. The employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, high, precarious places, and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud