Plant Maintenance

Summary: Installs, maintains, and repairs machinery, equipment, physical structures, and pipe and electrical systems in industrial establishments by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Visually inspects and tests machinery and equipment.
• Listens for unusual sounds from machines or equipment to detect malfunction and discusses machine operation variations with supervisors or other maintenance workers to diagnose problem or repair machine.
• Dismantles defective machines and equipment and installs new or repaired parts.
• Cleans and lubricates shafts, bearings, gears, and other parts of machinery.
• 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.
• Operates cutting torch or welding equipment to cut or join metal parts.
• Fabricates and repairs counters, benches, partitions, and other wooden structures.
• Responsible for the preventive maintenance for all the equipment in the plant, including building Preventive Maintenance.
• Troubleshoots and replaces defective electrical apparatus, such as switches, relays, motors, and electrical and electronic components of machinery equipment.
• Responsible for ordering and/or notifying the designated person to order the parts related to maintenance.

Qualifications:

• Must have welding and cutting torch skills to work with metal to repair and maintain plant machinery and equipment. Ability perform small fabricating jobs in plant.
• Must have basic electric wiring understanding to trouble shoot and repair. Skills helpful include: checking a motor or fuse disconnects box for continuity, replacing electric eyes, replacing motor leads, and using a voltage meter in a 480 volt, three-phase environment.
• Overtime and Saturday work will be mandatory if events or emergencies so dictate.
• Must be able to perform preventative maintenance chores such as cleaning chutes and changing dust house filter bags as needed.
• Must adhere to strict safety policies/procedures including lockout-tagout, confined space, fall protection, respiratory protection and all other applicable safety policies incurred performing work duties.
• Requires good communication skills and must be able to work in a team environment.
• Able to work with management to help improve and maintain a good preventative maintenance program.
• Needs to be self-motivated and have the ability to work alone at times in an unsupervised atmosphere.

Education and/or Experience:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in air compressor systems and air solenoid valves and their operation

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 detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands:

• Be able to climb, lift up to 50lbs unassisted.

Work Environment:

• Job requires climbing and working in high places on plant equipment occasionally.
• Ability to work around moving parts on machines, in all types of weather, various heights and in enclosed spaces.