Job Description: As a Maintenance Technician you perform the preventative maintenance plan for equipment including preparing, setting-up, and recalibrating molding equipment and machinery. Below are additional duties and responsibilities:
- Serve as a good role model to employees for safe work practices and behavior by conducting yourself professionally, keeping in mind your own safety and the safety of others.
- Learn and master all necessary areas of the quality system.
- Follow Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Good Documentation Practices (GDP).
- Perform mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic repairs on production and support equipment.
- Follow preventative maintenance plan for molding equipment on a daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annual, and annual schedule, or per customer requests.
- May prepare and set up machinery for scheduled production runs.
- Re-calibrate molding machinery per annual preventative maintenance plan.
- Complete maintenance issues as they arise and complete necessary documentation for each assignment.
- Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production and perform scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service.
- Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
- Ability to work independently on assigned tasks as well as to accept direction on given assignments.
- Resolve auxiliary equipment issues as they arise.
- Any other duties as assigned.
Experience and Skills A qualified Maintenance Technician candidate would fulfill these requirements:
- Completion of an accredited two-year technical college program, in a related field of study, or a four-year university program, in a related field of study; and three to five years related experience, or accrued on-the-job training and experience.
- Ability to perform mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic troubleshooting and repair of production machines.
- Understanding of basic hydraulic and electrical systems along with proper safety issues.
- Understanding of electrical and hydraulic prints.
- Basic understanding of ladder logic or PLC programming.
- Understand and utilize general safety knowledge within the work environment.