General Maintenance - 2nd Shift Job Kalamazoo area,Michigan USA,Trades / Skilled Labor

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we've enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose - Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow - comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

At Parker Aerospace, we develop technologies and innovative solutions that enable reliable, efficient and increasingly sustainable flight for the lifecycle of the aircraft, including aftermarket support. Our passionate people with deep engineering expertise, together with our breadth of differentiated technologies, ensure that we make the extraordinary happen and continue to shape the future of aviation in partnership with our customers.

As a member of our team, you are instrumental in fulfilling our mission: 'Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow.' Pursuing a career at Parker presents unlimited opportunities for both professional and personal development. Working with some of the most brilliant minds in the industry, your contributions will be pivotal in developing innovative technologies and products, significantly contributing to Parker's goal of addressing the world's most pressing engineering challenges.

At Parker, our team members belong, matter and make a difference.

General Maintenance

Performs general maintenance and cleaning work. Performs all general tasks relating to maintenance of building, grounds, and equipment maintenance. Troubleshoots and repairs hydraulic systems, electrical problems and mechanical failures to machines, equipment and buildings. Prepare and paint all types of machinery, office equipment, factory facilities and buildings.

Must have experience as a general maintenance person or a minimum of four to five years' experience in the building, grounds, and equipment maintenance area.

Must have the experience and knowledge in the following areas:
Carpentry, masonry, pipe fitting, welding, plumbing, heating & air conditioning, and pneumatic equipment.

Must be able to establish working procedures to carry out diversified tasks in the most efficient manner.

Must be physically capable of performing the tasks required in this job (i.e., comfortable working at heights).

Must have the aptitude for & ability to acquire a basic knowledge of maintenance work & tools.

Working Procedures

Works under general supervision

Works in the following areas as required:
Carpentry, masonry, pipe fitting, welding, plumbing, minor repairs to heating and air conditioning equipment, low pressure hydraulic and pneumatic equipment and machinery moving.

Assists in loading or unloading machinery, equipment, or material.

Moves stock, chips, shavings, or other related tasks.

Cleans machinery, equipment, or building fixtures as needed

Assists in various building, grounds, and equipment maintenance functions as directed by supervision.

Determines proper method or chemicals to be used to prepare area or objects for painting.

Prepares area or objects to be painted by cleaning, scraping, washing, sanding, etc.

Selects and mixes proper primers and paints to proper consistency depending on method of application.

Applies paint by appropriate method for job, airless spraying, conventional spraying, roller or brush.

Applies drywall and patching compounds.

Must troubleshoot and repair various types of hydraulic systems.

Must be capable of troubleshooting. Must be capable of performing related maintenance in connection with the general maintenance of the buildings, grounds, and equipment.

Must interpret and work from blueprints, specifications, sketches and written or oral instructions. Must be able to operate various tools required to perform the above tasks.

Must be able to pass all tests given by the Company.

Participates in "continuous improvement" activities/efforts with the classification/department.

The above statements reflect the general details considered necessary to describe…


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