Workshop Mechanic

Workshop Mechanic General Info

• Job Type: Full-Time
• Location: Four Seasons Environmental, Inc.
  
  - National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility:
  Manhattan, Kansas
• Pay: $32.98/hr. plus fringe benefit of $9.87/hr.
• Hours: Monday to Friday - Time TBD
• Benefits:
  • Medical Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Retirement Benefit - 401(k) with match
  • Disability Insurance

The candidate will work closely with the Maintenance Mechanic Supervisor of the Work Shops Group and staff in planning the day-to-day activities which involve maintaining, repairing and alterations of facilities. This involves working with a variety of equipment to ensure safe and proper operations.

Performs maintenance and repair of electrical wiring systems, related switches, distribution panels, and controllers. Inspects, maintains, cleans, troubleshoots, repairs, tests, and adjusts a wide variety of electrical equipment, components, tools, and appliances. All work must comply with the National Electric Code. Following maintenance schedules, inspections, or work orders, performs maintenance services, diagnoses system or equipment malfunction and makes repairs as necessary.

Troubleshoots malfunctioning equipment and performs inspections of the electrical equipment to eliminate any possible hazards and to ensure that electrical installations are kept in proper condition for maximum service. Rewires electrical systems and lighting systems, circuits, and essential wiring, including all types of switches, multi-breakers, panels and switch gear, as needed. The work involves industrial and research related circuitry. Performs duties from layouts prepared personally, uses building plans, blueprints, wiring diagrams, engineering drawing, repair manual and electrical codes.

There are a large number of diversified electrical equipment and components that are beyond the normal building electrical hardware and must be maintained at all times. Tests circuits and equipment by use of voltmeter, amp meter, wattmeter, meggers, ohmmeter, capacitor tests, and oscilloscope. Measures, cuts, threads, bends, assembles, and installs conduits, inserting, splicing, and connecting wires to fixtures, outlets, switches, receptacles, and power source.

Removes and replaces obsolete equipment and components. Makes alterations to basic equipment as required. Installs, tests, maintains, adjusts, and repairs electrical controllers.

Representative examples of equipment worked on are security gates, Pneumatic seal APR doors and hardware, Fire doors, hydraulic ballads, drop down gates, tornado doors, appliances, refrigerators, water filters, ice machines, autoclaves, and overhead doors. Examines equipment to determine extent of repair required, disassembles a variety of equipment, requisitions parts, repairs or replaces damaged parts or components, reassembles equipment, and performs a final operational check‑out to assure that equipment functions properly.

Inspects, maintains, and repairs all components of the pneumatic APR door system. Works from plans, sketches, and detailed specifications.

Diagnoses, repairs, and tests various complex hydraulic and pneumatic components such as hydromechanical fuel control subassemblies, pressure regulators, fuel booster pumps, speed controls, and water injection pumps. Makes qualitative evaluations of internal seals and leak rates of components, checking all parts for critical dimensions, analyzing the causes of failures and making necessary repairs and adjustments to render the components serviceable within required specifications.

Maintains information of the refrigeration cycle of a variety of refrigeration and air conditioning systems to make checks for proper functioning and required repair.

Diagnoses, repairs and maintains industrial air conditioning and refrigeration units and systems, water filters, and ice machines, and monitors refrigeration cycle and temperature measurements.

Repairs a wide variety of other complex machinery and equipment and in the use of various machining tools to accomplish repairs. As required, fabricates replacement parts which are not readily…