NU Maintenance Technician-IL MSLN

Job Description

Job Summary /

Purpose:

Repairs, installs, and maintains all plant machinery and equipment to eliminate downtime and achieve maximum production efficiencies by performing the following duties.

Starting pay $34.40/hr

Essential Responsibilities

• Participate/support the RMP (Risk Management Process) and assist in the development of the system and operational standards and corrective actions.
• Install and maintain all plant manufacturing and packaging machinery and equipment to eliminate downtime and achieve maximum production efficiencies.
• Perform preventative maintenance checks and repairs.
• Record daily maintenance activities, PM’s, and work orders.
• Ability to repair, rebuild or overhaul equipment.
• Welding.
• Install or repair facilities lights, wiring, machinery motors, electrical panels, breakers, airlines, water lines, or gas lines as needed.
• Relocate existing lights, plumbing, or electrical lines as needed.
• Training and Safety – Provide a safe and healthful work environment for all personnel through consistent support of the company’s KHMS processes.
• Interprets company policies to workers and enforces policies and safety regulations.
• Must be able to work flexible hours; days, afternoons, midnights, overtime and weekends as necessary.
• As necessary, other duties and/or projects may be assigned.

Education and Experience

• Two-year certificate from college or technical school; or two to four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• Ability to use a full range of precision measuring and gauging tools to perform inspection of equipment.
• Knowledge of AC/DC variable frequency drives, motor control, hydraulics, pneumatics, pipe fitting.
• Ability to read and interpret maintenance manuals, schematics and blueprints.
• Ability to use hand tools and trades type tools.
• Basic knowledge of electrical, plumbing and refrigeration.
• May be asked to develop and complete welding projects by analyzing work orders, prints, and completed assemblies; (Stainless and Aluminum); (TIG and ARC); and maintains USDA required welding techniques;
• Analyze mechanical and operational problems on assigned equipment and plan for and take corrective action. Make necessary corrections and running adjustments to maintain maximum production and quality.
• Makes preventative maintenance check and inspection of assigned equipment, Reports findings to supervisor and takes appropriate action.
• Inspect used parts to determine changes in dimensional requirements.
• Assures MRO orders accurately and timely.
• Sets up and operates lathe, drill press, grinder, and other metal working tools to make the repair parts.
• Ability to multitask and work in a team oriented fast-paced environment.
• Ability to identify and solve problems.
• Ability to react positively to changes in priorities
• Computer literate, ability to learn new software programs
• Demonstrated ability to understand technical details
• Ability to develop technical solutions to problems and system failures
• Demonstrated ability to sequence tasks to accomplish work
• Self-starter.
  
  Plans and accomplishes work with minimal supervision
• Highly resilient to varying workloads and requests for service
• Highly motivated to find solutions to improve facility
• Demonstrate reliability and good work ethics, quality work performance, attention to detail is a must, and maintain a good working relationship with all other departments.
• Ability to multitask and work in a team oriented fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal, and organizational skills and must be detail and process oriented.
• Must have the ability to exercise considerable judgment and be able to identify and solve problems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential as this position will be interacting with various departments within the company
• Must be able to work flexible hours; days, afternoons, midnights, and weekend work.
• Detail and process oriented.
• As necessary, projects or other duties may be assigned.

Physical/Mental Requirements

• Ability to stand, walk, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch and crawl.
• Ability to use hands/arms to reach, handle, or feel objects, tools or…