Maintenance Apprentice; Plumbtree

Job Description:

Job:
Technical Resource Apprentice

Shift: Various

Location:

Mars Petcare (Aurora, Nebraska)

The Technical Resource Apprentice’s role is to learn to provide the production floor leadership with Progressive Maintenance (PM) capability (breakdown elimination) and technical support for delivering the team’s operational targets, such as safety, quality, and efficiency results. This role must proactively identify and action risks to safety, food safety, quality, and production losses. Technical Resources must also lead and coach root-cause problem-solving with the other technicians on their team, effectively communicate priorities, and escalation issues within their area and across shifts.

Technical Resource Apprentices will be taught to understand thoroughly and master Manufacturing Reliability Fundamentals such as Integrated Work Systems (IWS) and the Factory Mars Operating System (FMOS/Daily Direction Setting DDS). This role will support the development and execution of Clean, Inspect, Lubricate (CIL), Center Line (CL), and Defect Management for their assigned area. The Technical Resource is responsible for maintaining standard operating conditions of equipment in their area, plus repair or replacement of failed components, troubleshooting unknown equipment issues, and recommending adjustments to center line operational output.

• Lead and support the culture development of Mars, 5 Principles and Engagement
• Coach Mars safety standards, tools, and techniques
• Identify, evaluate, and eliminate safety risks using behavior-based safety programs and near-miss reporting
• Perform mechanical and electrical preventative maintenance on various manufacturing equipment and electrical panels
• Complete work orders as assigned and proactively look at work orders to complete as time permits
• Document preventative maintenance and work orders using SAP Plant Maintenance
• Troubleshoot and repair routine electrical (such as motor starters, switches, and sensors using multimeters and amp probes) and mechanical (hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical drive systems at the component level) problems on all plant equipment
• Conduct equipment breakdown analysis
• Register parts and create/update PMs to improve the maintenance system
• Participate and sometimes lead Focused Improvement Teams to eliminate losses within the functional area
• Develop/train technicians to grow functional/technical skills, learn troubleshooting and repair skills to operate equipment more efficiently, and understand Autonomous Maintenance activities
• Perform technical tasks such as fabrication, welding, and machinist skills
• Drive delivery at or above the target of the metrics: TRS, production reliability, stop reduction, mean time between failure, defects found and fixed, and work order/PM completion rate
• Support the spare storeroom process and suggest improvements on how to manage spare parts
• Uses IWS tools to achieve zero losses, ensure follow-up to outages, and root cause identification
• Provide technical support to eliminate line top losses and improve the team’s equipment ownership
• 90% on the production floor working with Technicians to deliver results, assisting in equipment setup and changeover
• Member of the Emergency Response Team (ERT)
• Flow to work as needed to meet the business need
• Other job duties as assigned by site leadership

• Understand and adhere to LOTO, Confined Space, and all other plant safety/GMP requirements
• Possess a fundamental understanding of electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical drawings/schematics
• Basic mechanical skills, metalworking, plumbing, pneumatics, and steam fitting
• Basic electrical power and controls, understanding of PLCs
• Conduct hot work permit work as necessary to include grinding and welding
• Ability to problem solve in area of operation utilizing IWS tools (Unified Problem Solving)
• Possesses technical mastery, advanced technical troubleshooting skills in functional area
• Subject Matter Expert for Autonomous Maintenance Step 4 component
• Basic computer skills in AutoCAD, Proficy, Excel, Word, Outlook, LEDS, SAP, Red Prairie, and Nexus
• Effective written and verbal…