Multicraft Maintenance Tech

Consider joining the Pennex family as a Maintenance Technician at our Leetonia, OH location. In this role, the Maintenance Technician will be responsible for the repair and maintenance of all production and facilities equipment, ensuring optimal performance and minimal downtime. This position must have excellent diagnostic abilities and repair skills across various fields, including mechanical systems, welding, hydraulics, pneumatics, combustion, and electrical systems.

The Maintenance Technician must have familiarity with PLC troubleshooting.

This is a night shift position from 6pm to 6am with rotating weekends.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Responds to service calls from all departments involving breakdowns to diagnose and repair equipment as required. Responsible for prioritizing repairs with input and direction from plant leadership.

Diagnoses malfunctioning apparatus and discusses it with other maintenance technicians including Maintenance Supervisor. Diagnoses and repairs or replaces faulty hydraulic or pneumatic components; mechanical components, including but not limited to bearings, couplings, etc; combustion components; and electronic components, including but not limited to, power supplies, processor, printed circuit boards, etc.

Performs scheduled preventive maintenance (P.M.) on plant equipment including, but not limited to, extrusion presses and auxiliary equipment, melting furnace, casting unit, billet saw, homogenizing furnace, etc.

Conducts daily inspection of the operation of the air compressors and compressed air system including maintenance of oil levels, air filters, dryer operation, etc.

Conducts daily inspection of the operation of the cooling water system including maintenance of the water level, water quality, water filtration, etc.

Performs daily inspection of the operation of the extrusion presses including maintenance of the oil levels, oil leaks, billet heater operation, cutoff saw operation, transfer operation, stretcher operation, etc.

Installs and/or modifies equipment in cooperation with leadership to improve the reliability, simplify the operation, improve operational safety, etc.

Complete tasks in a timely manner relative to CMMS.Follows company rules, regulations and policies regarding work and safety practices.

Maintains a neat and orderly work area including general housekeeping of the work area upon completion of a repair. Assists with general housekeeping of the maintenance area.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Ideal Candidate Will Have:

Education Associate's degree (A.

A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school

Experience

Five or more years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience should include welding competency, hydraulic and pneumatic circuit components, knowledge of relay logic components, PLC logic components, bearing, gear reducers, equipment alignment and piping installation.

Five to seven years in a manufacturing environment.

Two to five years electrical experience required.

Five to seven years electrical experience preferred.

Other Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, and electrical measurement instrumentation.

Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Ability to use measuring devices, rulers, micrometers, etc.

Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Ability to read maintenance blueprints, hydraulic schematics, ladder diagrams and bill of materials.

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