Predictive Maintenance Technician

Predictive Maintenance Technician

As a Predictive Maintenance Technician supporting our manufacturing client in Savannah, GA, you will support the reliability programs that identify and mitigate risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations. You will provide technical leadership and expertise in terms of life cycle asset management, implementation, and associated practices, to ensure maximum possible equipment reliability at minimum life cycle cost. You will monitor and evaluate asset/equipment condition, and apply invasive and non-invasive practices/technologies in accordance with the identified asset management plans.

Using modern predictive techniques, you will monitor equipment for early signs of deteriorating conditions, provide early prediction and failure analysis, and recommend/direct intervention methods that plan, schedule, and correct the identified deficiencies.

• Support the development of equipment system and location hierarchies, including walking down plant systems, creating equipment lists, critical spares lists, bills of materials, and capturing pertinent data to build or modify CMMS and PdM databases.
• Support criticality analysis activities and assist in determining risk priority numbers for equipment.
• Participate in RCM, SFMEA, RCA, RCFA activities for systems and equipment.
• Teach and perform precision alignment, balancing, vibration monitoring, oil sampling, thickness measurement, thermography, and other practices leading to the reliable life of equipment.
• Develop equipment predictive/preventative maintenance plans that contain failure modes mapped to technologies or tasks.
• Lead preventative/condition-based maintenance and support all Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) activities.

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in predictive maintenance/reliability technician related processes.
• Multiple certifications/training in predictive technologies and be a level 2 in at least one of them, with a willingness to continually pursue knowledge and certifications in reliability and predictive technologies.
• Practical experience in the application and interpretation of multiple predictive/preventative technologies/tools, including:
• Vibration analysis
• Thermography:
  Mechanical, Electrical
• Ultrasonic thickness, ultrasonic noise:
  Mechanical, Electrical, Air
• Lubrication sampling and analysis
• Power/motor circuit analysis
• Machine alignment and balancing
• Competence in one or more areas of maintenance and reliability, material management, planning and scheduling, and/or CMMS/EAM/ERP optimization.
• Understanding of risk-based asset management and use of reliability data analysis techniques and metrics like MTBF, MTTR, OEE, Six Sigma, SPC, etc.
• Team player who champions and supports the reliability process, communicates and builds relationships with functional, engineering, and business leaders to support continuous improvement.
• Accountable and demonstrates leadership in implementing reliability technician processes of the asset management plans.
• Effective communication skills and experience with office and reliability productivity tools.
• Strong mechanical and electrical knowledge, and knowledge of equipment design, service, operation, purchase, assembly, installation, maintenance, and repair.
• Understanding of Asset Management and its various components and organization.
• Able to build relationships with functional, engineering, and business leaders to drive continuous improvement and project development.
• Ability to communicate, teach, and mentor best practice condition monitoring and precision methods.
• Willing to challenge peers and customers to accept and apply new approaches and technologies.
• Self-starter capable of managing multiple priorities with minimal oversight, working as a single entity with the ability to influence others to gain alignment.

• Regular physical activity including walking, climbing stairs, bending, stooping, reaching, lifting (up to 30 pounds), and standing; occasional prolonged sitting.
• Ability to speak, read, hear and write, with or without assistance.
• Ability to use phone…