Maintenance Technician - Festus, MO

Maintenance Technician

SUMMARY: Maintenance Technicians perform preventive and corrective maintenance on plant equipment, troubleshoot systems, and support operations in a heavy industrial environment. The role ensures safe, reliable operation of machinery in compliance with MSHA standards.

PURPOSE OF POSITION: To perform a combination of duties mainly related to mechanical maintenance throughout the plant, in a pleasant, professional, safe, and efficient manner.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Interprets and works from prints and technical instructions.
• Furnishes and uses own complement of hand tools, company tools and equipment.
• Keeps work area and equipment neat and clean.
• Subject to shift work.
• Installs, tests, maintains, and repairs all mechanical equipment in accordance with regulations and specifications; fits, assembles, erects, installs, maintains, and repairs mechanical plant and equipment.
• Inspects, tests, and aligns testing equipment throughout the plant.
• Installs, troubleshoots, adjusts, services, maintains, and repairs mechanical equipment for various types of lifts and conveyor belts.
• Possesses a working knowledge of maintenance and welding.
• Maintains machines and equipment in efficient operating condition; performs duties such as dismantling, moving, installing, commissioning, adjusting or repairing machines, power shafting, pulleys, conveyors, hoists, and other equipment.
• Uses hoist dollies, rollers, tracks, and cranes (overhead and mobile) to aid in moving machinery; uses wrenches, hammers, and other hand tools for erecting or dismantling machines and installing new or repair parts; uses measuring devices such as squares to ensure correct positioning and alignment of power shafting and pulleys.
• Performs material alteration in field such as framing, cutting, bending, drilling, and burning.
• Can work in confined spaces, heights, or for prolonged durations in various climates.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Sitting, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, twisting, climbing, crawling, balancing, bending, kneeling, reaching, grasping, squatting, repetitive motions, manipulative finger movements, use of wrists, use of feet, use of arms above and below shoulders, handling up to 100 lbs., working in all climates, dust, fumes, gases, and chemicals.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: Includes climbing ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, and poles; balancing on narrow or slippery surfaces; stooping; walking long distances on foot to accomplish tasks.

SENSORY ABILITIES: General vision, hearing, listening, and speaking clearly.

PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT: Safety glasses, steel‑toe safety shoes, hard hat, hearing protection, and respirator use.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS: Moderate to extreme climate conditions, dust, chemical and gas fumes, confined spaces, pressure/stress, rapid work pace.

PRE‑EMPLOYMENT:

• Skills and technical test.
• Medical physical examination.
• Drug testing including THC.

STARTING SALARY: $36.45/hr (Union, MSHA)

Location:

St. Louis, MO