HVAC​/Maintenance Mechanic

Maintain, analyze, troubleshoot, install, and repair complex, specialized machines and equipment in accordance with established manufacturing procedures to achieve efficiency, quality and optimum production objectives. The duties are performed utilizing experience in at least two skilled trades including but not limited to, production and facility machinery and equipment, electronics and electrical, automation and controls, HVAC, plumbing, pipe fitting, carpentry, energy, and utilities, etc.

• Follow and commit to meet Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for safety, quality, production, efficiency, and service requirements
• Follow practices and processes intended to provide safe products that comply with appropriate laws and regulations, meet the company quality standards
• Follow and commit to safety and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)
• Install, diagnose, analyze, maintain, modify, repair and/or rebuild a variety of complex and specialized plant and facility equipment related to HVAC and refrigeration.
• The HVAC Technician is responsible for maintaining, repairing, and optimizing industrial HVAC, refrigeration, ventilation, and process cooling systems to support safe, efficient, and reliable plant operations. This role performs scheduled inspections, preventive maintenance, filter replacements, refrigerant checks, motor lubrication, and equipment performance verification. The technician diagnoses and resolves mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and control system issues while responding promptly to equipment failures to minimize downtime.
• Additional responsibilities include monitoring ventilation, exhaust, dust collection, and air quality systems while ensuring compliance with OSHA regulations, environmental standards, refrigerant handling requirements, lockout/tagout procedures, and company safety policies. The technician maintains accurate maintenance records, documents repairs and parts usage, and utilizes diagnostic tools, technical manuals, schematics, and wiring diagrams to support continuous improvement initiatives and equipment reliability.
• Repair equipment during mechanical breakdowns or assist other staff in repairs
• Perform root cause analysis
• Understand precedence relationships (e.g. sequence of events)
• Assist production personnel in change-over and set‑ups
• Dismantle defective machines and equipment to gain access to problem areas or to install new or repaired parts
• May perform one or more of the following responsibilities within production or facilities maintenance:
• Diagnose and repair complex machine and electrical problems, including multiple components on the same production line that are interlinked, assembly mechanisms or automated controls machines
• Troubleshoot and analyze control systems to resolve software/ hardware and configuration
• Communicate with operators to detect equipment problems and to ascertain whether mechanical or human error contributed to the problems
• Layout, assemble, install, and maintain pipe systems and related hydraulic and pneumatic equipment. Repair and replace gauges, valves, pressure regulators and related equipment.
• Assist machinist / fabricators in fabricating parts
• Read and interpret blueprints, drawings, sketches, and work orders in order to plan, layout and complete work
• Install, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, physical structures, and plumbing/electrical systems
• Use tools ranging from common hand tools and power tools, such as hammers, saws, drills, and wrenches, to precision measuring instruments, and electrical and electronic devices
• Operate Powered Industrial Truck (PIT), hoist, crane, and aerial lift
• Inspect, operate, or test faulty machinery, equipment, programmable controllers, and motors to diagnose machine malfunctions, using…