Maintenance Mechanic

SUMMARY:

To install, changeover, maintain, and repair plant equipment (either processing, packaging, or support equipment) to optimize quality, productivity, and safety.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Perform regular and preventive maintenance on equipment to eliminate unscheduled downtime.
• Perform changeovers in an efficient and timely manner.
• Fabricate materials or rebuild parts to maintain and upgrade equipment as required.
• Take corrective action as required by initiated work orders through the MVP or as circumstances dictate and write new work orders to account for unplanned corrective maintenance time.
• Interpret basic blueprints, schematics, and exploded parts diagrams.
• Initiate purchase of required parts, and materials to support asset care program.
• Use proper lockout/tagout, confined space, and hot works permits to maintain a safe environment and comply with EHS regulatory procedures.
• Make recommendations for equipment upgrades and modifications, as well as mechanical safety procedures.
• Upgrade skills and knowledge as equipment and technology develops.
• Perform all work to reflect a personal commitment to quality craftsmanship and job ownership.
• Notify Supervisor of mechanical breakdowns that will take ten (10) minutes or more to repair.
• Become familiar with PLC's (Programmable Logic Controls) and ladder logic.
• Report health/safety hazards to immediate supervisor or EHS Department and make appropriate repairs.
• Participate in team process and maintain good customer, supplier, and employee relationships.
• Perform all work in accordance with GMP's, housekeeping, good safety practices, and environmental regulations.

ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT MECHANIC FUNCTIONS:

• Learn basic computer skills as needed.
• Initiate purchase of required tools, parts, and materials utilizing the material request form.
• Make recommendations for equipment upgrades and modifications as necessary.
• Assist other mechanics as required.
• Perform carpentry, plumbing, or masonry work as required.
• Some process/facility mechanics may be required to coordinate vendors and all work activities to completion as associated with various projects as assigned.
• Perform other duties as assigned by your supervisor or business needs.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each Essential Function and Additional Important Function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read and comprehend complex instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write standard correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization. Ability to read and interpret workplace graphics, tables, maps, instrument gauges, and diagrams.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. Ability to look up and calculate single-step conversions within systems of measurement (e.g. converting from ounces to pounds or from centimeters to meters) or between systems of measurement.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The employee is regularly required to be mobile in order to make rounds on the production floor and remain visible in the work area.
• The employee is regularly required to operate power tools, hand tools, and ensure that the machines remain operational.
• The employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms in order to weld, grind, and remove/install valves and gearboxes.
• The employee is regularly required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl in order to repair machines, broken chains, and to lift heavy items.
• The employee is regularly required to communicate with operators and supervision.
• The employee is regularly required to listen to machinery for abnormal sounds while performing preventative maintenance and walk-arounds.
• The employee is regularly required to work in confined areas, elevated areas, often in difficult or strained positions.
• The employee may be required to climb ladders up to 30 feet high and perform work at this height.
• The employee is occasionally required to taste product.
• The employee is occasionally required to smell for burned wiring, lubricants, ammonia, and chlorine.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds without assistance and occasionally lift over 50 pounds with assistance (i.e. lift with another person or with equipment).
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. These vision requirements are needed in order to inspect machinery for the preventive maintenance program.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet, cold and/or humid conditions and moving mechanical parts.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions such as working on the roof or on piping; extreme cold; extreme heat as some confined space entry may be hot; risk of electrical shock; and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.