Maintenance - Maintenance Technician

Maintenance Technician - Nights

MATALCO – We are North America’s largest independent aluminum billet and slab provider, using recycled aluminum and state-of-the art technology. We are currently seeking candidates to fill a night shift opening at our Franklin, KY plant for our multi-craft maintenance department, a team that’s key to keeping us up and running!

You will:

• Work safely and smartly, following our procedures, safety protocols, and training.
• Install, inspect, adjust, and repair equipment.
• Use your expertise when responding to production needs and equipment failures.
• Recommend improvements to processes and procedures.
• Perform all preventative and predictive maintenance and repairs to all equipment, ensuring proper service of equipment to maintain its planned lifespan.
• Monitor operations through PM checks to anticipate and prevent production loss due to equipment failure.
• Respond quickly to breakdowns and safety concerns, resolving issues and keeping downtime to a minimum.
• Report deviations, out of service or non-conforming equipment or operations for the team to make corrections or adjustments to processes and equipment.
• Maintain a spare parts warehouse to ensure all crucial parts and components, including consumables, are on hand at a moment’s notice.

Preferred Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in automation, controls, engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Min. 2 years of experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment or foundry industry or maintenance experience within an aluminum or hot metal industry.
• Excellent understanding of hydraulics, pneumatics, combustion, electrical and mechanical maintenance.
• Excellent working knowledge of PM.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• 100% commitment to following safety requirements.
• Experience maintaining cranes and performing crane inspections.
• Strong math, reading, and blueprint reading skills.
• Solid understanding of PLCs as well as PM software utilization.
• Excellent critical thinking skills, essential to fixing production equipment and manufacturing system issues.
• Physical endurance and the ability to manage several urgent tasks at once.
• Reliable and stable work attendance.
• Basic PC understanding preferred and an ability to learn Windows/web-based programs.
• Capable of safely rigging and moving some heavy equipment components.
• Hands on experience using preventative maintenance system software.
• A team player capable of working with minimal supervision.
• Effective communication skills with operators, leaders, and vendors/partners.
• OSHA/KYOSH helpful.

 When will you work?

• We are a 24/7 company. Our maintenance team works 12-hour shifts on a rotating 2-2-3 schedule, which means you will work some weekends and holidays. It also means you are generally scheduled to work 15 days a month and off 15 days a month. We are filling a 6p-6a shift.

Where will you work, and what’s the physical environment like?

• Our production facility in Franklin, KY.
• High frequency visually monitoring production processes for quality defects and of HMI and PLC panels.
• Regular frequency of visually monitoring scrap conditions/types.
• Frequent data entry of necessary information.
• Frequent visual and audio monitoring of processes.
• Low frequency of hot metal work, confined space entry, and lifting up to 50 lbs.
• Low frequency using forklift/mobile equipment.
• Low frequency lifting, bending, pushing, pulling, walking, and reaching into/working in tight areas.
• Low frequency climbing over four feet.
• Low frequent operation of overhead crane.
• Mostly indoor work with exposure to outside elements, including some outdoor work.
• Long-term exposure to variable ambient temperatures and to loud noises.
• Some exposure to fumes.
• Some work in confined spaces.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive pay based upon your skills and experience; tell us what pay you seek.
• $1.00 per hour shift differential.
• Eligible for monthly safety, training, and KPI incentives.
• Benefits: medical, dental, vision, company paid life insurance, company paid short- and long-term disability, uniforms, safety shoes (up to $200), health savings account, paid vacation, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, hefty employee referral program.