Maintenance Specialist

Job Description                                                                   

Job Title:  Maintenance Specialist

Location:  Ripley

Department: Maintenance 

Reports To:  Maintenance Manager

Job Overview: 

Primary duties include providing safe and timely mechanical and electrical support, preventative maintenance, installation, service, repair, troubleshooting, and resolution of multiple operating machines within a manufacturing industrial environment.

Responsibilities:

• Conducts all work in a safe, efficient manner, using appropriate tools, according to established safety rules and practices while striving for ZERO Accidents.

• Encourages Safety First, identification of Near Misses along with appropriate corrective actions. 

• Installs, maintains, and repairs plant machinery, equipment, and physical structures.

• Diagnoses failures in machinery or equipment and makes necessary repairs. 

• Visually inspects and tests machinery and equipment using electrical and electronic test equipment. 

• Performs and documents preventative maintenance. 

• Follows specifications, blueprints, manuals, and schematic drawings and lockout/tag out procedures to make repairs. 

• Performs repairs by skillfully using hand tools, power tools, hoist, crane, and measuring and testing instruments. 

• Performs plumbing and pipe fitting and related work in installing, repairing, or routing water, sewage, air, and gas pipes. 

• Documents repair procedures and parts used from inventory and maintain accurate inventory of tools and equipment. 

• Performs welding, acetylene brazing, cutting torch, routine layout and other duties as needed. 

• Keeps areas clean and free of clutter.

• Available for On Call Duty

• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications: 

Education: 

• HS Diploma or equivalent required.

• Minimum two (2) years technical degree in a related field or electrical/mechanical experience preferred.  

Skills & Abilities:

• Must effectively use CMMS.

• Mobile equipment operating skills, such as forklifts, crane, front-end loader etc. preferred 

• Must be able to work independently with limited supervision.

• Fabrication skills preferred.  

• Must be able to read and understand manuals, parts, diagrams, schematic drawings, and blueprints. 

• Must demonstrate the ability to perform maintenance skills.

• Electrical tasks such as changing motors.

• Demonstrated ability to perform detail-oriented work.

• Good oral and written communication skills.

• Possess core values of Honesty and Integrity.

• Must be able to stand for the duration of the shift.

• Must be able to lift 50 pounds and assist with lifting heavier weights. 

• Bending, reaching, twisting, stooping, walking, and climbing stairways and ladders frequently.

• Must be able to climb and work at heights greater than 100 feet. 

• Physical endurance to withstand operation of geared equipment and to withstand heavy physical labor required of position.