Maintenance Technician - General 4
Location
Grand Prairie, TX | United States
Job description
Job Title : Maintenance Technician - General 4
Location : Grand Prairie, TX 75050
Duration : 5+ months (temp to perm)
Shift : 2nd shift: 3:00pm - 11:30pm
NOTE : May work a split shift of 1st/2nd temporarily for at least 4 weeks for training purposes.
Description:
- Performs work involving mechanical, plumbing, welding, and electrical trades to keep machinery, equipment, tools, and plant structure in repair.
- Must have a minimum of 4 years of experience.
Essential Functions:
- Operates tools and equipment common to mechanical, plumbing, welding, and electrical trades.
- Troubleshoots hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical control systems to identify symptoms or malfunctions.
- Reads technical manuals, blueprints, control logic diagrams, and schematics to understand complex equipment and controls as necessary.
- Analyzes test results, machine error messages, and machine operator feedback to determine and execute corrective actions.
- Adjusts and calibrates equipment, machines, and tools according to specifications.
- Examines mechanisms for modes of failure and damage (e.g. breakage, excessive wear).
- Installs/replaces parts and/or attachments according to specifications.
- Repairs broken or malfunctioning parts.
- Properly discarded tools/ machine parts are no longer serviceable.
- Performs preventive maintenance (e.g. cleaning, lubricating, adjusting parts, etc.) on machines, equipment, and tools, per specification and PM Checklists.
- Collaborates in the assembly, dismantling, and rigging of machinery.
- Reviews blueprints and building codes and specifications to determine work details and procedures.
- Assembles pipes, sections, tubing, and fittings.
- Installs, connects, tests, and maintains electrical or electronic wiring, equipment, appliances, apparatus, and fixtures.
- Joins metal components or other weld able material by applying appropriate welding techniques.
- Washes, cleans, sharpens, calibrates, and /or repairs tools (e.g. pulse and air tool, dies, punches, etc.).
- Plans the ordering of machine parts and tools.
- Issues and exchanges tools to manufacturing workers.
- Upkeeps maintenance records (e.g. issued tools, preventive maintenance, event logs, work requests etc.).
- Cleans and maintains equipment and work area to ensure proper functioning and safe working conditions.
- Performs other work as directed by Supervision.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education: Associate degree in related field plus 3 years of experience in an industrial maintenance type environment or 5 years industrial maintenance work type experience with strong industrial electrical controls emphasis.
- Licensed Electrician or Electrician Journeyman preferred.
- Experience: Industrial maintenance environment working with 480V / 3 phase preferred.
- Specialized Training: Electrical Qualified to work on a control panel.
- Knowledge: Shop math; blueprint and schematic reading; PLC; control logic; and mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and welding concepts.
- Skills: Troubleshooting, use of mechanical/electrical/measuring tools; and intermediate computer skills.
Abilities:
Must be able to speak, read, write, and comprehend the English language.
Must be able to reach, grasp, lift 50 lbs. and push/pull/slide heavy material.
Must be able to make coordinated movements of the hands and arms to grasp and move objects.
Must be able to stoop, bend, squat, crawl, and climb.
Job Specifications:
- Working Conditions: Job involves typically working indoors; being assigned to any of the different shifts; occasionally lifting heavy materials; wearing common safety equipment (e.g. cut resistant gloves and sleeves, apron, safety shoes, safety glasses, ear plugs, etc.); being exposed to loud noises, heat, confined spaces, and the possibility of bumps, cuts, and scrapes.
- Capabilities: The following are behaviors essential to being successful in this job.
- Safety Advocacy: Ability to promote and ensure a safe work environment; identifies, communicates, and eliminates hazards encountered during regular course of work.
- Quality Orientation: Focused on meeting or exceeding the level of excellence of products, services, and work activities measured against pre-set standards; able to identify flaws and take corrective action.
- Cooperation: Willingly assists others by offering guidance, sharing knowledge, teaching skills, or directly performing a task in order to help out. Puts team objectives ahead of personal interests.
- Adaptability: Willingly accepts organizational changes and responds to changes with appropriate urgency and actions. Reacts to anger, frustration, and disappointment constructively (i.e. finding humor in situations; finding solutions to problems, using relaxation techniques; etc.).
- Analytical Thinking: The ability to tackle a problem or task using a logical and systematic approach.
- Mechanical Aptitude: Ability to understand mechanical and physical concepts (e.g. gravity, levers, pulleys, springs, tools); figuring out how objects work and move both individually and in relation to other objects.
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