Maintenance Technician

Job Summary

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.

Essential Functions

• 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 tool, 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

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

• Must have the ability to 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.

Other details

• Pay Type Hourly

• Hiring Rate $27.42

• Job Start Date Thursday, October 5, 2023

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• Oil-Dri Production Company, PO Box 476, Ripley, Mississippi, United States of America