Maintenance Technician

Job Title: Maintenance Technician       

Department: Operations

Position Overview: The Maintenance Technician is responsible for installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, overhauling and repairing stationary industrial machinery and mechanical equipment. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure safety policies, housekeeping rules and guidelines, quality standards, and standard operating procedures are followed

• Interpret blueprints and schematics when working on machines

• Install, align, dismantle and move stationary industrial machinery and mechanical equipment

• Ability to detect, isolate and identify irregularities and malfunctions in machinery and equipment

• Ability to Troubleshoot PLC’s

• Install, troubleshoot and maintain power transmission, hydraulic, pneumatic and vacuum systems

• Adjust machinery and repair or replace defective parts

• Operate machine tools such as welders, lathes and grinders to fabricate parts required during overhaul, maintenance or set-up of machinery

• Clean, lubricate and perform other maintenance work on machinery

• Assemble machinery and equipment prior to installation using hand and power tools and welding equipment

• Perform preventative maintenance

• Complete all paperwork as required

• Other duties as assigned

Position Requirements:

• High school graduate or equivalent required

• Minimum of 5 years’ mechanical and equipment experience in an industrial environment

• Strong knowledge of health and safety legislation

• Experience in moving, assembling, disassembling, troubleshooting and repairing various types of machinery and equipment

• Able to weld and fabricate new parts to replace defective parts during machine setup, maintenance or overhaul

• Thorough knowledge of load bearing capabilities of the equipment to be installed, assembled or dismembered

• Demonstrated aptitude in reading and interpreting blueprints, diagrams, schematics, drawings, manuals and specifications

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Overtime may be required
• Valid drivers license 
• Travel may be required

Competencies:

• Time management

• Planning and organizing

• Problem solving

• Creative and innovative thinking

• Development and continual learning

• Accountability and dependability

• Decision making and judgment

• Operating equipment

• Mathematical reasoning

• Research and analysis

• Following laws, rules and regulations

• Welding