2a USA is looking for multi-craft Machine maintenance techs to join our team. This is a multi-craft environment so you will need to be skilled in electrical controls, mechanical, hydraulic, welding & general fabrication. Our Machine Maintenance Techs are tasked with maintaining a selection of our high-pressure die-cast machines.

These positions are on 2nd and 3rd shifts (will train on 1st shift).

Duties and responsibilities:

• Assure that machines and equipment are kept in a safe operating condition.
• Provide technical expertise and training in the die casting department to ensure company and departmental goals are continually achieved.
• Create Preventative Maintenance procedures and schedule.
• Train maintenance techs to maintain machines.
• Perform general preventive maintenance (PM) and make machine/equipment repairs as needed.
• Maintains record of all PM and other work performed.
• Troubleshoot equipment, by inspecting and analyzing electronic, hydraulic, and mechanic devices of the machines.
• Make emergency repairs as safely and quickly as possible so as to maximize machine and equipment availability to production.
• Assist operators and other key personnel (as specified) with training to better operate and soft maintain and clean the equipment, within the scope of their responsibility.
• Monitor instruments and gauges to verify proper machines operating conditions.
• Efficiently install accessory devices to equipment such as ladles or crucibles, holding furnaces, hot oil units, thermal cameras, etc.
• Repair and maintain metal processing equipment.
• Using pluriannual experience, identify common equipment fails that could impact either production scraps or machines uptime and cycle time and create a specific predictive and preventative maintenance plan and records to be executed by the appointed die casting technicians.
• Promote in the die casting organization the use of innovative solutions to perform more efficient repairs, to limit the downtime, and in general to improve the OEE performances.
• Will have cross-functional knowledge/experience with mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, PLC controls and relay systems.