What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Tech position at Idaho Forest?
Job Title: Maintenance Technician
We are seeking a skilled Maintenance Technician to join our team at our state-of-the-art sawmill in Lumberton, Mississippi.
The successful candidate will be responsible for installing, repairing, and maintaining all plant machinery and equipment in optimal working conditions.
Essential Functions:
- Prepare machine centers for daily use
- Perform predictive, preventative, and corrective maintenance procedures on manufacturing equipment using cutting, welding, power, and hand tools
- Assemble, install, and repair equipment following blueprints and schematics
- Maintain a production-level work pace
- Comprehend and perform all duties in accordance with rules, regulations, and JSA's
- Ability to work at varying heights
- Must be willing to provide own tools
- Excellent communication skills
- Must be able to work various shifts, days, weekend, and overtime as needed
Qualifications:
- 4,000 hours of verifiable industrial maintenance mechanic experience required
- Certification in hydraulics and pneumatics, crane and rigging, wire and stick welding required
- Working knowledge of industrial equipment
- Knowledge in hydraulics and pneumatics, crane and rigging, wire and stick required
- Proficient in power drive systems, welding, bearings, and lubrication
- Valid Driver's License
- High School diploma or GED
Physical Requirements:
- Move safely, quickly, and perform duties with repetitious movement
- Sit and/or stand for shift, reach with hands and arms, stoop, squat, twist, push, and pull, maintain balance, bend at the waist, kneel, walk varying distances, and climb stairs
- Frequent climbing stairs
- Frequent and repetitive use of upper extremities (i.e. shoulders, arms, wrists, hands) in gripping, turning, manipulating objects of various sizes, shapes, weights
- Repetitious bending, kneeling, or stretching
- Repetitious pushing and pulling 20lbs at 30
