What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Mechanic - American Heat Treating position at Precision Resource?
Company Background
American Heat Treating, Inc. (AHT) located in Monroe, CT, was founded in 1981 to serve the saw blade and tooling businesses. It has become one of the finest and most versatile heat-treating facilities in the Northeast. Today, the company serves a variety of industries.
To learn more, visit www.americanheattreating.com.
AHT offers:
- Excellent benefits package including health, dental, vision and life insurance
- 401(k) with match and profit sharing
- 11 Paid Holidays, Generous Paid Time Off
- Wellness and Employee Assistance Programs
Summary: We are looking for an energetic, self-motivated, and reliable individual to perform needed preventative maintenance and repairs on equipment and facility.
Essential Duties and Requirements:
- Fabricate simple to moderate complexity replacement parts using machine shop equipment.
- Perform repairs to production fixtures using welding, plasma cutting and any other fabricating skills required.
- Perform all work requiring pipefitting.
- Perform all mechanical repairs, including preventative maintenance tasks.
- Perform all work involving furnace brick and insulating blanket repair.
- Maintain necessary records of repairs; enter completed work orders in computer.
- Diagnose and repair simple electrical problems involving motors and electric furnace heaters.
- Repair and/or replacement of furnace thermocouples.
- Maintain daily checks of vacuum furnace fluids and general operating parameters.
- Perform minor repairs to vacuum furnace components including hot zone and manifold train.
- Replace and maintain vacuum furnace pumps.
- Maintain facility wide lighting equipment, including light bulb and fixture replacement.
- When required assist Maintenance Manager.
- Conduct and Document preventive maintenance programs tasks.
- Maintain spare parts inventory at required levels.
- Maintain preventative maintenance supplies at required levels.
- Assist production personnel with equipment set-up and when necessary, start-up.
- Conduct daily visual inspection of all plant equipment.
- Maintain brine recovery system performing all necessary repairs as needed.
- Maintain brine evaporator liquid level, inspecting and maintaining filtration system.
- When required pump out recovered salt into solidification trays and store.
- Maintain control on brine transfer from wash tanks,
- Monitor level of waste by-products of salt recovery notify supervisor when disposal is required.
- Operate and maintain quench oil recovery unit by; controlling oil/water mixture storage; performing preventative maintenance and required repairs; maintaining consumables inventory; maintain portable oil filtration units.
- Maintain control over non recoverable oil waste tank.
Qualifications and Education:
- Minimum High School diploma or GED with or 2-Year Technical Degree or Equivalent Experience. Min 5 year in Manufacturing Industrial Maintenance is required.
Qualifications
- Knowledge of shop mathematics.
- Knowledge of blueprint and electrical reading.
- PLC
- Forklift operation.
- Crane operation.
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work well with others.
- Must be able to analyze relevant Electrical Systems and use deductive reasoning to figure out what part of the system is causing it to malfunction.
- Knowledge of Microsoft 365 (Word, Teams, Excel, Power Point) and Email.
- ERP System knowledge.
AHT is an equal opportunity employer, M/F/D/V.
