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Maintenance Engineering Technician

PTS Advance
Columbus, OH Full Time
POSTED ON 2/18/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/16/2025

Our client is an Environmental Consultancy specializing in delivering exclusive technology to treat and destroy environmental contaminants. They are commercializing remediation plants intended to remove PFAs from water sources located at various refinery, industrial food and beverage, and commercial sites.

We have fantastic opportunities for Maintenance Engineering Technicians (mechanical / electrical) based onsite in Columbus, OH.

Maintenance Engineering Technicians report to the Field Site Manager. This individual performs hands on work across 4 primary functional areas of our chemical processing equipment :

  • Equipment Maintenance
  • Equipment Build and Prototyping
  • System Operation (engineering runs)
  • Maintenance SOP Authoring and Editing

In each of these areas the Maintenance Engineering Technician will work under the direction of an engineer or technical manager. They will be expected to perform their work based on verbal instructions, engineering drawings (schematics, models, BOM), and their own assessment of production needs. Engineering technicians are a key piece in the assessment and deployment of continuous improvement ideas.

The Maintenance Engineering Technicians may be asked to assist with laboratory work including performing experiments, analytical testing, and data management.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Works closely to identify, evaluate and eliminate safety hazards in collaboration with other staff members.
  • Receive improvement ideas and determine if and how to implement across the following areas :
  • Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting and Design
  • performs first line maintenance, troubleshooting of equipment failures, identifies and validates work arounds or design changes, performs and documents solutions under the direction of the Production Engineer Manager or step-up.

  • Scheduling
  • creates and ensures adherence to scheduled maintenance plan for areas of responsibility.

  • Documentation
  • updates or creates maintenance SOPs for engineering approval and operational adoption.

  • Builds and validates incremental system design changes (prototypes) under the direction of production engineering. Provides practical feedback to engineering to improve design usability or effectivity.
  • Perform engineering runs of prototype system(s).
  • Implements equipment upgrades across production systems.
  • Additional Responsibilities

    In addition to the primary responsibilities Maintenance Engineering Technicians may be asked to support laboratory investigations, data management (typically analytical data from laboratory experiments), and operations process creation / improvement.

    Qualifications

  • Must be a high school graduate with 5 or more years of experience in a technical role with hands-on mechanical or electrical assembly and troubleshooting OR an associate degree (or higher) in a technical field of study and hands-on assembly and troubleshooting experience (hobby or professional level).
  • Must have the ability to investigate and analyze mechanical and chemical processes and equipment.
  • Must be able to communicate clearly in both verbal and written formats the challenges and opportunities that arise in a manufacturing / production environment.
  • Must be able to calmly and deliberately work through the operation, evaluation, and upgrade of new and existing equipment.
  • Must be capable of becoming forklift trained (competency) and certified (compliance).
  • Must be able to regularly lift and relocate objects and equipment weighing 25 lbs.
  • Must be familiar and competent with hand and power tools such as, but not exclusive to, wrenches, screwdrivers, drills, grinders, and saws.
  • Must be able to effectively collaborate and communicate with other technicians, management, and other engineering team members.
  • Should be competent with MS Office tools.
  • Job Type

  • Full-time, hourly non-exempt.
  • Monday through Friday with infrequent weekends and occasional off-site work.
  • Day shift standard (occasionally evening shifts to cover heavy maintenance).
  • Primary work location : Columbus, OH.
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