Plant Technician (Maintenance)

Job Title

Plant Technician 

Qualifications

• Maintenance: 5 years (Required)
• High school or equivalent (Preferred)
• Programmable Logic Controllers: 3 years (Preferred)

Job Summary

The role of the Plant Technician is responsible performing highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain production and facility equipment according to safety, predictive and productive maintenance systems, and processes to support the production goals and corporate values of Triplex Plating. Must adhere to established safety and efficiency standards.

Basic qualifications

• Must be 18 years old
• Possess a high school diploma or equivalent
  
• Must be authorized to work in the US
• Three (3) to five (5) years’ experience in Maintenance Manufacturing
• Experience working with programmable logic controllers
• Available to work any shift, weekends, holidays, and overtime as required
• Willing to adhere to all safety rules and regulations, including all PPE requirements

Essential job functions are:

• Schedules and proactively conduct preventative maintenance activities while recognizing opportunities for equipment improvements as well as provide feedback to prevent future failures before they occur.
• Perform operator duties to diagnose problematic situations
• Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service
• Repairs and maintains, in accordance with diagrams, sketches, operation manuals, and manufacturer's specifications, machinery and mechanical equipment, such as engines, motors, pneumatic tools, and production machines and equipment, using hand tools, power tools, and precision
• Provides emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment
• Install new equipment in a timely manner
• Completes enhancement projects or change outs for production safety, capability, or capacity
• Coordinates and completes special projects as directed by Plant Manager and/or leadership
• Meet standards for completion of all assignments including cleaning up work area and putting all tools and equipment away
• Participate in cross training opportunities to maximize operation effectiveness
• Utilize personal protective equipment and continuously adheres to safety guidelines
• Detects faulty operation and/or defective materials and reports to proper management
• Address any problems to ensure quality control per instructions and guidelines; reports defective materials and equipment
• Measures and tests instruments
• Observes mechanical devices in operation and listens to their sounds to locate causes of trouble.
• Dismantles devices to gain access to and remove defective parts, using hoists, cranes, hand tools, and power tools.
• Repairs or replaces defective parts-Installs special functional and structural parts in devices-Starts devices to test their performance for appropriate amount of time prior to determining job is complete.
• Performs mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic troubleshooting and repair.
• Effectively ensures compliance with plant rules of conduct.
• Effectively ensure compliance with the concepts or recognizing and serving internal and external customers. Understand the flow of material through your areas of responsibility. Monitor and effectively manage equipment that limits/restricts the flow of product through production.
• Be able to quickly and effectively troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic failures to restore equipment to production ready state.

Competencies

• Mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic aptitude
• Oral and written communication skills
• Cleanliness
• Multi-tasking
• Attention to detail

Supervisory Responsibility

Not applicable

Work Environment

Consistent exposure to extreme temperatures (hot and cold), dust, odors, fumes in door and outdoor. Noise level is moderate to loud.

Physical Demands

• May be required to stand for long periods of time
• May involve some repetitive motions
• Must be able to lift up to 45 pounds
• May also engage in frequent bending, stooping, squatting, pushing and pulling of production equipment
• Due to the open environment of the warehouse, must be able to work in various weather and temperature conditions to include extreme heat, humidity and cold
• Occasionally required sit.

Position Type

• Full Time

Travel

• 0-5%; As needed for projects or trade shows

Required Education and Experience

• 5 years’ experience in similar role
• Ability to read, interpret and understand diagrams and blueprints

Additional Qualifications

• Good communication skills
• Team interaction
• Multi-tasking
• Understand and follow basic verbal and written instructions
• Possess basic mathematical skills: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Perform basic visual quality inspections on machinery
• Utilize power tools and various equipment as needed to perform duties
• Must be certified or become certified in operation of forklifts

AAP/EEO Statement

Triplex Plating provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Triplex Plating complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Triplex Plating expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Triplex Plating employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Disclaimers

• Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time
• This description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions, it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned
• This job description is subject to change at any time