Maintenance Technician - $31.50+/HR

Location: Brighton, MI.

We are looking for maintenance technicians who are looking to grow within a great organization in a long-term, full-time job.

Shifts Available:

• 1st Shift Standard: $17/hour - Monday – Friday 7am-3pm

• 3rd Shift Standard: $17.60/hour - Sunday – Thursday 11pm-7am

Pay rates: starting at $31.50 – based on experience

Objective of the Position: Support the production process by helping to keep the equipment and tools performing at the level they were originally designed to perform. Must have a significant capacity for troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

Essential Accountabilities: The position incumbent ensures, that

• Assess the skill level of maintenance team members/ programmers and recommend and/or provides training
• Attends production planning meeting prepared to discuss maintenance needs.
• Establish and maintain positive shift to shift communication among the maintenance/programmers.
• Maintains open communication with operations regarding plans for equipment maintenance timing.
• Oversees personnel in charge of maintaining, repairing, programming and rebuilding various production machines and equipment.
• Prepare facilities for installation of new equipment and layout changes, including working with outside contractors.
• Provide primary input to establish new, and upgrade existing preventive maintenance tasks.
• Manage timecards, schedule and time off daily for all subordinates in e-time.
• Recommend equipment/tool upgrade opportunities.
• Recommends solutions to chronic reliability problems and executes planned solutions.
• Reports equipment related problems to operations and recommend/execute solutions.
• Responsible for adherence to lock out/tag out policies.
• Responsible for adherence to preventive maintenance plans.
• Responsible for identifying spare parts needs and organization of spare parts inventory.
• Responsible for organization of the equipment manuals.
• Responsible for reducing or eliminating unplanned equipment downtime.
• Strive to fully utilize the SAP PM module for all maintenance reporting.
• Support full use of the SAP PM module.
• Verify work of maintenance/programmers is full completed. Identify and execute follow up needs.

• Other duties as assigned.

Requirement Profile:

Professional Background / Basic Qualification / Work Experience:

• Bachelor's degree (B. A.) infield or closely related field.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in supervising maintenance personnel.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working for a manufacturing supplier preferably automotive.
• Vocational and/or Technical degree/certificate or Journeyman card. Minimum 4 years’ experience in field.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should be proficient in Microsoft Office.

Technical Expertise:

• Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, statements and projections.
• Ability to apply mathematical concepts and operations, including calculations, percentages, etc.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos, and write simple correspondence.
• Analytical- Synthesize complex or diverse information; Collects and researches data; Uses intuition and experience to complement data; Designs work flows and procedures.
• Business Acumen- Understands business implications of decisions.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement of products for manufacturability.
• Knowledge of engineering fundaments, mechanical systems, automotive systems, and exhaust systems.
• Knowledge of federal and state regulations.