Maintenance Technician

COMPANY OVERVIEW

This client is fully integrated building products manufacturer and one of the leading gypsum board producers in the world. Placed endtoend the company’s annual gypsum board production would travel around the earth over 14 times. They offer a full line of interior finishing products including joint compounds tape and textures. Its growing cement board product line has a strong customer base in the United States and several other countries.

The company headquartered in Charlotte NC has over 40 locations including laboratories mines and quarries paper mills gypsum board interior finishing products cement board plants and sales regions.

We have an immediate need for a Maintenance Technician at our Savannah GA manufacturing facility.

In this position you will be responsible for performing troubleshooting and repair techniques on manufacturing equipment electrical/electronic and mechanical systems. You will also analyze troubleshoot build maintain repair and/or design complex mechanical electrical hydraulic and pneumatic equipment.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES (not all inclusive):

• Responsible for keeping Safety First for you and your coworkers.
• Must have determination to not just fix the breakdown glitch or malfunction but maintain focus to determine the root cause.
• Determine corrective action necessary to minimize downtime increase productivity and maintain continuity of operations.
• Operate within our preventative and predictive maintenance program.
• Work with production operators on changeovers and equipment change processes.
• Report and inventory parts used on the off shifts to ensure proper parts inventory.
• Selfreliant with ability to troubleshoot and repair equipment electrically and mechanically.
• Perform monthly test on all safety systems.
• Must provide complete mechanics tool set including impact sockets wrench sets up to 11/4” large pry bars hammers screw drivers levels squares and tapes.


QUALIFICATIONS:

• Demonstrate a clear focus on safety as the main priority of the job.
• Minimum of five years’ experience working in heavy industrial maintenance environment.
• Excellent problem solving troubleshooting and demonstrated ability to determine root cause of equipment failure.
• Strong electrical and fabrication skills with an ability to engineer and design solutions for process changes and must be able to use electrician’s tools.
• Ability and experience in installation maintenance and adjustments to electrical equipment programmable controllers control devices motor drives and power distribution.
• Experience working on screw conveyors belt conveyors bucket elevators gearboxes bearings belts chains and couplings.
• Some working knowledge of PLC programming and troubleshooting is desirable.
• Positive attitude toward change and the ability to adapt and relate to the work environment and the associates.
• Perform preventative maintenance utilizing company PM program.
• Strong communication skills (both verbal and written).
• Operate cutting torch and welding equipment to fabricate parts.
• Ability to operate cut off saws sanders milling machine and lathe.
• Must be selfdirected and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs.

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