Maintenance Tech

Maintenance Tech

Consider joining the Pennex family as a Maintenance Tech at our Wellsville, PA location. The Maintenance Tech repairs and maintains the equipment of all production and facilities equipment. This role must have excellent diagnostic ability and repair skills in a variety of fields, such as mechanical, welding hydraulics, pneumatics combustion and electrical.

This is a night shift position from 7pm to 7am with a rotating weekend schedule.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responds to service calls from all departments involving breakdowns to diagnose and repair equipment as required. Responsible for prioritizing repairs with input and direction from leadership.
• Diagnoses malfunctioning apparatus and discusses it with other maintenance technicians including Maintenance Supervisor. Diagnoses and repairs or replaces faulty hydraulic or pneumatic components; mechanical components, including but not limited to bearings, couplings, etc; combustion components; and electronic components such as power supplies, processor, printed circuit boards, etc.
• Performs scheduled preventive maintenance (P.M.) on plant equipment including extrusion presses and auxiliary equipment, melting furnace, casting unit, billet saw, homogenizing furnace, etc.
• Conducts daily inspection of the operation of the air compressors and compressed air system including maintenance of oil levels, air filters, dryer operation, etc.
• Conducts daily inspection of the operation of the caster cooling water system including maintenance of the water level, water quality, water filtration, etc.
• Performs daily inspection of the operation of the extrusion presses including maintenance of the oil levels, oil leaks, billet heater operation, cutoff saw operation, transfer operation, stretcher operation, etc.
• Installs and/or modifies equipment in cooperation with leadership to improve the reliability, simplify the operation, improve operational safety, etc.
• Completes all paperwork on a timely basis, including daily work sheets assigning work to appropriate jobs or equipment in quarter hour increments.
• Follows company rules, regulations and policies regarding work and safety practices.
• Maintains a neat and orderly work area including general housekeeping of the work area upon completion of repair. Assists with general housekeeping of the Maintenance area and plant.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education:

• Associate's degree or equivalent from two-year college or technical school preferred.

Experience:

• Five or more years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience should include welding competency, hydraulic and pneumatic circuit components, knowledge of relay logic components, PLC logic components, bearings, gear reducers, equipment alignment and piping installation.

Other Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to use measuring devices, rulers, micrometers, etc.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to read maintenance blueprints, hydraulic schematics, ladder diagrams and bill of materials.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Must be able to pass pre-employment physical and drug screen.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States, visa sponsorships are not available.
• Regular attendance required.

Environmental Hazards:

• The employee is regularly required to stand.
• The employee is frequently required to walk; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit and use hands.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.

Work Environment:

• The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; fumes or airborne particles and extreme heat.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.