Maintenance Technician

Maintenance Technician

The Maintenance Technician at Harmon Scrap Metal is a skilled, hands-on professional responsible for the preventative, routine, and emergency maintenance of a wide range of equipment critical to daily operations. This includes semi-trucks, cranes, shredders, conveyors, and other heavy industrial machinery used in the processing and transportation of scrap metal. They play a key role in minimizing downtime, ensuring equipment reliability, and maintaining a safe work environment.

At Harmon Scrap Metal, we're a family-owned and values-driven company built on safety, integrity, and teamwork. We take pride in providing reliable service, maintaining well-kept equipment, and supporting our drivers with the respect and consistency they deserve.

Performance Objectives

• Performs routine and preventive maintenance including oil changes and tune ups, per manufacturer guidelines
• Mount, dismount, and repair semi tires
• Repairs or replaces malfunctioning parts and systems such as brakes, lights, belts, water pumps, tires, and other mechanical parts
• Oils and lubricates moving parts on equipment to ensure effective performance
• Cleans, organizes, inventories, stocks, and otherwise maintains shop areas, parts, tools, and supplies
• Maintain documentation of repairs in CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)
• Attend and participate in internal meetings and complete required training
• Performs other related duties as assigned by management

Benefits

• Competitive hourly wages
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Paid holidays and PTO
• Paid-for training, certifications, and professional development
• Growth and advancement opportunities
• Consistent schedule with overtime opportunities
• Family-owned, safety focused culture

Disclaimer: The sorting and processing of scrap metals involves using permanent magnets and electromagnets, creating magnetic fields, which can interfere with electronic medical devices like cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators.

Work environment involves frequent and/or regular exposure to natural and unusual elements, such as extreme temperatures, toxic chemicals, biohazardous materials, dirt, dust, fumes, smoke, and/or loud noises

Key Competencies

• Excellent mechanical repair skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience successfully maintaining a positive attitude while working in a team environment with competing priorities
• Ability to think critically
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• High familiarization with equipment via operator's manual trainings
• Possess a high regard for safety in the workplace.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, procedure manuals, and written correspondence

Education & Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent
• At least two years of automotive and maintenance experience
• Driver's license & clean driving record

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to stand and walk for extended periods on uneven surfaces
• Ability to lift, push, or pull a minimum of 50 pounds
• Frequently climb up and down ladders; crouch and bend at the knee; stoop or bend at the waist; reach arms overhead; and twist and turn at the neck and trunk
• Continually handle and grasp levers and dials; continuous leg and foot motion when using pedals
• Good hearing to detect equipment noises or alarms.
• Good vision (color vision) for reading gauges, schematics, and identifying materials or warning signs.
• Ability to work long shifts in physically demanding conditions, often outdoors in all weather (heat, cold, rain).