Maintenance Assistant - CNC & Preventive Maintenance

Maintenance Assistant

First Shift | 4-Day Workweek | MondayThursday, 6:00 AM4:30 PM

Are you the person who notices a machine making a weird noise before everyone else does? Do you like keeping equipment running smoothly instead of waiting for something to break?

We're looking for a Maintenance Assistant to join our plant support team with a heavy focus on preventative maintenance for CNC equipment.

This is a hands-on role where you'll help keep our manufacturing operation running safely, reliably, and efficiently. Your goal? Catch the little problems before they become big, expensive ones.

What You'll Be Doing

• Perform routine preventative maintenance on CNC machines and manufacturing equipment
• Change coolants, monitor oil levels, and perform other routine machine maintenance
• Complete scheduled filter changes on equipment such as mist collectors and machine air filters
• Monitor and repair leaks throughout our compressed-air system
• Complete daily, weekly, annual, and as-needed maintenance tasks
• Work with production and management to identify and prioritize maintenance needs
• Communicate maintenance schedules, delays, interruptions, and changes to manufacturing teams
• Maintain maintenance inventory and communicate supply needs to Purchasing
• Assist with facility maintenance, including filters, lighting, and general upkeep
• Coordinate with the property manager when larger facility repairs are needed
• Help maintain our recycling program and operate the cardboard baler
• Handle occasional larger custodial projects, such as operating a floor scrubber or cleaning large windows
• Help keep the exterior of the facility prepared for weather-related conditions

What We're Looking For

Required:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 35 years of CNC maintenance experience and/or;
• 35 years of facilities maintenance experience, or equivalent
• Strong mechanical aptitude and a hands-on approach to problem-solving
• Ability to work independently while communicating effectively with production and management
• A commitment to doing things safely and correctly not just quickly

What Makes This Role Different?

You won't spend your day waiting for something to break.

Preventative maintenance is the name of the game. You'll be inspecting, servicing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and keeping our CNC equipment and facility in good working order so production can keep moving.

If you know your way around manufacturing equipment, take pride in keeping things running, and would rather fix a problem today than explain why it became a bigger problem tomorrow, we'd like to meet you.

Schedule: MondayThursday, 6:00 AM4:30 PM Shift: First Shift / 4 10-hour schedule

Summary of Duties: Member of the plant support team who performs routine preventative maintenance on equipment and machinery, and assists with performing ongoing upkeep of the facility.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform routine preventative maintenance for the manufacturing facility
• Ensures timely completion of routine (daily, weekly, annual, etc.) and as-needed maintenance

Specific Duties Assigned

• Perform routine machine maintenance (e.g., change coolants regularly, monitor oil levels, etc.)
• Complete regular filter changes for machinery (e.g., mist collectors, machine air filters, etc.)
• Perform routine facility maintenance (e.g., changing light bulbs, replacing air handler return filters, etc.)
• Confer with property manager as needed for repairs (e.g. roof leaks, structural issues)
• Monitor for and repair leaks within the airlines for compressed air system
• Confer with management and/or production teams daily to determine repair/maintenance priorities
• Notify manufacturing teams of any changes, delays, or interruptions to repairs/maintenance
• Store and maintain maintenance-related inventory, advise purchasing department of needs
• Ensure the exterior of the building is treated for weather-related issues (e.g., ice melt if snowing)
• Maintain recycling program with vendors, ensuring regular pick-ups are completed, operate cardboard baler
• Complete major custodial tasks as needed (e.g., utilizing floor scrubber, large window cleaning)

General Responsibilities

• Promotion and execution of company mission, directives, and initiatives to successfully achieve organizational goals
• Perform all work within the scope of abilities while acting in line with all quality and safety policies and practices
• Oversees and assumes other duties and activities as able and assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Not applicable

Education & Experience:

• High School Diploma or equivalent is required
• Minimum of 3-5 years of CNC Maintenance required
• Minimum of 3-5 years of facilities maintenance experience or equivalent

Certificates, Licences, & Registrations:

• Not applicable

Qualifications, Knowledge, & Skills:

Must have:

• Ability to work independently; to make good, sound, and timely decisions; to exercise proper judgment and discretion
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with keen attention to detail, strong analytical and reasoning skills
• Ability to understand, track, organize and complete multiple tasks and projects
• Ability to effectively communicate and interact diplomatically with employees, customers, and associates
• Ability to handle and process information in a timely and confidential manner
• Ability to identify and secure new business, new revenue, and funding
• Ability to sustain high energy and enthusiasm with the appropriate level of urgency as needed
• Ability to read, interpret, and understand all manner of administration, management, financial, etc. documents/terms
• Ability to learn and accurately use all company computer enterprise resource planning and other software programs
• Ability to receive and understand training by various methods: i.e., oral, written, on-the-job, computer-based, etc.
• Ability to create and maintain documentation for reports, procedures, and databases
• Ability to work a schedule of extended and flexible hours; a willingness to travel
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle safely over long and short distances
• Ability to develop and deliver presentations to diverse groups in varied venues and communities
• Excellent writing and public speaking skills and the ability to communicate professionally, objectively, and effectively
• Sufficient ability to read, write, and speak in English and be understood; and follow instructions
• Sufficient visual acuity (corrected) to be able to read and view paperwork, printouts, ledgers, computer screens, etc.
• Sufficient manual dexterity to type and operate office equipment as related to fulfilling assigned duties
• Ability to create, uphold, and comply with the company Mission, Safety, and Quality policies to the letter of each

Physical Demands:

• Must have speaking ability; and sight/hearing senses or use prosthetics to enable and adequately perform the job
• Must be able to sit/stand continuously for extended periods
• Must be able to twist, turn, bend, and reach freely without pain or discomfort
• Must have sufficient dexterity in both hands and arms to perform routine typing and operate office equipment
• Physical activity: Sitting, walking, standing, typing, holding, grasping, etc. approximately 50% of time
• Bending, reaching outwards and above shoulders, and lifting twenty pounds unassisted approximately 50% of time

Work Environment:

• Job activities are generally performed in a lighted and ventilated office and/or factory environment.
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