Maintenance Technician

Job Details

Job Location: Morristown Plant - Morristown, TN 37814

Position Type: Full Time

Petoskey Plastics strives to lead in sustainability, using advanced recycling technology to manufacture high quality films, bags, and resins from post-consumer materials. The company is committed to eco friendly innovation and values career growth, paid training, and a family-oriented culture.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision benefits – valued at $4 per hour over base pay
• Paid time off accrual starts two weeks after start date
• $500 bonus for maintaining full-time status during the first 90 days with good attendance
• Employer contributes 3% of annual earnings into 401(k) regardless of employee contribution
• Profit sharing
• Birthday pay
• Call-in bonus
• Safety shoe and safety glasses reimbursement
• Tuition reimbursement
• Wellness reimbursement (up to $400 annually)
• Life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability coverage

Responsibilities

• Maintain manufacturing equipment, performing preventive and reactive maintenance
• Perform equipment repairs based on management priorities and PLC work
• Document all activities in the work order module and close work orders when completed
• Provide operator equipment training when needed
• Ensure drawings, programs, and manuals are accurate, available, and complete
• Communicate safety and operation updates to all associates
• Identify improvement areas and plan improvement projects with management and the safety committee
• Calculate force, change gear/drive ratios, and perform ampacity calculations for wire sizing
• Read ladder logic symbols, basic power and control logic flow, and troubleshoot PLC loops
• Use schematics to troubleshoot, repair, modify, and upgrade circuits
• Adjust PID loops and understand effects of proportional, integral, derivative parameters
• Interpret physical IO signals and interpret digital, analog, and temperature (thermocouple) inputs
• Connect to PLCs, download and upload programs, and make program modifications
• Understand drive/motor operation, mechanical starters, three-phase motor operation, and overload protection
• Set up new analog or digital DC drives and AC VFDs for basic operation
• Interpret hydraulic and pneumatic schematics and troubleshoot leaks or component failures
• Demonstrate superior workmanship and set quality standards for associates
• Perform additional duties as assigned by management

Qualifications

• Education: Two-year technical degree
• Experience: Minimum five years in industrial equipment maintenance in manufacturing
• Knowledge, skills, and abilities:
  • Experience with Epicor or similar maintenance software databases
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • PLC programming and troubleshooting
  • AC and DC drive troubleshooting to board level
  • Proficiency in mechanical, electrical, blueprint reading, hydraulic, pneumatics, arc welding, gas welding, and cutting
  • Self-directed with good time-management skills
  • Forklift certification

Essential Functions

• Regular and reliable attendance
• Reading, writing, and visual acuity requirements
• Ascend/descend stairways and platforms with heights up to 50+ feet
• Stand for up to 12 hours
• Walk, bend, twist, reach, push, pull, and lift/carry up to 30 pounds (higher weights require two-person lift)
• Maintain concentration and attention to detail