Maintenance Technician 3rd Shift

Maintenance Technician

Thales has a vacancy for a Maintenance Technician for the North Kingstown site. You will be responsible for providing technical support for all personalization and insertion machinery/equipment with regards to Health & Safety, Quality, and Productivity. The intervention could be a corrective or preventive action to the equipment. As part of the duties of this position, you will be engaged in supporting the cost reduction plan in place, spare parts inventory, and maintenance KPI improvements.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Maintain personalization and insertion equipment to provide safe, reliable, and efficient production, while adhering to all OSHA regulations and policies. Fault find and repair to provide optimum up-time of Perso equipment. Provide instruction and guidance to production operators on machine operation and basic maintenance.
• Liaise with equipment suppliers to undertake machinery diagnostics/upgrades and modifications. Assist in the control/management of spare parts while ensuring the database is up to date. Escalate all issues of downtime to the Maintenance Manager or Production Team Leader and enter maintenance and downtime details into the corresponding maintenance ticket.
• Ensure continual high standards of housekeeping. Provide Technical Support to other Thales Perso facilities that share the same Perso technology. Contribute to specific projects related to the maintenance area like spare parts cost reduction, spare parts inventory, and maintenance KPI improvements (MTBF, availability, and machine downtime).

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience at least 1 year as mechanical or electric Technician.
• Proven technical grounding in mechanical and electrical disciplines.
• Computer literate and possess good communication, organizational, and time management skills.
• Preferred knowledge of Datacard/Bell & Howell/Pitney Bowes/Matica/Persomaster machinery, as well as fault finding at board level and a good understanding of computer hardware/architecture.
• Willingness to learn and support new equipment, as well as has the ability to travel occasionally to support other Thales Perso sites.

Special Position Requirements

Schedule: 3rd Shift 11pm to 7am, starting on Sunday night until Friday morning (occasional overtime on Friday night into Saturday)

Physical Environment: Shopfloor/Office. Must possess: strength, stamina, and mobility to perform medium to heavy physical work, to work around machines, to climb and descend ladders, to operate a variety of tools and equipment; vision to read printed materials and a computer screen and to distinguish colors in wiring; hearing and speech to communicate in person and over the telephone or radio. Frequent walking in operational areas to identify problems or hazards. As part of the physical work must be able to bend, stoop, kneel, reach, and inspect work sites as well need to have the ability to lift, carry, push, and pull materials and objects weighing up to 50 pounds or heavier weights with assistance and/or the use of proper equipment.

Travel: Occasionally

What We Offer

Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 30 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including the following:

Elective Health, Dental, Vision, FSA/HSA, Voluntary Life and AD&D, Whole Group Life w/LTC, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Plan, Identity Theft, and Pet Insurance.

Retirement Savings Plan after 30 days of employment with a company contribution and a match, and with no vesting period.

Company paid holidays and Paid Time Off.

Company provided Life Insurance.