Maintenance Mechanic

Job Title

Performs mechanical, electronic, hydraulic, and electrical repairs, installation and maintenance on plant equipment, utilities, and facilities.

Essential duties include:

• Performs preventive maintenance on plant equipment.
• Measures, cuts, threads, and installs piping, fitting and valves.
• Dismantles and reassembles machines and fits replacement parts such as bearings and spindles.
• Installs switches and controls.
• Diagnosis and troubleshoots electrical and instrumentation problems.
• Operates lathe and Bridgeport mill.
• Moves and installs production equipment, prepares foundations, levels, and aligns machines.
• Performs concrete and masonry work, rough carpentry and plumbing.
• Performs mechanical and minor electrical repairs on machinery and equipment.
• Keeps production records.

Other duties include:

• Repairs HVAC equipment.
• Lays out and installs wiring circuits and electrical distribution centers.
• Maintains cleanliness of work area and follows safe work practice rules.
• Performs other miscellaneous duties as required.

Contacts:

Internal: Moderate (16-30%)

Contacts are non-controversial in nature and handled in accordance with standard practice and procedure.

External: Occasional (6-15%)

Contacts are routine and require obtaining or giving information or service.

Position requirements:

Education: One year commercial, vocational, or other specialized training beyond high school.

Experience: One year related work experience.

Physical demands:

Manual Dexterity: Work requires skilled, accurate, rapid, and some closely coordinated manual or other physical actions.

Physical Effort: Work requires a considerable variety of fairly steady active physical exertion.

Working Conditions: More frequent exposure to disagreeable features.

Hazards: Injury may require a doctor's care. Time lost for part of a day may be to receive medical treatment.