Industrial Maintenance Technician

Industrial Maintenance Technician

Position Title: Maintenance Technician
Reports to: Plant Manager
Shift: First (5:00am - 3:30pm) (some flexibility)
Location: DuraShield, Urbana, OH

Position Summary

To ensure the plant & equipment perform to the required standard to facilitate production targets, cost, quality & delivery. This position works within multiple areas and requires a high degree of self‑direction. Close working relations with technical & production departments will be essential to ensure production is supported at all times.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Inspect the repairs, replacements, installations, and adjustments of the Press Machines.
• Ensure the maintenance of all mechanical equipment in the steel foundry environment.
• Welds to repair broken parts, fabricate new parts and assemble components.
• Read and interpret blueprints, schematics and detailed repair drawings related to manufacturing equipment and machinery.
• Inspect equipment when required for repair or transportation.
• Ensure safe environment to avoid contamination or workplace safety hazards.
• Inspect to confirm correct calibrations of machinery and equipment parts as required for efficient and safe operation.
• Use hoists, jacks, hand tools, squares, rules, micrometers, and plumb bobs.
• Test unit to evaluate its mechanical operation.
• Confer with operator and observe, test and evaluate operation of machinery and equipment to diagnose malfunction.
• Disassemble machinery to remove parts and make repairs.
• Examine parts for defects such as breakage or excessive wear.
• Repairs, replace, adjust and align components of machine. Involves getting on knees, climbing into and on press, working from ladder up to 13 feet.
• Frequently lifts up to 50 pounds and frequently pushes and pulls 20-30 pounds of force in moving machinery parts.
• Awkward positioning to climb in and on machinery.
• Constant use of tools weighing up to 20 pounds.
• Test runs repaired machinery.
• Fabricate replacement parts.
• Repair or replace electrical wiring.
• Weekly lubrication and inspections on machinery.
• Clean equipment, order parts and record keeping.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills

• High School Diploma preferred.
• Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, benefits, repair, and maintenance.
• Knowledge of design techniques, principles, tools and instruments involved in the production and use of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• Knowledge of powered tools.
• Ability to fabricate and weld.
• Ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
• Ability to quickly and repeatedly make precise adjustments in moving the controls of a machine or vehicle to exact positions.
• Ability to see details of objects at a close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Ability to quickly make coordinated movements of one hand, a hand together with its arm, or two hands to grasp, manipulate or assemble objects.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
• Ability to understand and organize a problem and then to select a mathematical method or formula to solve the problem.
• Ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Ability to coordinate movements of two or more limbs together.
• Ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with the body, arms, and/or legs.
• Other duties may be required.

EEO Statement

DuraShield is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.