Job Description
Maintenance Technician – Job Summary:
We’re supporting our client, a leading waxed paper converter based in South Chicago Heights, Illinois who are looking for a Maintenance Technician to join their growing team. The successful Maintenance Technician will have experience of working within a high-volume manufacturing environment.
Salary: $25-$30 per hour
Hours: 1st Shift
Benefits: Hour plus bonus, profit sharing, 401K, health insurance, vacation PTO.
Job Type: Direct Hire
Location: South Chicago Heights, Illinois
Job Start date: ASAP
Responsibilities:
- Troubleshooting, installing, aligning, dismantling, repairing, and maintaining industrial machinery, mechanical equipment, electrical equipment, and circuits
- Installing and aligning new equipment
- Performing periodic proactive equipment work, such as maintenance machine analysis, preventative maintenance, and other tasks to improve reliability and up-time
- Installing and repairing mechanical drives, chains, sprockets, gearboxes, belts, and couplings
- Maintain and troubleshoot pneumatic systems, control devices, hydraulic equipment, circuits and components
- Performing daily preventative maintenance
- Reading and interpreting mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic schematics
About You:
- High school diploma or GED
- At least three (5) years of electrical experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or military environment
- At least two (5) years of experience troubleshooting hydraulic and pneumatic systems
- At least three (5) years of experience with installation, calibration, fabrication, and preventive maintenance in a manufacturing, industrial, or military environment
- Experience reading electrical schematics and mechanical drawings
- Experience with single and 3-phase electrical repair and troubleshooting up to 480 Volts
- Experience with fabrication and welding
- Experience troubleshooting issues with motors, bearings, chains, sprockets, gearboxes and conveyors
- Experience with precision alignment of motors, couplings, bearings, and pumps and lubrication
- Experience working with preventative and predictive maintenance
- Previous exposure to plastic extrusion and/or thermoforming processing equipment
- Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, to include wearing safety equipment, e.g. safety glasses, hearing protection and other PPE as required by specific job
Job Application:
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