Equipment Maintenance Technician - Sterling Engineering, Inc.
Vernon Hills, IL 60060
About the Job
Title: Equipment Maintenance Technician
Location: Vernon Hills, IL
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Target Salary Range: $65,000 - 72,000/year
Overview:
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Job Summary:
The Maintenance Technician is responsible for troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining production machinery within a manufacturing environment. Will also support equipment, building utilities, and other systems throughout the facility. The Maintenance Technician also assists with related upgrades, improvements, and assigned projects as required.
Job Duties:
- Receives and performs job assignments through work orders, sketches, PM schedules, blueprints, or verbal instructions. Follows applicable codes and regulations on work performed.
- Responds to emergency requests for repairs/replacements.
- Troubleshoots, repairs and maintains a variety of production machinery and equipment including electrical, mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic systems and parts.
- Installs, modifies and relocates machinery and equipment and performs fabrication, welding, mechanical, electrical, electronics, plumbing, carpentry, or other maintenance skills.
- Repairs and modifies buildings and plant systems as required.
- Reads and interprets manuals, schematics, blueprints, drawings, and other written installation and repair instructions.
- Performs routine inspections and preventative maintenance of assigned plant equipment, machinery and systems including gauges, filters, fluid levels, system readings, cooling tower, gas burners, air compressors, chillers, etc.
- Requisitions and secures materials, tools, and supplies needed for assignments.
- Uses a variety of measuring and testing equipment to troubleshoot, maintain, and repair machinery, equipment and systems.
- Uses a wide range of shop, hand, and power tools common to the various trades applied.
- Maintains specified records, logs and system readings.
- Troubleshooting and repair of components such as rolls, shafts, bearings, drive belts, drive chains and gear boxes utilizing basic mechanic’s hand and power tools
- Troubleshooting and repair of pumps, valves and piping systems to include pipe threading
- Troubleshooting and repair of hydraulic cylinders and controls
- Troubleshooting and repair of pneumatic cylinders and controls
- Perform a routine setup and operate a drill press, lathe, mill and grinding machine
- Perform basic layout, steel fabrication and welding of carbon steel
- Possess a knowledge of electrical schematic and mechanical blueprint reading
- Understanding of basic water treatment principles
- Document work completed on work orders
- Follow all prescribed environmental, safety and health rules
- Complies with sanitation guidelines and good manufacturing practices related to neatness, product cleanliness and personal hygiene.
- Other tasks as assigned.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of a High School Diploma (or equivalent experience) is required.
- 5 years of hands-on equipment maintenane experience.
- Knowledge of general maintenance techniques, processes, and procedures for the repair, installation, and modification of a variety of manufacturing equipment and control systems.
- Skills and experience must includes: Allen Bradley PLCs (i.e., ControlLogix, SLC-500, & PLC5), Variable Frequency Drives (VFD), Servo control motors, Machines with power distribution of 480 VAC, and repair of pumps, valves, hydraulic/pneumatic cylinders, and controls.
- Ability to read and interpret blueprints, maintenance manuals, schematics, and technical drawings.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Source : Sterling Engineering, Inc.