General Maintenance - Novelis Newport Manufacturing Facility

Our Novelis Uhrichsville, OH facility is seeking to add an experienced General Maintenance Technician to its team.  Offering a competitive starting wage of $23.74 per hour, with a wage increase to $27.50 after the probationary period. The General Maintenance Technician will be responsible for maintaining industrial equipment and ensuring all preventative maintenance schedules are being followed. This role is critical to ensure our machines are running and performing properly.

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Our Skilled Based Incentive pay model can increase your earnings even further. A monthly bonus can be earned based on personal and plant performance metrics. We offer paid vacation and holidays. Employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance. We also offer a very competitive 401K plan that includes a company match and an additional Employer contribution after one year of employment!

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a safe working environment by complying with Novelis HSE standards and policies, all state and federal regulations, and company policies and procedures.

• Ensures operation of machinery and mechanical equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements on engines, motors, pneumatic tools, conveyor systems, and production machines; following diagrams, sketches, operations manuals, manufacturer's instructions, and engineering specifications; troubleshooting malfunctions.
• Locates sources of problems by observing mechanical devices in operation; listening for problems; using precision measuring and testing instruments.
• Removes defective parts by dismantling devices; using hoists, cranes, and hand and power tools; examining form and texture of parts.
• Determines changes in dimensional requirements of parts by inspecting used parts, using rulers, calipers, micrometers, and other measuring instruments.
• Adjusts functional parts of devices and control instruments by using hand tools, levels, plumb bobs, and straightedges.
• Controls downtime by informing production workers of routine preventive maintenance techniques; monitoring compliance.
• Fabricates repair parts by using machine shop instrumentation and equipment.
• Maintains equipment, parts, and supplies inventories by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed equipment, parts, and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt.
• Provides mechanical maintenance information by answering questions and requests.
• Prepares mechanical maintenance reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Maintains continuity among work teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Qualifications:

• Minimum education of either a High School Diploma or GED.
• 1 – 3 years maintenance experience in Industrial Manufacturing or comparable on machinery and equipment
• Successful candidates must pass a mechanical MTC skills test
• Ability to read, write and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Opened in 1985 the Uhrichsville facility produces flat rolled aluminum sheet. The rolling mill cold rolls aluminum sheet to a desired gauge anneals to temper levels and slits the rolled sheet to size. Employing more than 350 people the facility produces aluminum sheet for building and construction automotive distribution transportation and consumer durable applications.Novelis recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage. Novelis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. All terms and conditions of employment at Novelis including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoffs recalls transfers leaves of absence compensation and training are without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial or local laws.