Job Description
About the Role
The role maintains and repairs plastics manufacturing equipment used in extrusion, thermoforming and injection moulding processes. It works with a highly motivated team skilled in industrial maintenance and supports 24/7 production facilities through maintenance teams aligned to each of the four shifts. The team operates in a fast-paced environment, delivering solutions to equipment issues and maximising uptime, with collaboration and communication central to how it works.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and repair plastics manufacturing equipment used in extrusion, thermoforming and injection moulding processes.
- Perform preventative maintenance on production equipment.
- Determine through regular inspections the repair and maintenance work necessary to prevent failure of production equipment and improve reliability.
- Make repairs or modifications to production equipment using controls, drawings, electrical, general mechanics, hand tools, hydraulics, machine shop, piping systems, PLC knowledge, pneumatics, RF, troubleshooting, welding and programming.
- Deploy projects to decrease downtime and quickly respond to equipment issues to return assets to production.
- Work alongside a shift-aligned maintenance team supporting one of the production shifts.
- Collaborate and communicate within the team to deliver solutions to issues and maximise uptime in a fast-paced environment.
- Contact vendors as needed, research problems, identify potential components and order maintenance machine parts.
- Track and turn in repairable flagged parts.
- Elevate part issues to supervisor or management quickly with potential solutions if known.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- High School diploma or GED.
- Post high school Technical/Vocational school degree or education or related Military training in industrial maintenance technology and industrial electrical systems.
- Three years of industrial/manufacturing maintenance experience.
- Demonstrated strong problem-solving ability necessary to identify defects and repair industrial equipment.
- Familiarity and training with electrical, mechanical and fluid system safety, diagnostics and repair.
- Electrical safety, troubleshooting and repair experience.
- Experience with PLC control systems.
- Experience with AC electrical systems and components up to 3-phase 480-volt.
- Experience with DC electrical systems and components.
- Experience replacing components including drives, motors, pumps, heaters, switches and HMI panels.
- Experience working with basic hand tools, machine shop equipment, precision measuring instruments, digital multi-meters, cutting and welding equipment.
- Ability to read and understand documentation and drawings for mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical systems.
- Personal computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office and background using computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).
- Ability to work 12-hour shifts, including possible evenings, weekends and holidays.
- Able to lift objects up to 50lbs.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in plastics manufacturing.
- Experience working with plastic processing equipment and processes including extrusion, thermoforming, injection moulding and support equipment such as driers, loaders and transfer systems.
- Experience with Siemens and Allen Bradley PLC control systems.
- Experience and/or certification working with common Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and variable frequency drives.
- Experience and/or certification working with industrial automation and robotics (Denso and ABB preferred).
- Familiarity with reliability-based maintenance programmes and principles.
- Experience using SAP for CMMS.
- Ability to be certified to operate forklifts, man lifts and scissor lifts.
Workplace
- D2 shift: Friday, Saturday, Sunday and every other Monday, 5:30 am–5:30 pm.
- Work takes place in a 24/7 production facility.
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Job Tags
Work at office, Shift work, Afternoon shift