Maintenance Technician
The Job offer
Fibertex Nonwovens is expanding its activities in North America by adding another production line at our plant in Gray Court, SC to our existing lines in SC and IL.
The Maintenance Technician position is responsible for performing highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair and maintain production and facility equipment whether it be electrical or mechanical according to safety, predictive and preventative maintenance systems and processes to support the achievement of the business goals and objectives.
In addition, the successful candidate must provide leadership to establish and promote a positive work environment that drives excellence in productivity, people, customer service and quality.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Perform highly diversified duties to install and maintain production machines and the plant facility's equipment. Measured by unplanned and planned stop times or downtime.
- Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production and performs scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service.
- Become owner / responsible for specific parts of machines as well as work as a team member when performing repairs, preventative and predictive maintenance activities for entire plant.
- Perform maintenance skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, electrical controls, pneumatic, hydraulic, welding, plumbing troubleshooting and repair of production machines.
- Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
- Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test and make adjustments.
- Use a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters and material handling equipment in performing duties.
- Detect faulty operations, defective material and report those and any unusual situations to proper supervision.
- Ensures all safety, quality, regulatory, and customer requirements and expectations are met.
- Comply with safety regulations and maintain clean and orderly work areas.
Qualifications/Competencies
- High School Diploma or GED Equivalent required
- Minimum of 3 years of maintenance in a manufacturing setting or equivalent experience
- Commercial Electrical background preferred.
- Must have strong experience installing, troubleshooting and maintaining electrical/eletronic control circuits.
- Must be able to read circuit diagrams/wiring schematics
- Siemens PLC/VFD experience (S7 and TIA Portal preferred) Allen Bradley VFD experience is also preferred
- Must be Team player who takes personal initiative.
- Must be able to identify potential technical issues and resolve them with minimal to no supervision while maintaining a positive attitude.
- Ability to lift at least 35 pounds.
- Must be available to work as requested on-call 24/7.
- Basic experience with MS Office.
- Basic understanding of the metric system preferred.
- Must be able to work overtime, or call, or on weekend as requested.
- Forklift and aerial platform lift experience / past operator license obtained.
- Must be able to stand on concrete floors for long periods of time.
- Must be organized and data driven.
Due to high volume please do not call the office. We will contact you if we want to schedule an interview.