3790 Production Maintenance Technician (Day Shift) na Mt. Olive Pickle Company, INC.

Description

Summary

Able to set up, operate, troubleshoot, maintain, repair, and rebuild all qualified pieces of equipment in the Finished Goods Department. Under the supervision of the supervisor, Plant Manager, and General Manager, coordinates work and resolves production and equipment problems. NOTE: There are four levels of skill and machinery competence involved in this job. Production Maintenance Technicians start at job grade 104 and can progress up with increasing knowledge and skill.

Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Utilizes knowledge of complex mechanical and electrical principles required to set-up, troubleshoot, repair, replace, disassemble or overhaul a variety of complex mechanical equipment in finished goods department.
• Troubleshoots, makes repairs, or replaces machinery and equipment based on work request or verbal instructions. Installs, overhauls and rebuilds machinery and equipment based on need and approval. Completes minor electrical, calibration, setup, and programming modifications. Basic knowledge of motors, drives, sensors, and PLC’s with ability to troubleshoot and repair.
• Diagnoses cause of equipment failure and makes repairs to equipment in department.
• Uses Computerized Management System (CMMS) to enter, receive, review, update and close work orders. Assigns time to work orders and activities. Completes assigned Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Tasks.
• Visually and physically monitors production on all lines.
• Assures that daily and weekly operational and pre-operational checks are completed on all equipment. Writes work requests for any repairs and has supervisor approve.  
• Monitors to assure that all product adheres to food safety and quality critical limits. The lead machine operator/mechanic’s absence will be covered by another employee trained to monitor food safety and quality.
• Monitors production run throughout the shift. Reports problems to Supervisor.
• Communicates with and assists maintenance, engineering, and production personnel with equipment repairs and preventive maintenance as needed.
• Notifies production planner of needed downtime for repairs, parts that need to be ordered and scheduling of all repairs in department.
• Keeps work area clean and orderly.
• Follows safety rules and company policies.
• Uses mathematics together with complicated equipment diagrams, specifications, charts, tables, and various types of precision measuring instruments.
• Mentor department Lead OMs, OMs, machine operators and machine attendants if needed
• Must be able to work independently, to plan sequence of and make decisions concerning mechanical procedures and fully perform any of the tasks listed above. Must be able to learn and apply new technology in equipment mechanics and instruct Technicians of lesser skill or experience.
• Understands and is proficient in the use of all machinery, tools, and equipment listed in “Machinery, Tools & Equipment Used” Section.

Other Duties

• Uses personal computer in some job tasks, primarily in machine troubleshooting.
• Operates forklift and own or company vehicle in performance of some job tasks.
• Participates in training, employee meetings, committees, project teams, etc. as appropriate. Some training may require travel.
• Receives written and verbal instructions on the above tasks and performs other work as directed by supervisor.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None

Machines, Equipment, Tools Used

Hand tools, air and electrical tools including grinders, drills, sanders, impact wrench, etc., metal lathe, metal bandsaw, milling machine, punch and ironworker, arc welder, plasma torch, oxyacetylene torch, stick welder, plastic welder, metal bender, aerial lift, forklift, truck, square, dividers, ruler. PC, multimeter as needed.

Physical Demands

Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.

Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow slippery or erratically moving surfaces. 'This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.

Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerate degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.

Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.

Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.

Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady forces in order to thrust forward, downward, or outward.

Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.

Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a high position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.

Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.

Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound.

Medium Work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

The employee is required to have visual acuity to perform an activity such as: operates machines such as lathes, drill presses, power saws and mills where the seeing job is at or within arm’s reach; performs mechanical or skilled trades tasks of a non-repetitive nature such as carpenters, technicians, service people, plumbers, painters, mechanics, etc.

Work Environment

Works inside and outside, subject to wide seasonal temperature variations and intermittent wetting from rain and some job tasks. Fumes from syrup room, hot pepper, forklifts, lime and sour water. Some contact with dust, grade, chain lube and yellow food coloring. Distracting noise in some grease. Protective equipment such as hardhat, ear protection, safety glasses, welding helmet, safety belts, and gloves required based on work site and job task. Steel toed footwear required.

Requirements

High school plus trades training required. CRC (Bronze level or higher) a plus. Certificates of Completion in Maintenance Curriculum, or equivalent experience a plus. Experience in an automated production plant a plus. Strong working knowledge of automation, instrumentation and mechanical principles needed. Strong time management, communication, organization and computer skills needed. Ability to read, write and speak English required.