Maintenance Technician

$31,200 - $41,600/Yr

Summit Plastic Molding Ii - El Paso, TX

Full-time

El Paso, TX

Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing

About the position

The Maintenance Technician is responsible for maintaining machinery and ensuring minimal corrective maintenance and unscheduled downtime. This role involves conducting inspections, performing preventative maintenance, and collaborating with production to optimize operational efficiency and quality.

Responsibilities

• Conduct regularly scheduled inspections of facility equipment to prevent major maintenance occurrences.
• Walk through the plant to ensure best practices and industry standards are being followed in lubrication, alignment, safety guards, etc. for all machinery.
• Work closely with production to assure that production's operations run at maximum efficiency and quality, with a minimum of downtime.
• Perform preventative maintenance of equipment.
• Understand basic hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical principles and theory of operation; read and understand prints pertaining to them.
• Use checklist to ensure all items are inspected during scheduled inspections.
• Maintain up-to-date records.
• Monitor and maintain daily, weekly, monthly preventative maintenance as required on production equipment, as well as building maintenance.
• Perform and record repairs made to equipment.
• Maintain all production, support, and auxiliary equipment.
• Understand/interpret electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and mechanical drawings and specifications.
• Troubleshoot PLC (Programmable Logic Controls) and work with live and low/high voltage electrical systems.
• Make checks on all machines, robots, and auxiliary equipment in production for safe and efficient operation.
• Work with controls, drives, and servos on mechanical equipment.
• Report or fix any potential problems that may arise.
• Organize and keep inventory of spare equipment and notify Plant Manager when replacements are necessary.
• Keep shop and work areas clean.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent (Preferred).
• 2 years of experience with hydraulic injection molding machines (Required).
• 2 years of experience in industrial machine maintenance (Required).
• Ability to relocate to El Paso, TX 79928 before starting work (Required).

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off