Secure a responsible career opportunity to fully utilize my training and skills but still expand my learnings, knowledge, and skills, while making a significant contribution to the success of the company.
• Receives assignments from supervisor for needed repair or preventive maintenance tasks, responds to requests from operators, or receives work orders via Maintenance Management System
• Removes/installs machines using hoists, lifts, and hand and power tools, coordinates with manufacturers’ representatives as applicable.
• Troubleshoots malfunctions; reads data from HMI screens and reports and various logs, listens to operator’s observations, and/or observes mechanical devices in operation to diagnose causes of problems.
• Informs production supervisors or workers of required downtime; locks or tags out machines impacted to ensure safety.
• Performs repairs and maintenance, including:
• Aligning equipment such as pumps, motors, controls, and gear drives
• Removing worn or defective parts.
• Reworking bearings; changing seals. Changing mill and caster rolls; roll grinding, resurfacing, and cleaning.
• Changing out oil cooling filters; draining oil and operating pumps to replenish oil.
• Cleaning casting filters: adding grain refining material as needed. Breakdown and cleaning air filters.
• Maintaining hydraulic and pneumatic systems; routine maintenance on compressors, gas, oil, water, and sewage lift pumps.
• Routine maintenance on overhead cranes. o Washing floors, repairing doors and locks; maintaining cooling tower, moving furniture.
• Maintaining Cardox fire suppression system valves, pumps, and heads.
• Performs routine maintenance on gas, diesel and electric industrial forklifts, trucks and other vehicles.
• Adjusts functional parts of devices and control instruments by using hand tools, following schematic diagrams, sketches, operations manuals, manufacturer's instructions, and engineering specifications.
• As assigned, maintains logs/records of maintenance history and life remaining on critical equipment/parts with defined usable life spans.
• Documents problems identified, and work performed; creates “as built” drawings; provides to Maintenance Planning staff for input into preventive maintenance system.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Walks floor to identify safety hazards; acts to mitigate hazards; creates related work orders if needed.
• Maintains continuity within and across shifts/work teams by documenting and communicating actions, problems, and continuing needs.
• Works with Engineering and other staff on a project basis to identify plant process improvements and new methods to improve efficiency.
• Suggests modifications to procedures to improve efficiency or safety.