Maintenance Technician

Essential Responsibilities

- Perform highly diversified duties to maintain plant equipment

- Provide emergency/ unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production and performs scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service

- Perform mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, 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

- Perform regular preventative maintenance on machines, equipment, and plant facilities

- Use a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters and material handling equipment in performing duties

- Participate in the maintenance On-Call system

- Detect faulty operations, defective material and report those and any unusual situation to proper supervision

- Comply with MSHA regulations and maintain clean and orderly work areas

- May drive a pick-up truck or maintenance vehicle in the plant and/or to pick-up parts from local vendors

- Other duties as assigned

Education and Experience

· High School Diploma or equivalent required

- Two-year technical degree in industrial or electrical trade or five years’ experience in industrial or processing maintenance

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

- Welding certification, preferred

- Must have strong electrical and controls troubleshooting, welding experience, hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, and industrial skills

Physical Requirements

· Ability to climb stairs, climb ladders, reach, stoop, squat, tolerate prolonged standing/walking, balance, bend, twist, crawl, kneel, push and pull objects

· Ability to operate hand controls with both hands

· Ability to operate mobile equipment, foot pedals with both feet

· Ability to perform sustained overhead reaching

· Ability to tolerate working outdoors in all environmental temperatures and weather

· Ability to work in areas with the potential for high noise levels

· Ability to work in cramped quarters

· Lift objects of various dimensions and weights

· Lift up to 50 pounds, carry up to 150 feet

· Ability to tolerate working at heights up to 150 feet

· Vision: normal depth perception, vision and ability to distinguish color

Working Conditions

· All duties require outside assignments and require periods of work in all weather conditions-heat, cold, wet or dry and dusty

· Must be able to work in areas where noise levels are up to 85 dbs

· Safety-sensitivity position

Signal Peak Silica, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $25.00 - $30.00 per hour

Benefits:

- 401(k)

- 401(k) matching

- Dental insurance

- Flexible spending account

- Health insurance

- Life insurance

- Paid time off

- Vision insurance

Work Location: In person