Job Function:  Preventative Maintenance Technician will provide maintenance and repair for a variety of company-owned equipment machinery. You'll document service, perform functionality and safety tests, and spend a great amount of time working with production employees to ensure equipment is performing properly.

Duties and responsibilities

• Make sure all work is done in a Safe and timely matter and correctly.
• Perform basic wear and tear checks on equipment.
• Ensures equipment is clean and lubricated well.
• Ensures that safety standards are maintained in the course of performing duties.
• Ensures the facility areas and work environment are free of hazardous objects and substances.
• Maintains accurate records of maintenance activities
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Maintain regular attendance.

Qualifications:

• Experience as a preventative maintenance technician preferred.
• Has a basic mechanical aptitude and working knowledge of using maintenance equipment.
• Must be able to lift, bend, kneel, squat or lie down while working.
• Ability to work both indoors and outdoors with possible exposure to extreme hot or cold temperatures.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50lbs.

Ability to:

• Perform a wide variety of skilled entry-level work in the maintenance and repair of equipment.
• Prioritize, schedule, and review work.
• Interpret, explain and apply codes, rules and regulations involved in assigned maintenance activities.
• Effectively and safely operate a variety of assigned tools and equipment.
• Understand and follow oral and written directions.
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing..
• Work independently with little direction or supervison
• Meet schedules and time lines.
• Maintain routine records.
• Establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others.
• Lift heavy objects.
• PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
• Work is performed while standing, sitting and/or walking or in confined spaces or heights, ladders
• Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing.
• Requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.
• Requires bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching.
• Requires the ability to lift, carry, push or pull medium weights, up to 75 pounds
• Requires activities involving being around moving machinery, exposure to marked changes in temperature and humidity, and exposure to dust, fumes and gases.

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or G.E.D.
• Preferred 1 year experience as a preventive maintenance technician.