Job Details
Position Title: Maintenance Technician 12 Hour Shifts
Wage: $22.00 - $30.00/hour
Shift: Days or Nights (2-2-3 Rotation)
Hours: 7:00am - 7:00pm or 7:00pm - 7:00am
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QPS Employment Group has a great opportunity available for a Maintenance Technician at a company in Newton, IA. This is a direct hire position for 12-hour day or night shifts. Apply today!
Maintenance Technician Responsibilities:
- Observe mechanical devices, equipment and machinery in operation and listens to their sounds to diagnose machine malfunction and determine need for adjustment, repair or replacement
- Study blueprints, sketches, machine parts or specifications
- Dismantle machinery or equipment to gain access to and remove defective parts
- Examine form and texture of parts to detect imperfections
- Inspect used parts to determine changes in dimensional requirements
- Adjust functional parts or devices and control instruments
- Repair or replace defective parts
- Install special functional and structural parts in devices
- Assemble and test operate machinery and equipment to verify correction of malfunction
- Coordinate with manager and assists with production operator s timely preventative maintenance and predictive parts replacement and repair
- Set up and operate drill press, grinder, and other metalworking tools to make and repair parts
- Repair electrical equipment or replace faulty wiring, switches, or relays, as qualified to perform
- Coordinate for outside services when needed
- Initiate purchase orders for parts, repairs or replacement equipment or pieces
- Monitor paper recycling operations
- Ensure compliance with all applicable OSHA and EPA federal and state rules, regulations, policies and guidelines and company safety rules in the plant
Requirements for Maintenance Technician:
- One-year certificate from college or technical school and three to five years of related experience and/or training or any equivalent combination of education and experience
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole number, common fractions and decimals
- Demonstrated skills in leadership, organization and communication
- Ability to anticipate problems and implement appropriate preventative measures
- Ability to develop new techniques for work processes
- Ability to give technical direction to others and project leadership over multiple safety teams
- Ability to redirect to issues as they emerge and reprioritize based on current business conditions
- Ability to lift up to 50lbs
Benefits include:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life and AD&D Policies
- Short and Long-Term Disability
- 401K with Company Match
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Volunteer Time Off
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