Job description:
As part of the Maintenance Team, you will be working to deliver solutions to improve our process reliability, product quality, and plant-wide performance.
Some of the duties include:
- Provide on-site mechanical support, guidance, and assistance during plant activities, including start-ups, process and technology transfers, and major process changes.
- Need to have good mechanical aptitude and ability to do mathematical calculations, statistical knowledge, and understand the principles of physics. Must be able to understand and troubleshoot ladder logic.
- Demonstrated experience in diagnosing and repairing electromechanical equipment
- Able to write and perform Work Orders as necessary to achieve stated objectives.
- Able to troubleshoot equipment.
- Collaborate with plant employees to carry out work orders.
- Perform data collection and statistical analysis
- Complete reports summarizing results and conclusions.
- Maintain technical competence in advancing technology via frequent training courses, on-the-job training, vendor schools, seminars, industry associations, and publications.
- Perform mechanical or technical training as needed in areas within the plant that are identified as developmental opportunities.
- Consulting diagrams and technical documentation such as schematics, manuals, standards, and codes;
- Self-motivated and highly organized with good time management skills
- Detail oriented work style
- Dedication and commitment to meeting expectations
- Team Player/Cooperative, yet assertive
- Must be willing to be on call to support production needs.
- Ability to work in an often fast-paced, hectic, and demanding environment
- Must have exceptional problem-solving skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Control of experience is a plus:
- Maintaining backup and revision documentation for control systems and instrumentation;
- Manage SCADA-type devices in an industrial-based environment
- Installing, configuring, calibrating, and maintaining control, measurement,t and indicating instrumentation (pneumatic, analog & digital);
- Configuring and programming Programmable Logic Controls (PLC) and Programmable Automation Controllers (Client);
- Organize and order PLC control components to maintain plant process control systems.
- Work with corporate IT staff as required with miscellaneous network and computer activities.
- Prepare technical reports for documenting issues/changes to equipment.
- Manage projects for implementing changes and improvements.
- Installing and terminating electrical, pneumatic, and fluid connections;
- Inspecting and testing the operation of instruments and systems to diagnose faults;
- Removing, repairing, adjusting,g and replacing components;
- Calibrating components and systems;
- Assisting engineering in plant design, modification, and hazard analysis;
- Maintaining various computer-based control systems;
- Performing scheduled maintenance programs; and,
- Keeping up-to-date with advances in technology in industry and the trade
- Some of the instruments include transmitters, analyzers, sensors, detectors, signal conditioners, recorders, controllers, and final control elements.
- They are used in industry to measure and control variables such as pressure, flow, temperature, level, motion, for,e and chemical composition.
- Work in alignment with and support the Bandag Mission, Core Values, Quality Statements, and Plant Mission Statement.
- Ability to plan and prioritize tasks across multiple projects
- Proven experience in PLC logic and programming with Allen Bradley PLCs and other types of controllers preferred
- Ability to create and read logic and flow diagrams for program design, programming, simulation and testing, and start-up