HireLevel is seeking a Maintenance Technician in St. Louis, Missouri! The Maintenance Technician will install, troubleshoot, repair and maintain production and facility equipment. The right candidate will have 4+ years industrial maintenance including breakdowns and repairs, and production line changeovers. If this describes you and you are ready to work with an amazing team, then you should apply!

A premier manufacturer of many well-known and trusted household products, our client has been in operation since 1946 and manufactures close to one hundred household products. Exceeding customer expectations, striving for excellence in the products manufactured, developing new product innovations, providing a rewarding work environment, and giving back to our communities is the heart of their business. 

Benefits:

• Pay: $63,270.00

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Learn each production line and its operation and be able to run each station.
• Examine, test, maintain and repair all plant machinery and equipment to assure safe and efficient operations. May include the design and fabrication of parts.
• Perform a variety of duties for preventive maintenance on the production equipment. This may require reading and interpreting equipment manuals.
• Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, and make adjustments as needed.
• Disassemble, repair, and reassemble equipment, using various tools.
• Set up and change over the tooling on machines.
• Record and log maintenance repairs and inspections at machine. Communicate all actions, irregularities, repairs, and inspections.
• Fully understand and comply with the LOTO procedures.
• Standing and/or walking 67-100% of the time, Lifting and pushing/pulling up to 100 lbs., Climbing or Crawling 1-33% of the time, Bending, Squatting/Kneeling, Twisting/Turning, Reaching above the Shoulders, Reaching Outward and Handling small items.
• Seeing and hearing skills to ensure safety around machinery, forklifts, and hi-lifts.

Job Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED required. Two-year technical degree preferred.
• 4 years of Industrial Mechanical experience including breakdowns and repairs and production line changeovers. PLC experience and robotics is a plus.
• Experience troubleshooting motor control centers and mechanical packaging equipment including presses, filling lines, conveying systems, pneumatic and hydraulics, programming VFD up to 480V, installing photo-eyes, ultrasonic sensors, and safety light curtain; also teaching how to install each of these.
• Familiar with continuous ink jet date coders; setting up a message and changing parameters a plus, HMIs, including their functions and abilities.
• Must be able to follow written/oral directives from the Plant Manager and Supervisors, follow instructions and company safety rules and be a critical thinker, work effectively in a team environment with people of varying skills and backgrounds, read an electrical and wiring schematic and have general electrical knowledge wire a circuit that includes safety e-stops; continuous, momentary and timing relays; control heaters; encoders; and other electronic components, identify, troubleshoot and locate I/Os on a PLC (Allen Bradley, Automation Direct, Siemens).
• This position is in a manufacturing environment, processing chemicals into packaging. The environment can be dusty and is often loud.
• This position requires working around moving vehicles and operational machinery.

We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, or any other protected classification protected by local, state, or federal laws.