Senior Maintenance Technician - Sand Springs - Southwest Tube

Maintenance Technician

Reports To:

Shift Business Manager

• Servicing, maintaining, rebuilding, and repairing a wide variety of production or processing machines and equipment used in a steel tube heavy industrial manufacturing facility
• Additional responsibilities include building and facilities maintenance and repair
• Work performed includes electrical, programmable logic control, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and welding operations associated with installation and repair of all types of equipment, machinery, overhead cranes, heating and plumbing compressors, pumps, conveyors, motors and boilers
• Performs required and/or scheduled preventive maintenance checks and performs adjustments, cleaning, lubrication and replacement of parts on various equipment to ensure that the equipment is in superior operating and safe conditions
• Uses a variety of power and hand tools such as drills, saws, wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers and grease guns to perform repairs and maintenance of machinery and equipment
• Uses electrical arc welder, grinder and cutting torch
• Repairs may include working with voltage up to and including 600 volts DC and 480 volts AC
• Operates forklift whenever necessary
• Operates scissor lift when maintenance or repairs are needed to be performed rage height is twenty feet; maximum height is forty feet
• Required to work from verbal or written instructions
• Required to read blueprints in order to troubleshoot and repair equipment
• Requires first responder status for emergencies and is trained in CPR and first aid
• Often required to crawl into, under, or on top of equipment and machinery, including heat‑treat furnaces while following OSHA confined space regulations
• Required to dismantle, move, install, or repair machinery or mechanical equipment, to repair, rebuild or replace broken parts usually of the heavy type
• Often required to work on overhead cranes – repairs may be performed on top of the crane structure at heights of 40 feet while being tied off or strapped securely to the overhead crane
• Often required to climb ladders to make repairs, rebuild or install equipment or machinery
• Works on major projects such as complete equipment and machinery rebuilds, design alterations or modification of existing equipment or machinery
• Communicates with production operators to obtain information on nature of equipment failure in order to troubleshoot problems and examine machinery or mechanical equipment to identify reason for malfunction
• Utilizes electrical meters and hand tools to perform maintenance repairs, rebuilds, and troubleshooting on production machinery’s inline ink‑jet equipment
• Performs repairs on banding equipment. Such equipment is used to wrap and secure metal banding around bundles of tubing. Equipment includes tensioners, crimpers, and hand‑held tools averaging 10‑15 lbs each. Maintenance technicians may be required to dismantle these tools, troubleshoot the repair needed, or perform preventive maintenance on tools such as changing wheels or o‑rings. All tools are required to be tested and approved by the quality control tensile technician before release to production usage
• Lays out, assembles, installs, tests, repairs and adjusts electrical fixtures, apparatus, equipment, machinery, and wiring (motors, welding equipment, lighting fixtures, circuit breakers, transformers, programmable logic controls, etc.)
• Installs, repairs, and calibrates electrical and electronic recording devices and regulating control instruments
• Measures, cuts, threads and installs electrical conduit. Pulls wiring through conduit. Splices wires. Connects wiring to fixtures and power equipment. Installs grounding leads. Monitors performance of installed electrical equipment for hazards, adjustments or replacement
• Repairs, installs, replaces and tests electrical circuits, equipment and appliances within facility using hand tools and testing instruments
• Inspects and tests electrical lighting, signal, communication and power circuits
• Isolates defects in wiring, switches, motors, and other electrical equipment using testing instruments such as ammeter, ohmmeter, voltmeter, or testing lamp
• Replaces faulty switches, sockets…