1st Shift Maintenance
Located in Lansing, MI
$20.00-$25.00/hour
Schedule: 7:00am-3:00pm
Expected hours: No less than 50 per week
Maintenance Summary:
Service and repair machines and equipment throughout the facility for production
efficiency.
Maintenance Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Install, maintain, repair, and modify production equipment, and instrumentation in accordance with relevant codes and from blueprints, schematics, and sketches.
- Study manufacturer manuals and directions when setting up machinery.
- Clean, lubricate, and perform routine maintenance and disposal of defective parts on machinery.
- Locate sources of issues by observing machinery in operation.
- Test equipment repairs and independently run all machines.
- Set up calibration, pull wire, and align equipment (OLI, canter, quad, TBL, gang, trimmer.)
- Troubleshoot production equipment (motors, gearboxes, drives, sprockets, chains, belts, etc.) using mechanical aptitude.
- Maintain inventory of equipment, parts, and supplies by checking stock and placing orders.
- Use CMMS to locate parts in store room when needed.
- Train production and maintenance employees on routine preventive maintenance by workstation.
- Determine changes in requirements of parts by inspecting and measuring using various instruments.
- Prepare maintenance reports by collecting data and summarizing information and trends.
- Review daily downtime and recommend/implement preventive maintenance routines.
- Demonstrate rigging and lifting practices.
- Observe all safety rules, policies, and precautions. Reports and corrects unsafe work conditions.
- Submit safety ideas to Safety Committee Members.
- Complete required safety and regulatory training.
- Communicate with electrical team and management of any equipment that is not operating properly.
- Safely operate shop tools (lathe, drill press, grinder) and equipment.
- Update scheduling systems, including adding notes to system and requesting work orders for maintenance repairs and activities and preventive maintenance.
- Provide ideas, innovation and suggestions for continuous improvement and opportunities.
- Follow established departmental housekeeping, safety practices and standard operation procedures.
Maintenance Basic Qualifications:
- 2-3 years previous lumber industry experience or industrial maintenance experience.
- Language skills to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Maintenance Basic knowledge of hydraulic, pneumatic, torching, arc welding and electrical principles.
- Ability to safely operate forklift, scissor lift, and manual lift.
- Communicate and train via verbal and written instructions.
- Mathematic skills with the ability to calculate figures and amounts using addition,
- Ability to calculate speed ratios for gear boxes, conveyors and correct shive for sprocket size application.
- Reasoning ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, verbal, or diagram form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Good eye/hand coordination and reflexes.
- General lumber knowledge such as board sizing and quality terminology/requirements.
Maintenance Certifications, Education and Experience:
- Mechanical knowledge: 2 years (Preferred)
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Must be able to work in an indoor/outdoor environment
- Climb and descend a flight of stairs several times per day
- Walk, stand, or kneel for up to 10 hours
- Bend and lift up to 50 lbs.
