Maintenance Mechanic Technician

Maintenance Mechanic Technician

• Port Wentworth, GA, USA
• Full-time permanent position
• Competitive hourly pay, overtime, benefits, 401K matching plan, and vacation

You’re a Maintenance Mechanic Technician looking to join a collaborative team. You’re excited by the prospect of tapping into your skills and experience, to work for a reputable, well-established company, that offers growth opportunities.

If you’re up for a new and exciting opportunity, look no further.

We’re Raise , and we’ve joined forces with our client, a food manufacturing company. They produce trusted, top-quality products for retail grocers, other food manufacturers, food service distributors, and consumer product lines, and have been doing so for over 100 years.

What you’ll be doing

As the new Maintenance Mechanic Technician you’ll be responsible for repairing and maintaining mechanical and hydraulic components of production machines and equipment such as metal fabricating machine tools, material handling systems, centrifugals, pumps, motors and lubrication.

Responsibilities & Functions

• Knows, observes, and enforces all Standard Operating Procedures, safety procedures and rules, environmental practices and GMP guidelines
• Visually inspects and listens to machines and equipment to locate causes of malfunctions
• Dismantles machines and equipment to gain access to the problem area
• Inspects and measures parts to detect wear, misalignment, and / or other problems
• Removes and replaces worn or defective parts of drive mechanism or hydraulic system
• Realigns and adjusts components such as spindles and clutches
• Locates damaged air and hydraulic pipes and measures, cuts, threads, and installs new pipe
• Starts machines and equipment to test operation following repair
• Repairs broken parts
• Sets up and operates metalworking tools such as lathe, drill press, or grinder, to make or repair parts
• Performs centrifugal maintenance to include but not limited to dismantling, inspection, repair and replace functional parts
• Cleans up area at the completion of maintenance and repair

The Details

This is a full-time permanent position based out of Port Wentworth, Georgia facility. In addition to a competitive hourly rate in the range of $28.

00 / hr – $41.00 / hr (commensurate with experience), you’ll also enjoy a benefits package, a 401K matching plan, and eligibility for overtime and vacation.

You will be required to work either 8 or 12-hour shifts, rotating weekends and be available for rotating on-call responsibilities during specified times.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED
• Associate Degree or equivalent from a two-year technical school
• A minimum of 3 years of mechanical and hydraulic components experience required, working in an industrial setting (ideally 5+ years of experience.)
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Experience using computers, MS Windows. Experience with Maximo software is considered an asset
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; Walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel;

reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee must regularly lift and / or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Please note : While performing the duties of this Job, the associate is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.

The associate is occasionally exposed to wet and / or humid conditions, extreme heat and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Your Application

We value diversity and inclusion and encourage all qualified people to apply; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Looking for meaningful work? We can help

Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’

re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.

We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible / nonvisible disabilities.

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