Maintenance Technician

Job description

Description SUMMARY: Repairs and maintains machinery and mechanical equipment, in accordance with diagrams, sketches, operation manuals, and manufacturer’s specifications. Duties include installation, maintenance and repair of production or processing equipment. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Observes operating machines, mechanical devices, or equipment to diagnose machine malfunction and determine need for adjustment or repair. - Dismantles devices to gain access to and remove defective parts, may use hoists, cranes, hand tools and power tools; replaces defective part with new part or repair from various kinds of metal stock, using hand tools, such as scraper, file, and drill, and machine tools, such as lathe, milling machine, shaper, borer, and grinder. - Tests malfunctioning machinery, using test equipment, and discusses malfunction with other maintenance workers to diagnose malfunction. - Troubleshoot, upgrade, and repair machine control circuitry/controls. - Conducts tests and inspections of equipment, to evaluate quality or performance. - Adjusts functional parts of devices and control instruments, using hand tools, electrical multi-meter, gages, levels, plumb bobs,...