General Maintenance Technician

Job Summary

Amentum, an on-site contractor for Progress Rail, a Caterpillar Company is seeking Multi Skilled Technicians professional for our Industrial Maintenance team in Winston Salem, NC!

• https://www.amentummaintenancejobs.com/

This position requires an understanding of mechanical and electrical maintenance concepts, a great attitude, and the willingness to learn technical skills in an industrial / manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities:

• Performs a variety of preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, and trouble calls.
• Assists higher level technicians in responding to work orders and providing service and feedback to the customer on all work orders, hot and cold calls, troubleshooting, and preventive maintenance.
• Conducts preventative maintenance on facility and production equipment, fixtures and systems.
• Assists the team with maintaining, operating and troubleshooting systems and equipment such as pumps, bearings, blowers, fans, gearboxes, air handlers and other equipment as required.
  
• Conducts preventive maintenance inspections and performs required preventative maintenance actions such as lubrication, cleaning, filter changes, etc.
  
• Performs preventive maintenance as scheduled in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
  
• Recommends measures to improve maintenance methods and equipment performance.
  
• Understands company policies and enforces safety regulations.
  
• Safely performs functions of the position including following proper safety guidelines such as job hazard analysis and lockout/tagout procedures and wearing PPE as required.
  
• Operates a variety of equipment such as hand tools, laptop computers and diagnostic hardware to perform work.
  
• General Maintenance of equipment.
• Demonstrates flexibility in the day-to-day activities and scheduling for the benefit of the customer.
  
• Other duties may be assigned.

• High School diploma or demonstrated equivalent.
• Two years of experience performing mechanical maintenance in an industrial, large commercial, or warehouse environment, or demonstrated equivalent combination education and experience.
• Must have the ability to work in an aerial lift or scissor lift at heights up to 30 feet or higher.
• Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.
• This position may require a valid Driver’s License.
• This position does not include sponsorship for United States work authorization.
• This position will require the ability to obtain a security access badge at our client’s location.
• This position may require overtime, various shifts, weekends, holidays and alternative work schedules.
• Qualified applicants must provide their own tools.

Physical Requirements:

• Some tasks will require repetitive wrist movement.
• Some tasks will require the ability to walk extensively throughout facilities during a workday.
• Requires the ability to climb extension ladders, roof ladder, stepladders, and stairs as needed during a workday.
• Requires the flexibility to bend/stoop, squat, kneel, reach/stretch, and move in a 90-degree fashion during workday.
• Requires the ability to differentiate colors pertaining to wire color-coding.
• Requires ability to read and understand information contained in a variety of documents or displayed on a computer screen.
• Requires ability to use a variety of office equipment and to operate a computer keyboard to access data bases, to send/receive messages and to prepare documents.
• Requires ability to attend meetings throughout the site and potentially travel to other AMENTUM, customer and/or vendor locations in the area, as well as some air travel to more distant locations.
• Requires the ability to communicate with others on the telephone and in one-on-one or group discussions, meetings and presentations.
• Demonstrated fluency in computer use including the full Microsoft product line.
• Requires some moving of light to medium weight materials into desks, filing cabinets and other storage locations.

Special Requirements:

• Wear steel toe safety shoes, safety glasses, gloves, hard hats and other Personal Protective Equipment as needed.
• Cope with demands (stressors) that are associated with the job and/or the work environment so that acceptable levels of performance and overall contribution are maintained.

• Knowledge of facility mechanical systems such as heating and ventilation, plumbing, conveyors, and R.O. systems.
• Knowledge of machinery and equipment such as pumps, motors, gearboxes, supply and exhaust fans, power transmission components, cranes, hoists
• Experience in the operations and maintenance in an industrial, large commercial, or logistics distribution environment.
• High attention to detail.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Friendly, cooperative, customer service-minded attitude; team player.
• Ability to work with little or no direction at times.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Commitment to maintaining a safe work environment, including applying proper safety practices and following procedures while performing maintenance tasks.