Maintenance Technician

Maintenance Technician
Location: Kearny, NJ
Duration: Permanent
Pay Rate: 36.14 + 1.35 per hour night shift premium
100% on site, 12 hour shifts, 3 days one week/4 days the next week

Job Responsibilities

• Maintains production and quality by ensuring operation of machinery and mechanical equipment.
• Ensures operation of machinery and mechanical equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements on engines, motors, pneumatic tools, conveyor systems, and production machines; following diagrams, sketches, operations manuals, manufacturer's instructions, and engineering specifications; troubleshooting malfunctions.
• Locates sources of problems by observing mechanical devices in operation; listening for problems; using precision measuring and testing instruments.
• Removes defective parts by dismantling devices; using hoists, cranes, and hand and power tools; examining form and texture of parts.
• Determines changes in dimensional requirements of parts by inspecting used parts; using rules, calipers, micrometers, and other measuring instruments.
• Adjusts functional parts of devices and control instruments by using hand tools, levels, plumb bobs, and straightedges.
• Controls downtime by informing production workers of routine preventive maintenance techniques; monitoring compliance.
• Fabricates repair parts by using machine shop instrumentation and equipment.
• Maintains equipment, parts, and supplies inventories by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed equipment, parts, and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt.

• Technical degree preferred
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, schematics and P&ID drawings
• Ability to maintain precision measurements
• lockout/tagout