About this role
Priefert is seeking a qualified maintenance technicians for our Mount Pleasant, TX. Location.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Use of hand tools, such as hammers, saws, impacts, drills, wrenches and hoists.
• Maintenance of pneumatics, hydraulics and mechanical drive systems.
• Diagnose mechanical problems and determine how to correct them, checking blueprints, repair manuals, or parts catalogs, as necessary.
• Work with tool room and purchasing to identify and order parts
• Work with production and department supervision to schedule equipment down time for repairs.
• Inspect gearboxes, drive shafts, and belts, check fluid levels, replace filters, or perform other maintenance actions following prewritten checklists.
• Repair or replace defective equipment parts, using hand tools and power tools, and reassemble equipment.
• Performing preventive maintenance on industrial equipment.
• Fill out detailed daily logs and work orders.
• Apply 5's methods to tool carts, shop, parts storage areas and work area.
• Other duties as assigned.
REQUIREMENTS:
• Understanding of industrial machinery and how it works.
• Ability to determine safe and unsafe conditions and to adjust the situation to stay safe at all times.
• Ability to keep a clean and organized maintenance shop, tool cart and work area.
• Ability to use tool carts, aerial lifts, cranes and forklifts.
• Ability to work on more than one task at a time.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing conditions.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Ability to work and communicate effectively with others.
• Ability to perform repetitive work.
• Ability to work in a tight and confined space.
• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Maintains composure in stressful situations.
• Reports to work on time and as scheduled.