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Job Title: Maintenance Technician

Job Description

A cardboard box manufacturer is seeking a maintenance technician to perform electrical and mechanical repairs throughout the production facility. This role involves 70% mechanical repairs and 30% electrical repairs. The technician will troubleshoot and repair equipment, performing electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic repairs to minimize downtime on the production line. Preventative maintenance tasks will also be performed according to the PM schedule.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and repair equipment performing electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic repairs.

• Perform preventative maintenance according to the PM schedule.

• Troubleshoot and repair motor controls and PLCs, including Allen-Bradley and Siemens.

• Troubleshoot variable speed AC and DC drive controllers.

• Calibrate and troubleshoot sensors.

• Troubleshoot circuits such as E-stop circuits and run circuits, tracing circuits to identify issues.

• Understand and work with servo motion controls, incremental and absolute position encoders, and resolvers.

• Read and interpret electrical schematics.

• Perform hydraulic and pneumatic system maintenance.

• Repair or replace motors, chains, sprockets, gears, and belts on equipment.

• Fix equipment including conveyors, die cutters, large printing machines, a 300 ft. long corrugator, palletizers, wrappers, and material handling equipment.

Essential Skills

• 5+ years of maintenance experience.

• Ability to troubleshoot and trace down sensors and circuits.

• Proficiency in troubleshooting PLCs, electrical motors, and drives.

• Ability to read electrical schematics.

• Experience with maintenance on motors, chains, sprockets, belts, etc.

• Hydraulic and pneumatic maintenance experience.

• Possession of own tools.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience in packaging or high-speed manufacturing environments is a plus.

Why Work Here?

This role offers stability in a solid industry and very good, affordable internal benefits once you become a full-time employee.

Work Environment

The work environment is fast-paced and manufacturing-oriented. It is non-climate controlled and can be hot on the floor due to the machines in operation, but there are many fans in the building. The schedule involves working Monday to Saturday/Sunday, with one weekend off every three weeks. Shifts are currently from 7pm-5am, with the potential to move to 2pm-10pm or 10pm-6am shifts in the future. Training will take place on day shifts for 2-3 weeks.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Houston, Texas.

About Aerotek:

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.