Are you an experienced maintenance professional looking for a place to grow long term? Look no further! Our client, one of the nation's largest brewing and distributing companies, is now hiring Maintenance Technicians in Richmond, VA! Apply now to learn more!

Location: Richmond, VA, 23231

Job Title: Maintenance Technician

Compensation: $26.50 - $31.00/hour

Summary

The Maintenance Technician is responsible for providing maintenance services and repair functions to facilities and equipment to ensure safety and that production schedules are met.

Responsibilities

• Complies with safety regulations. Assesses job hazards independently. Writes and executes LOTO and other safety permits.
• Diagnoses, troubleshoots, and repairs brewery packaging equipment related problems such as mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic failures. Use a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters, and other tools to complete repairs. Provides emergency unscheduled repairs of equipment as needed.
• Reads and interprets equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service. Uses a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters, and other tools to complete repairs.
• Executes Preventative Maintenance (PM) independently including cleaning, lubrication, oil changes, adjustments, repairs, rebuilds, and inspecting and replacing parts.
• Identifies necessary replacement parts and independently locates those parts in inventory. Assists in maintaining spare parts inventory through proper checkout of parts. Sources parts that are not in stock.
• Assists in partial or complete equipment overhauls. Rebuilds parts as needed using manuals and SOPs.
• Keeps records of maintenance repairs through CMMS utilization. Proposes improvements to PM schedule when equipment fails.
• Daily rounds to monitor and maintain reliable operations of plant utilities including boilers, chillers, and compressors.
• Assists in training other maintenance technicians, leads, and operators on proper operation of bottling, canning and kegging machinery as needed.
• Maintains a clean and orderly work area.
• Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an inpidual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable inpiduals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• High School diploma or equivalent and at least 4 years of experience as a maintenance mechanic preferably on packaging lines in the food or beverage industry.
• Strong working knowledge of mechanics and repair.
• Proven understanding of mechanical power transmission such as gearboxes, pulleys, conveying systems, heat exchangers such as plate frame and tube type, and piping systems.
• Demonstrated ability to repair and maintain pumps, motors, boilers, packaging equipment, and refrigeration systems
• Experience with plumbing and pipe fitting
• A basic understanding of electronics and instrumentation.
• Some prior experience with Control systems (Basic Electrical, Ladder Logic/Programmable Logic Controls) preferred.
• Experience working under a Lock Out/Tag Out program. Must be able to utilize lock out/tag out for machinery.
• Ability to read and interpret plans, drawings, prints and schematics, operating manuals, and repair manuals.
• Highly motivated and able to work independently with minimal training.
• High attention to detail, accuracy, and precision.
• Strong troubleshooting/problem solving/logic/process of elimination skills.

Why work for Qualified Staffing?

• We offer a fantastic benefits package to all of our employees. This includes healthcare, vacation/holiday pay and 401K! In fact, these are the same benefits that we offer our corporate employees!
• Applying for one job with Qualified Staffing is like applying for hundreds of jobs all at once!

We respond to every job applicant within 24-48 hours.

The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, citizenship status, various ability status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression of an otherwise qualified inpidual, or membership in any other class protected by applicable law. The Company hires and promotes inpiduals based on their qualifications for the job to be filled.

The Company seeks to build a culturally perse staff where differences are valued and respected. Women, minorities, inpiduals with various abilities, veterans, LGBTQ and intersectional inpiduals are encouraged to apply.

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