Maintenance Helper

Flex-N-Gate is a leading manufacturer and supplier of components for the automotive industry, recently ranked 10th of the 150 Top North American Suppliers in “Automotive News.” A growing and vital company, Flex-N-Gate provides a great opportunity for hard-working and skilled individuals.


Key Areas of Responsibility & Accountability

• Transfer tools, parts, equipment, and supplies to and from workstations and other areas.
• Disassemble broken or defective equipment to facilitate the repair and reassemble equipment when repairs are complete.
• Install or replace machinery, equipment, and new or replacement parts and instruments, using hand or power tools.
• Examine and test machinery, equipment, components, and parts for defects to ensure proper functioning.
• Hold or supply tools, parts, equipment, and supplies for other workers.
• Position vehicles, machinery, equipment, physical structures, and other objects for assembly or installation, using hand tools, power tools, and moving equipment.
• Adjust, maintain, and repair tools, equipment, and machines, and assist more skilled workers with similar tasks.
• Adjust, connect, or disconnect wiring, piping, tubing, and other parts, using hand or power tools.
• Clean or lubricate, machinery, equipment, instruments, tools, work areas, and other objects, using hand tools, power tools, and cleaning equipment.
• Assemble and maintain physical structures, using hand or power tools.
• Load/unload trucks as necessary.
• Change bucks and repair racks as required.
• Support facilities when needed.
• Complete forklift inspections and checklists.
• Maintain a clean, safe and organized work area in accordance with company standards.
• Alert supervisor, manager or team leader if complications or defects occur.
• Document all activities as required.
• Provide support and maintain compliance with all company guidelines, union contracts, IATF16949, ISO14001, and all applicable government regulations and standards.
• Any additional responsibilities deemed necessary by management.


Basic Education and Experience

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Previous manufacturing experience preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

Knowledge of:
• Customer needs, meeting quality standards for products and services.
• Production processes, quality control, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture, assembly and distribution of goods
• Machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Arithmetic and it’s applications.
• Tools and principles involved in production of product

Skills:
• Follow directions
• Read and write the English language
• Safely drive a forklift
• Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
• Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
• Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.

Ability to:
• Maintain recordkeeping systems and procedures
• Communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with supervisory personnel and co-workers
• Maintain systems necessary to collect, to maintain, and analyze data
• Identify basic problems and communicate them to supervisory personnel.
• Manage one’s own time.
• Learn/gain knowledge
• Appropriately use equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
• The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.


Health, Safety and Physical Demand Requirements

• The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer)
• Ability to work in both a non-climate controlled manufacturing and office environment.
• Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, pushing/pulling and handling of materials.
• Must be able to stand 90% of the time with frequent walking.
• Lift using one or two hands up to 50 lbs.
Occasional use of forceful abilities from 1 to 30 pounds during the duration of the shift.

This job description is not inclusive. The duties, experience, functions, and any other descriptions herein may be changed at any time and other duties may be assigned as necessary. The company reserves the right to add, delete, or otherwise alter these responsibilities when and as necessary.


• Medical, dental, prescription, vision, life and disab