Maintenance Technician – Night Shift – KY

Introduction to BlueOval SK

At BlueOval SK, we will lead the transformation of the electric vehicle (EV) battery business through partnership (Joint Venture formed by Ford and SK On) to provide products and processes to increase our customers’ experience. As the future of BlueOval SK, you will help lead the battery revolution by working alongside our teams as we build the batteries required for electric vehicle business excellence.

Ford and SK On are investing billions in Kentucky and Tennessee including building three state-of-the-art battery manufacturing facilities between the two campuses at BlueOval City in Tennessee and BlueOval SK Battery Park in Kentucky. These brand-new advanced manufacturing facilities will use Ford’s 100 years of automobile manufacturing expertise and SK On’s 30+ years of electric vehicle battery expertise to become the world’s best battery manufacturer.

About the Opportunity

The Maintenance Technician at BlueOval SK will play a pivotal role as a part of the start-up team, contributing to the successful launch and establishment of our new manufacturing facility.

Schedule

This position will start on day shift schedule (with first several weeks on M-F schedule for onboarding) and is expected to transition to a night shift schedule in early 2025. Transition to night shift is a requirement for this position.

Competitive Wages include:

• $32/hour starting wage
• Opportunity to make up to $38/hour
• $1 Night Shift differential
• Two scheduled increases each year totaling $1/hour increase per hour. Increases are provided until employee reaches the max of the established pay range.
• Two performance bonus payments per year, total of 5% of annual salary
• More details provided upon hire

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Inspects and checks equipment for proper operating condition, makes necessary adjustments, logs test readings, and maintains, repairs, or replaces all essential equipment parts
• Capable of working with outside contractors for trouble shooting procedures
• Self-motivated person that works with little direction
• Understanding urgency to trouble shoot machines and bring production back online
• Performs miscellaneous maintenance duties as required
• Read blueprints, hydraulic and pneumatic schematics, mechanical/electrical diagrams, and technical orders to determine methods and sequences of assembly
• Align, fit, and assemble component parts, using hand tools, power tools, fixtures, templates
• Operate metalworking machines to fabricate housings, jigs, fittings, and fixtures
• Repair, rework, and calibrate hydraulic and pneumatic assemblies and systems to meet operational specifications and tolerances
• Prepare parts sketches and write work orders
• Review project instructions and specifications to identify, modify and plan requirements fabrication, assembly and testing
• Devise, fabricate, and assemble new or modified mechanical components for products such as industrial machinery or equipment, and measuring instruments
• Analyze test results in relation to design or rated specifications and test objectives, and modify or adjust equipment to meet specifications
• Confer with engineers and other personnel to implement operating procedures, resolve system malfunctions, and provide technical information
• Research, evaluate, install, operate, and maintain mechanical products, equipment, systems and processes to meet requirements, applying knowledge of engineering principles
• Investigate equipment failures and difficulties to diagnose faulty operation, and to make recommendations
• Oversee installation, operation, maintenance, and repair to ensure that machines and equipment are installed and functioning according to specifications
• Perform preventative maintenance and calibration of equipment and systems
• Identify and resolve equipment malfunctions, working with manufacturers and field representatives as necessary to procure replacement parts
• Maintain system logs and manuals to document testing and operation of equipment
• Strict adherence to lock out tag out procedures
• Replaces or repairs machine belts, chains, or cables.
• Removes dust, dirt, grease, and waste material from machines.
• Connects wire to motors, fixtures, and other electrical equipment, replaces switches and fuses, and splices wire and insulates wire with friction tape
• Other tasks as assigned

Work Environment and Essential Functions

BlueOval SK facilities are some of the most advanced manufacturing environments in the industry.