Maintenance Mechanic I

Want to build a brighter, bolder future and cultivate your career? Join Ecolab’s team and help create a world in which we all thrive. 

Ecolab is seeking a Maintenance Mechanic to join our team in Asheville, NC. As a Maintenance Mechanic, you’ll be responsible for applying Ecolab standards, and ensuring safe, sustainable, and efficient operations to maintain plant equipment and infrastructure. You will participate in essential TPM tasks, including safety and environmental procedures, progressive quality initiatives, autonomous maintenance, focused improvement, preventive maintenance, and 5S practices. 

How You’ll Make an Impact: 

• Understand and comply with SH&E standards, actively promote safe and responsible behavior, and positively challenge any unsafe practices by completing monthly safety observations

• Proactively propose and implement improvements to existing work practices and quality of products

• Look for and record non-conformances on equipment and report to Maintenance Manager

• Contribute to root cause analysis and develop solutions to help with quality management

• Monitor effectiveness of maintenance activities to maximize equipment availability

• Implement continuous improvement activities via problem solving or tagging activities, contribute fully to TPM improvement teams, and promote a culture of continuous improvement

• Follow standard maintenance procedures, proposing and implementing improvements, and ensuring timely completion of all maintenance tasks. These tasks may consist of electrical, welding, plumbing, troubleshooting on filler equipment, tank and pipes, and part replacements as well as PLC programming

• Complete all planned and preventative maintenance tasks on-time including timely escalation of potential issues to engineering team

• Propose new preventative maintenance tasks or updates for the existing preventative maintenance tasks

• Carry out safe and effective equipment repairs, including urgent breakdown repairs

• Perform other duties as assigned 

Position Details:

• Plant Location:  Asheville, North Carolina

• Work Week & Shift:  Weekend shift: Friday - Sunday, 7:00AM-7:00PM

• Compensation: $25/hr

Minimum Qualifications: 

• High School Diploma, GED or equivalent

• 2 years of experience working in an industrial maintenance environment

• 1 year of experience with electronic and PLC based applications in an industrial environment

• 1 year of experience with electrical and mechanical syst