Maintenance Associate (REQ391)

Maintenance Associate – Up to $24 per hour.

Night Shift Opportunity

Sheboygan Falls, WI

How can you make a difference at your job and can have the opportunity to grow?

Join the Sheboygan Falls Team!

In Sheboygan Falls we heavily support medical, food, and graphic arts customers with thin gauge plastic sheeting for thermoforming and printing applications. You’ve most likely seen a product that was made from materials from our plant—iTunes cards, Home Depot signs, even the covers of comic books. We are currently looking for associates to join our team to support our variety of customers. If you meet the qualifications and want to make a difference in a fast-paced environment with a company that has a large focus on safety and success, Spartech might be the ideal company for you.

Job Summary

The Maintenance Associate is vital part of a team. Responsible for safely completing maintenance assignments to build, repair and/or maintain all equipment in good operating condition as accurately as possible, while keeping associated costs to a minimum to help meet Plant goals. The Maintenance Team is multi-skilled and able to contribute to plant maintenance activities in a variety of craft disciplines. This position reports to the Sheboygan Falls Maintenance Manager.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Completes projects with minimal guidance showing a proactive attitude to minimizing equipment down time and lost production capability.
• Troubleshoots mechanical devices in operation. Dismantles and examines devices to gain access to and remove defective parts. Adjusts, repairs, or replaces defective parts.
• Effectively communicates to fellow technicians and production staff verbally as well as email.
• Sets up and operates shop machinery such as drill press, grinders, band saws, cutting torch, welder. etc. Uses hand tools and pneumatic tools to modify or repair parts and equipment.
• Installs new or repairs/modifies electronic, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment as needed.
• Works to improve reliability and up-time of all equipment.
• Operates forklift and aerial lift platform as needed.
• Researches supplies, parts and tools needed to efficiently complete work orders.
• Assists in identifying and maintaining an accurate inventory of parts by effective utilization of a CMMS.
• Contributes to upkeep and updating of required paperwork such as records, maintenance logs, documents, manuals, drawings, PM logs, etc.
• Supports the vision, mission, and guiding principles of the company.
• Follows applicable Safety, Health and Environmental rules and guidelines while performing job duties.
• Maintains departmental housekeeping standards.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Required Education and Skills:

• Must have a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Must have basic skills on use of computers: MS Office, Windows.
• Must be able to navigate electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic schematics and blueprints for planning and troubleshooting.

• Must have math skills to add, subtract, multiply and divide and the ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement, volume, and distance. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.)
• Must have ability to reason and address complex problems.
• Must have manual dexterity sufficient to operate a wide variety of hand tools, hand trucks, forklift, mechanical platforms and lifts, bench tools, welders, saws, drills etc.
• Industrial Electrical experience including working with 3 phase motors, 480v and below.

Years of Experience:

• 5 years of prior experience in industrial maintenance, electrical, mechanical, or in a related field; or a combination of education and experience deemed equivalent.

Required Certification, Licenses, Registration:

• Specific Craft Certification/Licenses a plus
• Technical education a plus

Benefits

We offer competitive salary, incentive, and benefit programs. Most Benefits Start Day ONE!

Benefits include:

• Medical, Dental, & Vision.
• Company paid life and long-term and short-term disability programs.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• 401(k) with a strong matching program.
• 120 hours Paid Time Off (pro-rated based on hire date).
• 11 paid holidays

Spartech LLC, headquartered in Maryland