Maintenance Technician

Legal Entity: Woodbridge Inoac Technical Products Chattanooga LLC  

Requisition ID: 2775

Woodbridge is a privately-owned company offering innovative material technologies for applications in automotive, commercial, recreational, packaging, healthcare and building products. In addition to manufacturing operations, the company also offers a full array of services including: chemical research and development, product and process engineering, tooling, technical support and accredited laboratory testing. Woodbridge operates more than 46 facilities across 9 countries—employing over 7,500 teammates and serving more than 600 customers worldwide.

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

• Follow all general safety regulations and use provided safety equipment as required. See JSA & PDA for this position for details safety instructions.
• Understand ISO 9001 requirements / the Woodbridge Quality Policy. Always follow work instructions and procedures as established through the Woodbridge Quality Policy.
• Source, quote, order, receiving and management of maintenance parts and equipment from vendors and contractors.
• Manage purchase requisitions, purchase orders and receiving in the ITS system.
• Work with other departments within the facility to establish re-stocking points for MRO items.
• Work with Accounting to reconcile receiving legers for items purchased through the ITS P.O. system.
• Maintain plant downtime and equipment records for the facility.
• Help maintain inventory control of parts and equipment.
• Maintain all contractor and vendor information packets and insurance certificates (part of the HSE Element activities and the INS Vendor system).
• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• Can be called upon to receive maintenance request and work orders and dispatch maintenance technicians, accordingly, working with the Maintenance Supervisor.
• Keep area neat, organized, and clean as well as follow 5S principles as they are appropriate.
• Support 5S activities throughout the facility including Kaizen submissions.
• Cross train in other positions as required.
• Other duties may be assigned as needed by the employee’s supervisor.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
May be called upon for limited supervision of the maintenance technicians in the absence of the Maintenance Supervisor.

QUALIFICATIONS:

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

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE:

Prefer two-year technical training, Associate’s degree or military training and five years’ experience.  A background in Industrial Maintenance would be an added benefit in this position.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read and interpret documents and training materials such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Strong interpersonal and oral communication skills are required.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Must have the ability to work with basic mathematical concepts, fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions in practical situations.  AutoCAD experience would be an added benefit in this position.

REASONING ABILITY:

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.  Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.  Ability to read and understand mechanical (CAD) drawings.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, feel; reach with hands and arms; climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk, and hear. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock; and vibration.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

WORK SCHEDULE:

Standard work hours will consist of eight hours per day, five days per week on an assigned shift.

Schedule hours may be altered as required by business conditions. This may be more (or less) than eight hours per day or five days per week. An ability to work overtime or irregular hours to include Saturdays, Sundays and holidays may be required for this position.

EQUIPMENT USED:

• Microsoft Office suite of products.
• Fax, copies and other office equipment.
• Measuring equipment, including but not to limited to… Tape Measure, Calipers, Gauges, Scales etc.…

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Woodbridge is committed to fostering a diverse workplace. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider applicants without regard to race, colour, ancestry, creed, place of origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other protected status. If you have any accommodation requirements, please let us know, and we will do our best to meet your needs in accordance with applicable local legislation.