Maintenance Technician
Maintenance Technician
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Location:
Hopewell VA Filling industrial DryiceHow will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW
***$3000 SIGNON BONUS***Airgas is seeking a Maintenance Technician for one of our 7 Dry Ice facilities. The Maintenance Technician will assist with tasks such as performing equipment repairs and preventive maintenance on production equipment. At least one day available to work on weekends is required.
Whats in it for me
Airgas offers HMO health plans 401K and 2 weeks vacation as a new employee! Our employees can also take advantage of Life Insurance AD&D Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance sick time Tuition Reimbursement and much more! If you are looking for a fulltime permanent position affordable healthcare and career growth we want to talk to you!
Responsibilities
Performs repairs and installations on all plant production equipment.
Completes preventive maintenance as assigned.
Performs equipment inspections to ensure proper operation and safety.
Communicates repair functions with production supervisors.
Identifies and communicates safety hazards and quality deficiencies to maintenance management.
Operates a forklift and/or pallet jack as needed to perform job functions.
Enters data into maintenance and inventory software systems.
Knows and complies with all safety and quality policies and procedures.
Cleanup as required including but not limited to sweeping washing painting trash removal and pickup.
Occasional assistance with production needs.
Are you a MATCH
Qualifications
Three 3 years experience in a production/manufacturing environment working in a maintenance capacity.
High degree of technical aptitude and skill to learn the function and repair of plant production equipment.
Selfstarter able to take direction problem solves to repair and maintain plant production equipment and systems.
Good written and verbal skills with basic math skills (add subtract multiply divide).
Proficient in data entry and manipulation of maintenance software and inventory systems.
Able to operate a forklift safely and efficiently.
Certified industrial refrigeration experience highly desired.
High School or equivalent (GED) preferred.
Formal training in one or more of the following: General Industrial Maintenance Hydraulics Industrial Electrical Systems PLC Programming Industrial Refrigeration Compressors Pneumatics.
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before customers or associates.
Ability to add subtract multiply and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers common fractions and decimals.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written oral or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Essential job function requires the routine lifting of items weighing at least 50 pounds. Turning wrenches requiring pulling strength. Ability to safely climb ladders and work overhead.
Function safely in a noisy environment with safe but elevated levels of CO2 vapor present in the facility. Able to think clearly and troubleshoot during timesensitive outages.
What is the work environment like
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 regularly exposed to outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
Unconditioned work space (i.e. warm in summer cool in winter). Hazards require the use of personal protective equipment (i.e. hardhat safety glasses hearing protection and safety shoes). Wet oily floors create slipping hazards. Dry ice is extremely cold and therefore requires that gloves be worn when directly handling dry ice.Oncall and shift work required.
We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical dental and vision plans vacation sick time floating holidays and paid holidays for fulltime employees.
We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates.
Additionally we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds tuition reimbursement discounted college tuition for employees dependents and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.
Your differences enhance our performance
At Airgas we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees our customers patients community stakeholders and cultures across the world.
We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants regardless of their race gender sexual orientation religion disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.
Equal Employment Opportunity Information
We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic.
Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas an Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Companys written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement. This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon request.
Airgas an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process please contact us by email at .
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
