Principal Maintenance Technician

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform maintenance on automated production machinery to reduce equipment downtime and meet production schedules.
• Conduct preventive and predictive maintenance to ensure equipment availability.
• Focus on process and equipment improvement and innovation.
• Comprehend regulatory and documentation procedures to initiate and fully implement new manufacturing processes and equipment, or modifications with minimal supervision.
• Work in close partnership with production, quality, engineering, drafting, purchasing, and suppliers to aid plant operations and capital projects.
• Investigate root cause technical issues and work independently or in a team to mitigate them.
• Seek opportunities for improvement for the company, the plant, co-workers, and yourself.
• Engage and empower others while improving your own abilities.
• Lead contractors and maintenance techs with minimal engineering support on projects.
• Train new and upcoming maintenance techs in all aspects of their job and develop their project management skills.
• Self-educate and participate in implementing brand new maintenance/manufacturing practices.
• Drive innovation and build complex solutions for engineering design challenges.
• Carry out engineering tasks routinely to support plant objectives.

Qualifications

• Work safely and be trained in all appropriate plant safety programs.
• Partner with engineering to develop solutions for new equipment and processes.
• Specify and develop control architecture.
• Build and layout control solutions.
• Apply new technology to drive innovation.
• Direct support personnel and contractors during projects.
• Perform equipment relocations.
• Crate or uncrate parts.
• Make mechanical adjustments and alignments.
• Identify and order spare parts.
• Document all work.
• Clean up before leaving.
• Keep the shop clean.
• Attend trainings and meetings.
• Participate in projects and upgrades, manage a basic project budget, and have P-Card and/or Travel Card responsibilities.
• Be proficient in technical drawings and schematics for electrical, mechanical, pneumatics, and hydraulics.
• Work with suppliers to resolve technical issues.
• Lead a technical team to implement new processes.
• Electrical: Troubleshoot, repair, and collaborate with automated equipment, modify, or write new software using programmable logic controllers (PLC) systems (Siemens, Allen Bradley, etc.).
• Electrical: Implement new PLC controllers and software to improve reliability, quality, and efficiency.
• Electrical: Troubleshoot/repair photo eyes, limit and proximity switches, temperature controllers, variable speed drives, motors, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, electrical systems up to 480V, 3 phase, component level repair of obsolete control components.
• Mechanical: Work well with hand tools, understand gearbox and conveyor systems, fabricate, operate skyjack, scissor lift, forklift, counterbalance, ladder work. Welding, carpentry, plumbing, HVAC a plus.
• Mechanical: Knowledge of Hepa filtration systems, UV light systems, appliance repair is a plus.
• Have cross-functional expertise (i.e., electrical/controls/mechanical).
• Mechanical: Fabrication experience (welding, basic shop activities).
• Apply GMP to daily routine.
• Identify and troubleshoot/accurate Hazard IDs.
• Lead contractors or other maintenance techs on projects.
• Ensure contractors follow GMP, safety rules, and have training to work in the facility.
• Maintain regular and predictable attendance.
• Be self-motivated, continuously improve, and find work that needs to be done.

Education and/or Experience

• Minimum high school diploma or GED, or equivalent experience, required.
• Technical associate’s degree (2-year) preferred but not required.
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience or proven expertise is required, or 3 years serving as a Principle Maintenance Technician (PMT).
• Strong communication skills.