Maintenance Mechanic

Essential Job Duties:

• Perform welding fabrication including layout and design, and repair of mild steel, stainless steel and aluminum.  Must be proficient with MIG, TIG, Stick, cutting torches, grinders, drills, and working with metal, pipe, and flat iron
• Perform regular preventative maintenance and emergency/unscheduled repairs on plant facilities, equipment, and machinery including pumps, gearboxes, augers, grinders, mixers, conveyors, filling machines and sealers
• Assemble, install and/or repair electrical on three phase and single phase circuitry
• Perform a variety of plumbing maintenance and carpentry functions
• Replace or repair defective equipment and parts
• Perform minor building repair and upkeep
• Diagnose mechanical problems and determine how to correct them, checking blueprints, repair manuals, and parts catalogs as necessary
• Inspect, operate, and test plant facilities, equipment, and machinery
• Procure and maintain an optimum inventory of spare parts, tools, and supplies adequately organized in storage
• Clean and lubricate shafts, bearings, gears, and other parts of machinery
• Ability to be fit tested and don a mask
• Maintain a clean and safe working environment
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Reliable presence and promptness on premises
• Ability to look up and order parts needed to fix equipment
• Ability to communicate with Supervisors, Associates, and Contractors for work projects
• Project management including task sequencing, resource management, scheduling
• Specialty Skills such as welding, carpentry, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, etc.
• Researching information Decision-making and problem-solving
• Performing general physical activities, handling and moving objects

• Able to work well with other and organize own activities
• Complete all jobs with a sense of urgency and cooperation with others
• Exhibit superior safety practices every day evidenced by outstanding housekeeping at all times
• Exercise maximum care to protect the environment by fostering and supporting responsible operating procedures
• Embrace and drive constant improvement
• Extend treatment to all other employees of the Company as individuals with the courtesy and dignity shown to customers
• Exceed customer quality and service expectations through attention to detail
• Listen to others’ ideas and pursue personal and company growth with passion
• Pursue ways to increase your qualifications and experience
• Find ways to help others without lessening your performance

Qualification Requirements

• Minimum of High school diploma or GED
• Certified Forklift operation
• Current Driver’s License and clean record
• Certified Welder preferred
• Fabrication experience preferred

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are the 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 regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to ten pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to fifty pounds, and rarely lift and/or move more than one-hundred pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Verdesian Life Sciences is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex, and sexual orientation.