Job Description
The position involves performing preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining machinery and equipment in a pellet manufacturing facility, ensuring safety, efficiency, and continuous operation of the plant.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on critical and auxiliary machinery in pellet manufacturing.
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and repair motors, gearboxes, pumps, conveyors, fans, and other equipment.
- Assemble, install, repair, and maintain piping and various mechanical components.
- Operate tools and equipment such as hand tools, power tools, welding machines, and mobile equipment.
- Conduct inspections, maintain reports, and analyze equipment performance to ensure optimal operation.
- Perform lubrication, rigging, and equipment changes to improve reliability and throughput.
- Follow safety procedures, adhere to environmental and health guidelines, and maintain a clean work environment.
- Maintain accurate records of maintenance activities and equipment status.
Requirements
- Must be able to work safely, obeying OSHA and Enviva standards for practices
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs., climb ladders, and provide own basic tools
- Experience in preventative, predictive, and proactive maintenance procedures, troubleshooting, servicing mobile heavy equipment
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills in hydraulics, lubrication, and mechanical equipment basic understanding of types of lubricants and application of each
- Ability to analyze process flow to identify issues
- Ability to cut, thread, and lay pipes; repair, install, and maintain various types of equipment
- Ability to repair, maintain, troubleshoot pumps, conveyors, valves, cylinders, bearings, motors, and other types of rotating equipment
- Meticulous, attention to detail
- Must demonstrate strong verbal and written skills
- Experience with a computerized maintenance management system
- Skilled in the use of Windows, Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Must be willing to complete training as required by the Supervisor and specified by Enviva
- High School Diploma or equivalent technical degree (preferred)
- A minimum of three (3) years experience working in a manufacturing environment (preferred)
- Knowledge and experience with industrial electricity, mechanics, hydraulics, pneumatics, bearings, and welding (preferred)
- Ability to develop and maintain accurate records (preferred)
- Proficient in mathematics and measurements (preferred)
- Experience with hydraulics, pneumatics, welding, fabrication, vibration analysis, and precision alignment (preferred)
- Able to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees
- Willing and able to work in a hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environment
- Ability to work evenings, weekends, and overnight to address unexpected site issues with or without notice
- Must be available to work any shift any day; overtime is frequent
- Able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing, bending, squatting, crawling, and pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day
- Must use required PPE, including safety glasses, hard hat, gloves, safety toe boots, hearing protection
- Able to work around moving equipment and machinery
- Able to pull and lift up to 50 lbs.
- Ability to safely and successfully perform essential job functions consistent with the ADA
- Ability to work well in high places in excess of 100 feet, climb ladders, climb a crane, and use man lifts
- Ability to work in confined spaces
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: Not specified
Work schedule: Ability to work evenings, weekends, overnight, any shift, any day, with frequent overtime
Work environment perks: Ability to work in outdoor environments, in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees, in hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environments, around moving equipment and machinery, in high places over 100 feet, in confined spaces
Additional benefits: Must use provided PPE, adhere to health and safety standards, opportunities for training, and a purpose-driven, purpose-driven, global energy company focused on renewable energy and sustainability
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