Mechanical Technician
EnvivaPosted February 25, 2025
Epes, Alabama
Biomass EnergyFull Time
Job Description
The position involves performing preventive maintenance and repairs on critical machinery in a pellet manufacturing facility, ensuring equipment reliability and adherence to safety standards. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, equipment inspections, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives in maintenance practices.
Responsibilities
- •Ensure proper preventive maintenance on critical and auxiliary machinery
- •Assemble, cut, thread, and lay pipes
- •Perform diagnosis, troubleshooting, and repairs on various equipment
- •Coordinate preventive maintenance and lubrication as scheduled
- •Document required inspections of equipment
- •Analyze equipment performance and implement necessary changes
- •Identify corrective actions to improve equipment reliability
- •Perform rigging of equipment and follow safety procedures
- •Operate mobile equipment as necessary
- •Maintain housekeeping to meet safety standards
Requirements
- •Must be able to work safely obeying OSHA and Enviva standards for practices.
- •Be able to lift 50 lbs. and 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, maintain various types of equipment.
- •Ability to repair, maintain, troubleshoot pumps, conveyors, valves, cylinders, bearings, motors and other types of rotating equipment.
- •Must demonstrate strong verbal and written skills.
- •Experience with computerized maintenance management system.
- •Skilled in use of Windows, Excel, Word, Outlook.
- •Must be willing to complete training as required by Supervisor and specified by Enviva.
- •Able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing, bending, squatting, crawling, and or pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day.
- •Must use required provided PPE including but not limited to safety glasses, hard hat, gloves, safety toe boots, hearing protection.
- •Must adhere to the health and safety standards outlined or trained by the company.
- •Able to work around moving equipment and machinery.
- •Ability to safely and successfully perform the 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
- •Compensation/salary range
- •Work schedule
- •Work environment perks
- •Any additional benefits
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