Job Title: Maintenance Mechanic

Job Description

The Maintenance Mechanic will perform a variety of preventative, routine, and emergency tasks for the upkeep and sustaining of plant machinery and infrastructure used to produce high-performance pigments. The role supports a production facility that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week to meet customer demands.

Responsibilities

• Follow all work instructions, equipment procedures, quality standards, general maintenance standards, and safety rules and regulations.

• Safely maintain equipment, machinery, and infrastructure to satisfy customer requirements.

• Independently repair equipment and machinery by researching equipment files, removing defective parts, dismantling devices, and making required adjustments using hoists, cranes, power tools, and other non-power tools.

• Accurately record time, activities, and goods movements for all maintenance work orders using the supplied system.

• Ensure proper documentation by revising specifications as needed.

• Locate sources of problems by observing mechanical devices in operation, listening for problems, and using precision measuring and testing instruments.

Essential Skills

• 5+ years of experience in mechanical maintenance within an industrial manufacturing environment.

• Experience troubleshooting gearboxes, pumps, valves, actuators, pipes, seals, bearings, and shafts.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with manual lathe or mill would be a plus!!

• Ability to fabricate parts such as bearings, seals, and shafts.

Why Work Here?

Enjoy a great team culture that feels like family, competitive benefits, and frequent employee appreciation events such as cookouts. You will work alongside experienced colleagues, some of whom have been with the company for over 20 years. All tools are provided, and you will have the opportunity to upgrade systems to newer technologies.

Work Environment

The work environment is an industrial chemical manufacturing setting with non-climate controlled conditions and older equipment. Expect to get dirty as the facility produces red paint. The standard work hours are 6:30 am to 3:00 pm, Monday to Friday, with an on-call rotation based on team size. Currently, the on-call rotation is every three weeks from 3 pm to 6:30 am for a week. Once fully staffed, on-call duty will be every other month. Employees are currently working 10-hour shifts, which includes 10 hours of mandatory overtime. The dress code requires long sleeves, long pants, steel-toe boots, and safety glasses. The culture emphasizes getting along, having fun, and being a team player.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $29.00 - $34.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision

• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital

• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available

• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)

• Short and long-term disability

• Health Spending Account (HSA)

• Transportation benefits

• Employee Assistance Program

• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Goose Creek,SC.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Mar 12, 2025.

About Aerotek:

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.