PJ Tube has an opportunity for an experienced maintenance technician. This individual will be responsible for servicing, maintaining, rebuilding, and repairing a wide variety of production or processing machines and equipment manufacturing facility. Additional responsibilities will include building and facilities maintenance and repair. Work performed includes electrical, programmable logic control, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic.

We offer a lucrative benefit package that includes medical with an employee clinic, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, cancer coverage, accident coverage, paid holiday and vacation, company match 401K, and paid uniform service.

A typical day would consist of the following:

· Performs required and/or scheduled Preventive Maintenance checks and performs adjustments, cleaning, lubrication and replacement of parts on various equipment; to ensure that the equipment is in superior operating and safe condition.

· Uses a variety of power and hand tools such as, but not limited to, drills, saws, wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers and grease guns to perform repairs and maintenance of machinery and equipment.

· Uses electrical arc welder, grinder and cutting torch.

· Repairs may include working with voltage up to and including 600 volts DC and 480 volts AC.

· Maintenance Technician will set up and operate various types of production machinery and equipment after they have performed a repair or rebuild prior to approving production usage to ensure superior operating and safe conditions.

· Required to work from verbal or written instructions.

· Required to read blueprints in order to troubleshoot and repair equipment.

· Often required to crawl into, under, or on top of equipment and machinery while following OSHA LOTO Regulations.

· Required to dismantle, move, install, or repair machinery or mechanical equipment, to repair, rebuild or replace broken parts usually of the heavy type.

· Often required to climb ladders to make repairs, rebuild or install equipment or machinery.

· Works on major projects such as complete equipment and machinery rebuilds, design alterations or modification of existing equipment or machinery.

· Communicates with production operators to obtain information on nature of equipment failure in order to trouble shoot problems, and examine machinery or mechanical equipment to identify reason for malfunction.

· Utilizes electrical meters and hand tools to perform maintenance repairs, rebuilds, and troubleshooting on production machinery.

· Lays out, assembles, installs, tests, repairs and adjusts electrical fixtures, apparatus, equipment, machinery, and wiring. Examples of equipment include, but are not limited to, motors, welding equipment, lighting fixtures, circuit breakers, transformers, programmable logic controls.

· Installs, repairs, and calibrates electrical and electronic recording devices, and regulating control instruments.

· Measures, cuts, threads and installs electrical conduit. Pulls wiring through conduit. Splices wires. Connects wiring to fixtures and power equipment. Installs grounding leads. Installs and monitors performance of installed electrical equipment for hazards, adjustments or replacement.