Skilled- Maintenance Technician
 QPS Employment Group | |
$56,160.00 / yr
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 United States, Illinois, Rockford | |
| 4040 East State Street (Show on map) | |
 Dec 20, 2024 | |
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Position Title: Maintenance Technician
Wage: $27.00-$32.00 per hour Shift: 1st, 2nd, 3rd QPS Employment Group has a great Maintenance Technician position available at a company in Rockford, IL. This is a direct hire position for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shift. Maintenance Technician Responsibilities include but are not limited to: - Support the packaging lines by making routine and non-routine adjustments that ensure a high-quality product. - Collaborate with other departments and other Maintenance Mechanics to obtain information or experience to keep lines running at an efficient rate. - Perform preventive maintenance, changeovers, repairs, and running adjustments. - Systematically gather information from a variety of sources, analyze the information, identify implications of data, draw appropriate conclusions, generate viable, alternative solutions to a question or problem, and evaluate the consequences of choosing each alternative. - Assert personal ideas and opinions to convince others. This includes gaining others' support through one's own actions, examples, or persuasion in an ethical manner. - Define, diagnose, and resolve problems. This includes seeking, logically examining, and interpreting information from different sources to determine a problem's cause and developing a course of action to resolve the problem and to prevent its recurrence. - Provide guidance to others by responding to questions; observing work activity; giving direction when necessary; and providing on-the-job training. - Use a variety of hand tools and power tools to perform specific duties. - Detect faulty operations, defective material, and report those and any unusual situation to proper personnel. - Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and services. - May require overtime and/or weekend work. - May require use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR). - Knowledge of and adherence to all PCI, cGMP, and GCP policies, procedures, rules. - Prompt escalation to supervisor of any safety issue, quality issue, or downtime following the established escalation protocol. - Perform Single Minute Exchange of Dies, (SMED) activities on packaging lines - Execute initiatives relating to OPEX objectives. - Analyze equipment failures to improve overall reliability of the equipment, while maintaining productivity. - Update setup documentation to ensure all settings are current and accurate. - Work with The Business Units and Scheduling to accurately maintain a timeline for any launch or validations of products. - Audit and maintain a high level of 5's in the facility to help maintain a safe, organized, clean high-performing workplace. - Document and drive actions for specific respected value stream. - Audit the centerline document system to insure sustainability and a high level of productivity. - Attend Tier I Daily Directional Setting (DDS) meeting. Give feedback and follow-ups when outages occur from the centerline document. Maintenance Technician Requirements: - Skill testing requirements met at approved grade level for position - Must have at least 2-3 years applicable maintenance experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment or 2-year Technical School. - Basic Mathematical and computer skills. Ability to perform basic computer tasks and can operate common computer programs. - Minimum professional proficiency: Ability to speak in a way that allows one to participate effectively in various conversations. Ability to read various types of standard items addressed to general readers. - High reasoning: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where there is only limited standardization. - Ability to interpret a variety of instructions that may be provided in various forms. david.franz@qpsemployment.com IND999 About us: QPS Employment Group is a full-service staffing firm comprised of dedicated and passionate people with over 50 offices throughout the Midwest. We place great people with great companies in industrial, skilled trades, administrative, manufacturing, general labor and professional employment. Why Work with QPS? -Access to sought-after positions with leading employers -Dedicated placement specialists who will guide you through every step of the job search process | |