Description

General Summary:

Diagnoses malfunctions and repair all equipment and complete daily work orders in the feed mill.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

A RESUME IS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION .

Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment

Fixing, servicing, aligning, setting up, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical principles.

Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material

Inspecting or diagnosing equipment, structures, or materials to identify the causes of errors or other problems or defects.

Performing General Physical Activities

Performing physical activities that require moving one's whole body, such as in climbing ladders repeatedly on any given day, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, where the activities often also require considerable use of the arms and legs, such as in the physical handling of materials and working in confined spaces. Equipment may be up to 120ft upwards to 20ft below ground reached via ladders and/or man lift (when operable).

Controlling Machines and Processes

Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).

Monitor Processes, Material, or Surroundings

Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, often to detect problems or to find out when things are finished.

Communicating With Other Workers

Providing information to supervisors, fellow workers, and subordinates.

Evaluating Information against Standards

Evaluating information against a set of standards and verifying that it is correct.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Mechanical

Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, benefits, repair, and maintenance

Physics

Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, and applications including air, water, material dynamics, light, atomic principles, heat, electric theory, earth formations, and meteorological and related natural phenomena

Repairing

Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools

Equipment Maintenance

Performing routine maintenance and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed

Problem Identification

Identifying the nature of problems

Troubleshooting

Determining what is causing an operating error and deciding what to do about it

Operation Monitoring

Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly

Equipment Selection

Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job

Strength

The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects up to 70lbs at heights up to 120ft and/or 20 ft below ground.

The ability to use one's abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing in excess of 12 hours per day and available on weekends when needed