Maintenance

Position Summary

Repairs and maintains machinery, mechanical equipment and facility which includes engines, motors, hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, conveyors, production equipment and building equipment.

This position also delivers on our core focus of:

• Service Matters
• Relationships Count
• Performance Delivered

While building on our core values of:                                                                             

• Help 1^st 
• Take ownership
• Do the right thing
• Expect excellence

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Scheduled and preventative maintenance on equipment and building
• Observes mechanical devices in operation and listens to their sounds to identify the location of their problems
• Dismantles and reassembles equipment that is need of repair
• Examines form and texture of parts to detect imperfections
• Inspects used parts to determine changes in dimensional requirements
• Adjusts functional parts of devices and control instruments
• Installs new or repairs current defective parts
• Installs special functional and structural parts in devices
• Lubricates and cleans parts
• Starts devices to assure their performance
• Sets up and operates various maintenance equipment to repair parts
• Tracks work that is performed on equipment
• Addresses issues of future needed equipment
• Observes all safety policies and procedures including LOTO
• Ability to work in excess of 40 hours, as business needs arise
• Regular and reliable attendance
• Any other task or duty that is deemed necessary by management.

Cultural Competencies 

Help First means being a reliable team member serving everyone, internally and externally. At Akers, we believe and exhibit a “roll up your sleeves and get the job done” mentality and behavior.  No job is unimportant, and no person is above any job.  We demonstrate this through:

• Able communicator—good clarity, balanced talker, and listener
• Has energy and enthusiasm

Take Ownership means that you think and act like an owner.  No matter the role, everyone is empowered to be a good steward of the organization.  Each person has the autonomy to make recommendations for improvement to their work and the organization.  We demonstrate this through:

• Patient
• Effectively assertive and able to handle conflict and confrontational situations
• Solution vs. blame oriented
• Mixture of firmness and flexibility
• Has energy and enthusiasm
• Holds self and others accountable

Do the Right Thing means that you do the right thing for the customer, regardless of its popularity.  Doing the right thing at the right time requires a person to have and exhibit high moral standards.

• Systematic trainer, willing and able to develop people
• Good work ethic, task focused and willing to extend extra effort
• Able to follow structure where it exists and create structure where it does not

Expect Excellence means that you think and act like an owner.  No matter the role, everyone is empowered to be a good steward of the organization.  We demonstrate this through:

• Resilient—able to deal with the unexpected, not easily flustered
• Has sense of urgency
• Follows up to ensure quality task completion

Work Environment / Physical Demands 

Fast paced environment, requiring adaptation to continuous changes in Company, Customer and People needs

• Ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, reach with hands and arm’s length, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, and crouch.
• Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.

Systems Usage 

• MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams)
• ERP system (such as HRMS, Amtech, Parabox, etc.)
• ADP Workforce Now

Qualifications

Education & Experience:  

• GED or High school diploma, preferred
• 18 years of age or older

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with systems mentioned above