Mechanical Maintenance Technician – Day Shift

Blue Island, IL

CTS seeks a qualified and reliable mechanical maintenance technician. This full-time position reports to the maintenance manager.

Responsibilities:

  • Take a personal interest in personal and team safety. Continuously look for ways to improve safety and assist others to the same.
  • Utilize all safety equipment required by the company and follow all company guidelines safety standards.
  • Attend all safety meetings as scheduled.
  • Maintain cleanliness and organization of work area.
  • Maintain, clean, and organize tools required for the job.
  • Help maintain working inventories and general repair parts and supplies.
  • Provide preventative maintenance of equipment and infrastructure.
  • Inspect operating equipment, complete inspection sheets, and report concerns and problems to management.
  • Correct malfunctions or irregularities of operating equipment and safety hazards or report to management if corrections cannot be made.
  • Perform routine lubrication schedule for equipment.
  • Communicate with operators to identify or anticipate issues, allowing quick mitigation or prevention of plant issues. Serve as a main contact point for ongoing repairs and day to day maintenance activities.
  • Make repairs that are needed within your capabilities, including: cutting, welding, fabrication, and machine repairs such as replacement of bearings / seals / belts / hoses / chains / etc.
  • Equipment maintenance to include bucket elevators, belt conveyors, screw conveyors, paddle mixers, pumps, fans, air compressors, air blowers, packers, and mobile equipment.
  • Safely operate plant mobile equipment to include but not limited to manlifts, scissor lifts, and forklifts.
  • Assist in planned and unplanned downtime projects, shutdowns, and emergency work.
  • Serve as a resource for quality, site safety, scheduling, and planning for maintenance and rebuild activities.
  • This job may require shift work, callouts, scheduled and unscheduled hours. Employee may have work schedule adjusted on short notice.
  • All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • 3+ years of industrial maintenance experience.
  • Possesses the mechanical and technical skills to accomplish required machine maintenance.  
  • Good mechanical aptitude and comfortable working with equipment.
  • Good safety and attendance record.
  • Ability to read and interpret documents including but not limited to safety rules, operation and maintenance instructions, and lab procedure manuals.
  • Communicate effectively with fellow workers and supervisors.
  • Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
  • Self-starter and works well independently.
  • Good basic math skills, arithmetic, and basic algebra.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee will frequently be required to walk on rocky, irregular surfaces that may be muddy and in reduced lighting conditions. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100+ pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to dust. The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, confined space, outside weather conditions, low lighting and artificial lighting. The employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, heat, proximity to electrical equipment, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and occasionally loud.

Great companies are built by great people. At the heart of CTS’ success is our team of employees-owners whose integrity, commitment and willingness to go the extra mile stand behind everything we do. Because of our employee-owners, we have earned the reputation of providing outstanding products and service to customers, dealers and distributors. If interested in working in the exciting and growing world of cement, email your resume and cover letter. CTS is an equal-opportunity employer.

We are only able to respond to candidates who are qualified for the position. No recruiters, no staffing firms, and no phone calls, please.