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Signode • Gary, IN 46401 • Posted 3 days ago via LinkedIn

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The Maintenance Technician at Signode is responsible for ensuring production and operations run safely and efficiently, producing the highest possible production quality. This role involves troubleshooting and repairing equipment, maintaining inventory of repair equipment and supplies, and performing diversified duties to maintain production machines and facility equipment. The technician also plays a key role in safety issues, quality control, and continuous improvement efforts.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoots and repairs equipment utilizing prints, schematics.
  • Identifies and recommends corrections on electrical issues through knowledge of drives and PLCs.
  • Maintain inventory of repair equipment and supplies.
  • Perform highly diversified duties to maintain production machines and the facility’s equipment.
  • Ensure machine productivity and quality after repairs, changeovers, and extended down time.
  • Assist production in whatever the needed capacity (within trained knowledge) to ensure that quality and productivity standards and goals are met.
  • Respond quickly to safety issues or concerns that may put production employees at risk for injury, including rectifying immediate dangers with approval of management.
  • Check and inspect assigned equipment during preventative maintenance. Reports findings to supervisor and takes appropriate action.
  • Perform basic, simple repairs on forklifts to maintain production levels.
  • Maintain building safety and appearance including utilities, ventilation, housekeeping and plumbing including waste and process plumbing.
  • Perform projects towards continuous improvement and standardization work and any other duties assigned by the Maintenance Manager.
  • Complete and update maintenance work order tracking system.
  • Other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required

  • High school diploma/ GED preferred but not required
  • Certifications preferred but not required
  • 5+ years of industrial maintenance experience in fast paced manufacturing environment
  • Ability to understand and interpret gauges, tools, and instruments relating to product quality and equipment repair
  • Good working knowledge of electricity and troubleshooting electrical issues
  • Experience in welding with MIG and/or arc welder
  • Forklift experience is required, training will be provided

Preferred

  • Knowledge and experience with PLCs, drives

Full Job Description

About Signode:

With over $2B in revenue, 80+ manufacturing facilities across 6 continents and over 9,000 employees worldwide, Signode is a leading manufacturer of a broad spectrum of transit packaging consumables, tools, software, and equipment that optimize end-of-line packaging operations and protect products in transit. Signode brings this extensive product portfolio together under hundreds of trusted brands to offer complete transit packaging solutions to its customers.

We produce strap, stretch and protective packaging. We also manufacture packaging tools and equipment used to apply the bulk packaging materials. These commercial packaging products are used to pack, bundle, unitize, protect, and secure goods during warehousing and transit. Our company is a pioneer in the industrial packaging sector with a long history of customer-focused innovations in materials, processes and automation technology that have revolutionized the sector.

Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, we are proud to be the Transit Packaging Division of Crown Holdings, Inc. We are excited to go to market as Signode and to share the portfolio of products, services and capabilities that make us the world’s premier end-of-line packaging company.


Benefits:

Signode offers a comprehensive benefits package to full-time employees, which includes health, dental, vision, 401k, paid time off, life insurance, wellness perks, and more. Benefits begin the month following the hire date.


Summary

The primary purpose of the maintenance staff is to ensure production and operations are running safely at the most efficient level achievable, producing the highest possible production quality


Essential Functions

  • Troubleshoots and repairs equipment utilizing prints, schematics.
  • Identifies and recommends corrections on electrical issues through knowledge of drives and PLCs.
  • Maintain inventory of repair equipment and supplies.
  • Perform highly diversified duties to maintain production machines and the facility’s equipment.
  • Ensure machine productivity and quality after repairs, changeovers, and extended down time.
  • Assist production in whatever the needed capacity (within trained knowledge) to ensure that quality and productivity standards and goals are met.
  • Respond Quickly to Safety issues or concerns that may put production employees at risk for injury, to include rectifying immediate dangers with approval of management. This also includes “near miss” situations.
  • Check and inspect assigned equipment during preventative maintenance. Reports findings to supervisor and takes appropriate action
  • Perform basic, simple (as needed) repairs on forklifts to maintain production levels.
  • Maintain building safety and appearance including utilities, ventilation, housekeeping and plumbing including waste and process plumbing.
  • Perform projects towards continuous improvement and standardization work and any other duties assigned by the Maintenance Manager
  • Complete and update maintenance work order tracking system.
  • Other related duties as assigned.


Position Qualifications

Education:

  • Highschool diploma/ Ged preferred but not required
  • Certifications preferred but not required


Experience:

  • 5 + years of industrial maintenance experience in fast paced manufacturing environment
  • Any equivalent of experience and training that demonstrates the ability to perform the key responsibilities of this position
  • Ability to understand and interpret gauges, tools, and instruments relating to product quality and equipment repair
  • Must have a good working knowledge of electricity and troubleshooting electrical issues.
  • Knowledge and experience with PLCs, drives are preferred.
  • Must have experience in welding with MIG and/or arc welder.
  • Forklift experience is required, training will be provided.


Functional Success Drivers: These competencies are what we require for an individual to be successful in this role.

  • Sense of Urgency
  • Safety & Security
  • Experience
  • Organization/ Planning
  • Leading Edge
  • Tenacity


Reasonable Accommodation Statement

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities.



The Company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the Company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the Company may deem appropriate.


Signode Industrial Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.