Maintenance Technician

1445 Old Dunbar Road West Columbia South Carolina 29172-1932

**_Why Valmont_**

**We're Here to Move the World Forward.**

Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

Join a _Fortune_ 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today. _We are the modern workforce_ . Are you ready to move the world forward? Apply now.

**A Brief Summary of This Position**

This is an individual contributor position responsible for assisting with all functions of the preventive and repair maintenance, electrical, electronic and mechanical work for the Coatings Division to achieve personal and professional growth.

**Essential Functions:**

+ Testing, inspecting, repairing and re-assembling basic plant equipment, components, and systems including but not limited to overhead bridge cranes, hoists, gear boxes, forklifts, straddle trucks, shag trucks, company vehicles, pneumatic and mechanical systems, power transmission components, combustion engines, boiler systems, and electrical and hydraulic systems

+ Understand basic metal fabrication (welding, cutting and brazing)

+ Possess basic blueprint reading

+ Communicate with other maintenance and production team members via e-mail, phone, and face-to-face

+ Operate gauging equipment including tape measures, micrometers, and dial calipers

+ Responsible for utilizing and maintaining all site tools and equipment

+ Understand Lock-Out/Tag-Out procedures

+ Climb and work from ladders, aerial platforms, bridge cranes, and roofs more than 36 feet

+ Possess basic testing and troubleshooting skills

+ Complete record logs including labor, repairs made, equipment, and use of materials on the computer

**Important Details about the Role**

+ This position reports to the General Manager

+ Domestic travel overnight up to 5% annually to assist with maintenance at other plant locations

+ Contribute to general plant clean up and housekeeping

+ Provide occasional assistance in production duties

+ Participates in Safety and LEAN initiatives

+ Must be company trained and authorized to operate powered industrial trucks, aerial platforms and bridge cranes

+ Must be company trained and authorized in arc flash safety, confined space entry, hazardous energy control and fall protection

+ Communicates and interacts with coworkers in a professional manner

+ Must be able to distinguish colors

+ Wear all required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and work in a non-temperature-controlled environment, as well as with exposure to outdoors

+ Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, although most frequent lift is up to 30 pounds

+ Ability to spend 75% of workday standing or walking, 10% bending or kneeling, 10% stooping, and 5% climbing

**Required Qualifications of Every Candidate (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities)**

+ 3-5 years of relevant experience

+ Mechanical aptitude and desire to learn

+ The ability to read and follow written and verbal instructions in English

+ Pay attention to detail and follow work instructions

+ High awareness for safety

+ Work overtime and weekends, as needed

+ Must be a person of passion and integrity who has the drive to excel and deliver exceptional results

**Highly Qualified Candidates Will Also Possess These Qualifications**

+ Actively pursuing an Associate's or Technical degree in Industrial Maintenance or related field

+ Work in adverse conditions: wet, hot, dusty, dirty or cold

+ Six (6) years of industrial maintenance experience

+ Six (6) years of experience basic welding/fabricating metal structures/components

+ ­­Six (6) years of experience with basic troubleshooting skills

**Benefits**

Valmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Wellbeing benefit package to ensure their individual and family's overall wellness needs are met. Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location and can include the following:

+ Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision)

+ 401k retirement plan with company match

+ Paid time off

+ Employer paid life insurance

+ Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave

+ Work Life Support

+ Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year

+ Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services and more

Valmont does not discriminate against any employee or applicant in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

If you have a disability and require any assistance in filling out the application for employment email EEOCompliance@Valmont.com.

2024-09-13

**All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or protected veteran status** . **Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.**

**SKILL**

Educational Background

Requires adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing of whole numbers and fractions to perform calculations and conversions to and from metric and standard measurements. Must possess adequate communication and interpersonal skills to successfully interact with other employees. Must display an aptitude for problem solving and the ability to plan for potential problems or needs.

Job Training Skill Development

Maintenance Technician must demonstrate a minimum acceptable level of equipment specific knowledge within 12 months of on the job experience.

Decision Making

The Maintenance Technician assists with troubleshooting plant equipment and facilities that require considerable independent judgment. Service manuals establish standard procedures for some decision making. Independent judgment is required when the task at hand becomes too involved. Seeks direction from more qualified technician or Supervisor.

**EFFORT**

Physical Effort

The Maintenance Technician spends time climbing, lifting, bending, kneeling, crawling, pulling, stretching, and working in confined spaces and awkward positions, as well as working at heights. Incumbent handles gearboxes on top of machines, changing brakes, motors on cranes, etc. The average weight of objects is 30 pounds. Incumbent spends 75% of his / her workday standing or walking, 10% bending or kneeling, 10% stooping, and 5% climbing.

Mental and Visual Effort

Must be able to work in high stress situations under adverse conditions for long period of time using intense mental and visual concentration. Good hand to eye coordination with a good sense of depth perception at all times. Must be able to distinguish colors. Requires methodical and analytical thought processes to follow complicated diagrams.

Responsibility for Equipment and Process

Responsible for the preventive maintenance and care for hand tools, electrical tools, AC/DC welders, and a computerized maintenance database. Must exhibit considerable care and attention towards equipment and parts. Must follow proper maintenance procedures in order to prevent improper installation of parts. Typical average cost per incident is minor under $1,500.

Responsibility for Material or Product

Must use considerable care and attention to equipment and parts are not lost. Typical average cost per incident is minor under $1,500. This cost could be escalated by improper installation of repair. The likelihood of damage is possible but can be prevented with considerable care and attention.

Responsibility for Safety of Others

Typical injury to others could consist of electrical shock, cuts, bruises, burns, etc. Physical injuries could result from poor installations and repairs of machinery or improper use in handling or lifting equipment. Alert workmanship and caution can prevent injuries, such as broken fingers, arms, legs and / or crushed limbs. Responsible for other personnel assisting on the job.

Each employee is responsible for learning and applying all provided safety training as outlined by the company and department safety representative and / or supervisor. Keeping safety in the forefront in the daily performance of job duties includes personal safety, safety of others in the department and safekeeping of all company resources. As a Maintenance Technician, the incumbent must complete all required safety training.

Actively participates in department safety; demonstrates excellent safety practices and behaviors and conforms to all Valmont safety policies and procedures.

Responsibility for Work of Others

The Maintenance Technician is responsible for only his/her own work, and works individually or as a team member.

**JOB CONDITIONS**

Working Conditions

The Maintenance Technician 1 works in all conditions that exist in the plant. Conditions range from clean shop work exposure to odors, drafts, wet conditions, dirt, grease, dust, and noise. The work environment consists of smoke and irritating particulate impurities, acid fumes from pickling tanks, and large quantities of windblown dust and ash produced as by-product to the galvanizing process. In addition, the nature of the industry results in extreme heat in the summer (typically 10-15 degrees above outdoor temperature), and melting snow off of incoming material results in damp, cold working conditions in the winter. These conditions range from severe to mild and can happen daily in any combination.

Hazards

Potential hazards include falls to the ground due to working at heights or slick working conditions and heat exhaustion or aggravations created by blowing dust and ash. In addition, there are pinch point, struck by, confined space and extreme cold/heat conditions that the incumbent is exposed to. There is also constant exposure to such hazards as burns, cuts, contusions of various degrees and eye injuries make the possibility for incidents high even under the best conditions.

Valmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Well-being benefit package to ensure their individual and family's overall wellness needs are met.

Benefits include*:

+ Medical, dental and vision insurance

+ Paid time off

+ Employer paid life insurance

+ Employer paid short-term and long-term disability

+ Retirement plans

+ Dependent care

+ Employee assistance programs

+ Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, mortgage services, home & auto insurance, health coaching and more.

*Due to the nature of Valmont's Global Business and Union contracts, not all benefits are the same.

Valmont is here to modernize vital infrastructure and increase agricultural productivity, sustainably and reliably. We galvanize steel to last a century with minimal environmental impact. We modernize irrigation to feed a growing population by utilizing the latest technology. We harden the electrical grid to enable the delivery of reliable power to millions of homes around the world. And we help make communities everywhere safer, cleaner and more connected through our smart infrastructure technology.

Valmont serves two primary markets - agriculture and infrastructure - and seven diverse product lines: Utility, Lighting and Transportation, Telecom, Solar, Coatings, Irrigation and Ag Tech. We manufacture products in 85 facilities spread across six continents, and we do business in 100 different countries.

That's what Valmont does. We conserve resources and improve life, finding ways to make innovation and technology beneficial in the real world.

+ That's the value we add.