Maintenance 3

Covia; Marston; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent Healthcare Benefits

401K with company matching

Paid Time Off + Holidays

Disability plans and Life / AD&D

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Covia is seeking a Maintenance Mechanic 3 at its Marston, NC location to ensure safe, reliable plant operation. The role covers multiple maintenance disciplines, including conveyors, pumps, and welding, with a strong emphasis on safety and teamwork.

The successful candidate will read schematics, perform preventative maintenance, and collaborate with a safety-driven team to meet production targets. A high school diploma or GED and English literacy are required; prior mining or heavy equipment

Qualifications

• Reads and understands parts schematics and blueprints for maintenance fabrication and parts replacement.
• Ability to operate heavy equipment adequately.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety with prior experience identifying and managing risks.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe and productive operation of the plant; perform pre-job safety discussions and risk assessments.
• Perform preventative maintenance on belts, bearings, motors, pumps, valves, and other equipment.
• Repair and replace components on drive mechanisms, pumps, and conveyors; align shafts and drive elements.
• Diagnose mechanical failures, troubleshoot equipment, and implement corrective actions.
• Welding and fabrication using appropriate rod, cutting torch, and measuring tools.
• Maintain housekeeping and safety practices; participate in team meetings and continuous improvement.
• Operate equipment as required and use proper rigging and lifting practices.

Skills

Read schematics/blueprints

Operate heavy equipment

Safety consciousness

Welding

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Covia responsibly provides minerals solutions for a better tomorrow. As a leading provider of diversified minerals, our products support a variety of industrial markets, including glass, ceramics, coatings, metals, foundry, polymers, construction, water filtration, and sports and recreation. Long-standing relationships with a broad customer base enable Covia’s market-inspired approach to innovation to enhance solutions and customer benefits. Underpinning these strengths is an unwavering commitment to safety and to sustainable development, further enhancing the value that Covia delivers to all its stakeholders.

Covia is looking for a dynamic Maintenance Mechanic 3 who will have a positive impact on our team at our Marston, NC location. The Maintenance Mechanic 3 is accountable to ensure the safe and productive operation of the plant and must possess aptitude for multiple maintenance disciplines and be proficient in the operation of equipment associated with all functional areas within the plant.

The successful candidate will have the following Key Accountabilities:

• Safety: Perform each and every job in a safe and timely manner. A pre-job safety discussion is mandated before any major maintenance task is undertaken. During these pre-job discussions, all the steps of the procedure will be outlined to every person involved along with any safety concerns. This is to minimize any unanticipated problems during the task. Conduct Last Minute Risk Assessment prior to beginning a task.
• Preventative Maintenance: Ability to perform all preventative maintenance as needed in the plant to include familiarization with oils and greases (arbors, bearings, reducers, motors) replacement and disposal, pinch valve boots, change/repack glands on pumps, plumbing, patching, and v-belt changing;
• Conveyors: Ability to work on all aspects of belt conveyors, bucket elevators and screw conveyors to include bearings, pulleys, belt splicing, and rollers.
• Drive Mechanisms: Ability to work on and replace sheaves and pulleys, chain and sprockets, reducers, motors, motor bearings, shafts, couplings, arbors (pump, scrubber, conditioner), etc. Able to align motor shafts, couplings, or shafts.
• Pumps and Blowers: Ability to replace all wear surfaces in all type pumps and blowers to include liners, impellers, fans, wear sleeves, shafts, and bearings.
• Troubleshooting: Ability to diagnose mechanical or equipment failure to include burnt up motor, blown fuse, seized bearing, excessive wear, or any other mechanical failure.
• Welding: Ability to choose the proper rod and weld in multiple positions on different types of metal and varying thickness. Ability to work from blueprints and fabricate items as needed. Be very adept at using a cutting torch. Includes the use of dial indicators, venires, calipers, micrometers and TPM equipment.
• Housekeeping and safety, and other informational meetings, including related activities (Natural work team, and WHC).
• Work productively and ability to arrange priorities.
• Understand the plant's basic flow sheet as well as the operation and purpose of each type of equipment.
• Operate the Bobcat, loaders and/or crane properly and safely.
• Selecting the proper lifting equipment and utilize the proper rigging hand signals.
• Familiar with the care and proper safe use, nomenclature and selection of tools and materials used in maintenance.
• Filing, reaming, tapping, drilling, pipe fitting and other benchwork activities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

The successful candidate will have the following Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Literacy in English, both verbally and written.
• Read and understand parts schematic and blueprints for maintenance fabrication and ordering/replacement of parts.
• Previous experience within mining operations, preference given to sand mining
• Prior exposure to an understanding of operational equipment
• Demonstrated ability to operate heavy equipment adequately
• Demonstrated commitment to safety with previous experience in identifying and managing risks
• Demonstrated experience contributing within a team of professionals to deliver set targets.

Commitment to Our Culture

Our core values - Safety, Team, Customers, Growth, and Courage—guide our work every day and will help us achieve our vision: Covia is the leading minerals solutions provider, and through the passion and commitment of our people, we enable customer success—ensuring a sustainable future for our company.

All Covia Team Members are expected to:

• Live the Life-Saving Rules
• Build high-performing work teams
• Focus on customers
• Demonstrate a growth mindset
• Do the right thing, always

At Covia, we strive for and support a diverse workforce as we firmly believe this lays the foundation of our success. Our compelling culture supports inclusion, individuality and respect within the workplace. We are committed to providing employment opportunities to the most qualified candidate based on work-related factors and without regard to non-work-related factors including race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or veteran status.

The organization offers competitive salaries, advancement opportunities, and a full range of benefits.

• Excellent Healthcare Benefits – medical, vision, dental
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Time Off + Paid Holidays
• Disability plans and Life / AD&D
• Employee Assistance Program

An Equal Opportunity Employer

IND2

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