Industrial Lube Technician: Heavy Equipment Maintenance

Oldcastle; Coleman (FL); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Ash Grove Cement, a CRH company, is seeking a maintenance technician to perform lubrication, oil changes, and daily plant upkeep at our Coleman, Florida facility.

You will inspect machinery, use diagnostic tools, and troubleshoot issues while following safety and environmental policies. Overtime and on-call duties may be required. Collaboration with reliability engineers and mechanics is expected to ensure uptime and proper reporting.

Qualifications

• 1+ yrs experience operating heavy equipment or related experience preferred.
• Valid Driver's License.
• Work overtime, odd and unscheduled hours as required and share on-call duties.
• Ability to use hand tools (shovels, rakes, pokers, brooms, drills, wrenches, etc).
• Ability to perform tasks that include walking, climbing equipment and ladders, bending, working within confined spaces and occasionally lifting up to 50 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Perform lubrication activities with greases, oils, solid lubricants on running equipment.
• Perform oil changes and flushing procedures on running equipment.
• Fill out all lube routine forms daily, either paper base or electronic.
• Involved in daily plant inspections, cleanup, and routine maintenance.
• Operates and loads equipment for the movement of raw material to the main plant for production.
• Listen for unusual sounds from machines or equipment to detect malfunction and discuss machine operation variations with supervisors or other maintenance workers to diagnose problem or repair machine.
• Visually inspects and tests machinery and equipment.
• Use basic diagnostic and inspection tools such temperature IR pyrometers, vibration handheld meters, timing lamp, pressure gauges.
• Meet with Mechanical Inspector and Reliability Engineer/Manager to give feedback of findings during daily routines.
• Organize and plan maintenance each day.
• Prepare for scheduled maintenance.
• Housekeep oil storage room.
• Dismantles defective machines and equipment and installs new or repaired parts.
• Troubleshoots operational problems.
• Use computerized handheld device to report problems or findings.
• Follow all plant safety policies.
• Follow all plant environmental policies.

Skills

Cement manufacturing knowledge

Mechanical knowledge

Engineering knowledge

Environmental knowledge

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Tools

IR pyrometer

Vibration handheld meters

Timing lamp

Pressure gauges

Hand tools

Job description

Ash Grove Cement, a CRH company, is seeking a maintenance technician to perform lubrication, oil changes, and daily plant upkeep at our Coleman, Florida facility.

You will inspect machinery, use diagnostic tools, and troubleshoot issues while following safety and environmental policies. Overtime and on-call duties may be required. Collaboration with reliability engineers and mechanics is expected to ensure uptime and proper reporting.