Lube Technician - (Freeport, TX) - Austin Industrial

Austin Industries, Inc.; Freeport (TX); On-site; USD 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life and disability insurance

401K with matching

ESOP

Job summary

Austin Industrial seeks a Machinery Lubrication Technician Level 1 (MLT Level I) in Freeport, TX. The role performs lubrication, contamination control, inspection and proactive maintenance on lubricated mechanical systems, with field duties and coordination of inventory.

You will read OEM maintenance plans, work unsupervised at times, and contribute to reliability. The company highlights ESOP ownership and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Good oral and written communication skills and good team building skills.
• Capability to work in an unsupervised position effectively.
• Capability to read and interpret technical documents, such as OEM Maintenance plans and Advanced Lubrication Technology instruction and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate inventory and routine ordering of products.
• Stock inventory locations and maintain lubrication supplies.
• Use tools and equipment for routine lubrication tasks.
• Drain and clean reservoirs and modify systems to enable sampling and filtration.
• Change filters and breathers on reservoirs and grease relubrication systems.
• Maintain dispensing equipment and automatic systems and label assets.
• Update scheduling systems and request work orders for maintenance.
• Perform field level oil analysis and interpret results for future maintenance.
• Report discrepancies or conditions requiring approved maintenance actions.

Skills

Oral communication

Written communication

Teamwork

Unsupervised work

Reading tech docs

Job description

Lube Technician - (Freeport, TX) - Austin Industrial

Job Category: Craft

Requisition Number: LUBET034133

• Full-Time
• On-site

Locations

Showing 1 location

Freeport, TX, USA

Description

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

The MLT (Machinery Lubrication Technician Level 1) position is responsible for equipment lubrication, contamination control, inspection and proactive maintenance activities for all lubricated mechanical systems.

A description of the general activities may include:

• Coordination of inventory and routine ordering of products.
• Stocking inventory locations.
• Use of tools and equipment for routine and non-routine lubrication functions.
• Draining and cleaning of reservoirs.
• Mechanical modification of systems as directed to facilitate sampling and filtration, and other proactive improvements.
• Changing filters and breathers on reservoirs
• Grease relubrication with manual and automatic dispensing equipment
• Maintenance of dispensing equipment and automatic systems.
• Labeling and tagging reservoirs, equipment, inventory and delivery containers.
• Printing and fulfilling planned lubrication activities
• Update scheduling systems, including adding notes to system and requesting work orders for maintenance repairs and activities.
• Perform field level oil analysis, including: Crackle, Viscosity, Demulsibility and Blotter Test.
• Schedule, collect, label and mail samples for analysis.Receive and evaluate oil analysis results for future planned maintenance.
• Report in writing any discrepancies or conditions that require corrective, predictive or planned maintenance for production systems.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Requirements:

The MLT Level I position requires the following skills and abilities:

• Good oral and written communication skills and good team building skills.
• Capability to work in an unsupervised position effectively.
• Capability to read and interpret technical documents, such as:
  • OEM Maintenance plans
  • Advanced Lubrication Technology instruction and recommendations

Benefits & Compensation

We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan.We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP)!To learn more about our employee-ownership structure, please go to https://www.austin-ind.com/our-company/100-employee-owned .

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Employees must be able to sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and use hands and fingers to perform assigned duties. Positions may require lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling up to 50 pounds, working at elevations, on uneven surfaces, or in confined spaces. Employees must possess sufficient visual, hearing, communication, and motor skills to safely perform job responsibilities.

Employees must be able to read, comprehend, and follow safety procedures, work instructions, and company policies; exercise sound judgment; solve problems; maintain attention to detail; effectively manage stress; and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.

Work may be performed in industrial and construction environments with exposure to weather conditions, temperature extremes, noise, dust, fumes, moving equipment, vibration, and other site-specific hazards. Employees must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) and meet all customer, site, regulatory, medical, and fitness-for-duty requirements applicable to the position.

Must be able to perform all job duties while maintaining a constant commitment to safety, quality, and productivity expectations.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy.The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

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Required

Valid Driver's License

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