Maintenance Mechanic

MLC; Missouri; On-site; USD 21,025,620 - 29,945,580; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth & innovation

Safety & sustainability

Great compensation

Career development

Be yourself at work

Job summary

Mississippi Lime Company in Missouri is seeking a Maintenance Mechanic to service heavy industrial equipment, including kilns, mills, elevators, pumps, and conveyors. You will diagnose failures, perform repairs, and document maintenance tasks to keep operations safe and productive.

Join a growing global lime producer with a strong safety culture, competitive pay, and opportunities to develop your skills and advance within the company.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Must successfully demonstrate maintenance and practical skills as determined by written and hands‑on testing, including welding and rigging.
• Two years industrial maintenance experience.
• Basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills.

Responsibilities

• Safely and efficiently perform preventative maintenance and equipment repairs, including mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, welding, and other equipment.
• Identify equipment operational problems and causes of breakdowns and make repairs to same.
• Perform and document workplace and mobile equipment inspections.
• Train and utilize a computer and related software for creating work requests, entering time to work orders, looking up spare parts and inventory.
• General knowledge and application of plant safety rules with emphasis on lockout procedures, risk awareness, moving conveyors, confined space procedures, and use of PPE.

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Two years industrial maintenance experience

Basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills

Tools

Welding

Rigging

Job description

Job Title: Maintenance Mechanic

Pay: $35.62/hour

• Highly collaborative work environment focused on growth and innovation
• Safety and sustainability are top priorities
• Excellent compensation, benefits, generous perks; focused on employee wellbeing
• Great development and advancement opportunities
• Bring your real self to work, come grow with us!

Why consider a career at MLC?

• Highly collaborative work environment focused on growth and innovation
• Safety and sustainability are top priorities
• Excellent compensation, benefits, generous perks; focused on employee wellbeing
• Great development and advancement opportunities
• Bring your real self to work, come grow with us!

Mississippi Lime operates the largest lime facility in the Americas and mines some of the purest limestone reserves in the world... and we just went global! The company is committed to development and employee satisfaction. Join our outstanding team!

About The Job

Our Maintenance Mechanics repair rotary kilns, grinding mills, large elevators, pumps, crushers, industrial conveyor belts and other heavy industrial equipment to support the plants and underground mine. The maintenance mechanics assess equipment failure, determine causes, and make necessary repairs.

• Safely and efficiently perform preventative maintenance and equipment repairs, including mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, welding, and other equipment.
• Identify equipment operational problems and causes of breakdowns and make repairs to same.
• Perform and document workplace and mobile equipment inspections.
• Train and utilize a computer and related software for creating work requests, entering time to work orders, looking up spare parts and inventory.
• General knowledge and application of plant safety rules with emphasis on lockout procedures, risk awareness, moving conveyors, confined space procedures, and use of PPE.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Must successfully demonstrate maintenance and practical skills as determined by written and hands‑on testing, including welding and rigging
• Two years industrial maintenance experience
• Basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical degree, certification or equivalent

The Fine Print

Benefits and perquisites may vary based on the nature and location of each job.

Mississippi Lime Company (“MLC”), headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., is a leading global supplier of high-calamium lime products and technical solutions. These offerings bring essential performance and value to a broad range of market applications, including metals, construction, chemical synthesis, water and emissions treatment, glass, textiles, plastics, rubber, agriculture, foods and beverages. With over a century in business, MLC has built a reputation on the quality of its products and services, as well as an unwavering commitment to safety, sustainability and service. The company’s expanding global footprint includes a diversified, reliable network of production and distribution facilities in the U.S., as well as in the UK through our Singleton Birch business.