Maintenance Tech III

Venture Metals +; Wills Point (TX); On-site; USD 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Venture Metals+ is seeking an experienced maintenance technician to repair and maintain recycling facility equipment, including heavy mobile equipment, conveyors, balers, and shredders, ensuring minimal downtime through preventive maintenance.

The role requires troubleshooting hydraulics, electronics, mechanical systems, and performing repair work, with duties ranging from parts identification to documenting work orders and upholding safety standards in a non-climate-controlled production

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of verifiable industrial maintenance and repair experience on heavy equipment.
• Ability to read safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions.
• Valid State Driver’s License.

Responsibilities

• Repair and maintain recycling facility equipment, including heavy machinery and conveyors.
• Install new equipment and perform preventive maintenance.
• Troubleshoot hydraulics, electronics, and mechanical systems.
• Complete work orders with detailed repair notes and source parts as needed.
• Observe safety requirements and mentor others in safe practices.

Skills

Industrial troubleshooting

Heavy equipment repair

Team collaboration

Integrity and ethics

Reading technical documents

Tools

Basic hand tools

Job description

Responsibilities

• This position consists of repairing and maintaining all recycling facility equipment (this includes heavy mobile equipment, conveyors, ballers, shredders, etc.), installing new equipment, and performing preventive maintenance tasks.
• Maintain, troubleshoot, and repair heavy equipment and industrial recycling equipment to minimize downtime and make improvements.
• Responsible for maintaining the Sennebogen and caterpillar machine handlers.
• Perform repair work on systems including hydraulics, electronic/electrical systems, mechanical repairs, basic fabrication, preventive maintenance, and other tasks as assigned.
• Complete work orders and keep detailed notes of repairs performed.
• Identify necessary parts for repairs.
• Use computers/internet to research and source part/equipment replacements.
• Work in multiple positions, including but not limited to kneeling, bending, crouching, elevated in lifts, for extended durations.
• Observe all safety requirements and lead by example in working safely.
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback for coaching.
• Ability to work various shifts if needed.
• Other duties as assigned or directed by maintenance and operations management team.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 – 5 years of verifiable experience related to industrial troubleshooting, maintenance and repair experience on heavy equipment or in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment.
• Balances team and individual responsibilities. Able to build consensus.
• Works with integrity and ethically; Upholds organizational values.
• Must have your own basic hand tools.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Valid State Driver’s License.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to stand; climb; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Ability to work in a non-climate-controlled production facility.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 15 - 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Venture Metals+ provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regards to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.