Maintenance Technician II

Alkegen; Virginia, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Alkegen is seeking a Maintenance Technician to repair, maintain, and install equipment in a manufacturing plant. You will handle machine breakdowns, perform preventive maintenance, and work with cross-functional teams to ensure uptime.

A vocational degree or rich maintenance experience is required, with forklift and NEC electrical certifications preferred. The role requires ability to read blueprints, operate shop tools, and adapt to varying shift lengths from 8 to 12 hours.

Qualifications

• Education: Vocational Technical Degree in plant maintenance or 5+ years experience in plant maintenance.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registration: Forklift, NEC Electrical.
• Experience with hydraulics, electrical wiring (110/220/480), water pumps, industrial burners, TIG/STICK/MIG welding, and industrial air compressors.
• Carpentry skills; knowledge of gas applications; qualified electrician is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Works on work order requests from production floor and determines priority.
• Follows all safety and good manufacturing processes.
• Communicate equipment breakdowns and estimated time to complete repairs to production and QA.
• Dismantles devices to access parts and replaces defective components.
• Lubricates and cleans parts and machinery; tests and adjusts equipment to specs.
• Operates lathe, drill press, grinder, saws to make/repair parts.
• Initiates purchase orders for parts and machines; repairs electrical equipment including PC controllers.

Education

Vocational Technical Degree in plant maintenance

Tools

Forklift

NEC Electrical

Job description

Job Requirements

Why work for us? Alkegen brings together two of the world’s leading specialty materials companies to create one new, innovation-driven leader focused on battery technologies, filtration media, and specialty insulation and sealing materials. Through global reach and breakthrough inventions, we’re delivering products that enable the world to breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before. With over 60 manufacturing facilities with a global workforce of over 9,000 of the industry’s most experienced talent, including insulation and filtration experts, Alkegen is uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways. Alkegen offers a range of dynamic career opportunities with a globe-spanning reach. From production operators to engineers, technicians to specialists, sales to leadership, we’re always looking for top talent ready to bring their best. Come grow with us!

Job Requirements: Engage in repair, maintenance and installation of machines, tools, equipment and in maintenance of buildings, grounds and utility systems of a manufacturing plant or other establishment by performing the following duties personally or through other subordinates.

Responsibilities

• Works on work order requests from production floor and determines priority
• Follows all safety and good manufacturing processes
• Communicate to production and quality assurance equipment break downs and estimated time needed to complete repairs.
• Communicate updates to incoming maintenance personnel on status of break downs, repairs and troubleshooting done during the previous shift.
• Observes and listens to sounds of mechanical devices in operation to locate any signs of trouble.
• Dismantles devices to gain access to and remove defective parts.
• Repairs or replaces effective parts.
• Installs special functional and structural parts in devices.
• Lubricates and cleans parts, equipment and machinery.
• Tests and adjusts equipment to meet performance specifications.
• Set up and operate lathe, drill press, grinder, saws and other metal working tools to make and repair parts.
• Initiates purchase order for parts and machines.
• Repairs electrical equipment, including PC controllers.
• Maintains a flexible schedule to accommodate variable shifts from 8 - 12 hrs. depending on maintenance workload.
• Available for on - call status.
• Participates and trains with the Safety Team.
• Performs other similar or related duties as requested or assigned.

Qualifications / Experience

• Education: Vocational Technical Degree in plant maintenance minimum or 5+ years minimum experience in plant maintenance
• Certificates, Licenses, Registration: Forklift, NEC Electrical
• Have experience with the following: Hydraulics electrical wiring (110, 220, 480) water pumps industrial burners tig welding, stick welding, and mig welding industrial air compressors carpentry skills knowledge of gas applications. Qualified electrician is beneficial

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is regularly required to walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit, taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and or move up to10 lbs. frequently lift and or move up to 25 lbs. and occasionally lift and or move up to 70lbs. The employee must regularly be required to work at heights. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The employee must also be able to work 8 hr. shifts regularly with occasional extended shifts not to exceed 12 hrs.

Mental Activities

While performing duties of this job the employee will frequently engage in teamwork. The employee will occasionally be required to use interpersonal and customer service skills. The employee will occasionally need to speak and write English.

At Alkegen, we strive every day to help people - ALL PEOPLE - breathe easier, live greener and go further than ever before.

We believe that diversity and inclusion is central to this mission and to our impact.

Our diverse and inclusive culture drives our growth & innovation, and we nurture it by actively embracing our differences and using our varied perspectives to solve the complex challenges facing our changing and diverse world.

Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, nation of origin, religion, color, gender identity and expression, age, disability, education, opinions, culture, languages spoken, veteran’s status, or any other protected class.

Alkegen is a specialty materials leader serving mission-critical systems that the world is focused on for the future, including: battery technologies, electric vehicles, filtration media, and specialty insulation materials that enable customers to reduce fossil fuel consumption, save energy, and live greener.

We help people breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before.

Our experience speaks for itself. We are a vertically integrated manufacturer with the global reach and talent to solve your most demanding applications. With 60 manufacturing facilities and 9,000+ highly skilled employees located around the world, we can solve any challenge. Dedicated to sustainability and human health, we are uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways.