MAINTENANCE MECHANIC I

Overview

Building our Future Together. FXI is a leading producer of foam innovation in the Bedding, Furniture, Industrial, Home & Office, Healthcare, and Transportation markets.

We have made it our mission to provide tailored solutions that delight our customers and consumers. With our corporate headquarters, high-tech research and development facility, and multiple manufacturing locations in North America, FXI has built a culture of innovation and achievement that is recognized by customers, suppliers and peers.

Our products include finished goods, sub-assemblies, services, and raw materials for OEMs, fabricators, and retailers. You will find FXI’s foam innovations inside, around, and under yourself in countless applications.

Everywhere foam goes, FXI’s innovations lead the way! Won’t you join us?

Responsibilities

• Uses basic mechanics’ tools; wrenches, ratchets, sockets, hack saw, tape measure, and screw driver
• Performs basic operations of major pieces of plant equipment
• Uses basic mechanical skills to identify and correct minor mechanical issues with equipment
• Performs stick welding and uses cutting torch
• Understands and interprets basic drawings or sketches
• Uses basic electrical troubleshooting skills to identify and correct minor electrical issues with equipment
• Uses voltmeter to perform basic electrical troubleshooting
• Understands the basic principles of hydraulics and pneumatics
• Understands basic lubrication principles
• Understands and operates electric and LPG / Gas forklifts
• Correctly completes work order forms
• Correctly completes inventory forms
• Follow 5S and safety policies and procedures
• Other duties, as assigned

Qualifications

Knowledge, skills , experience :

• A minimum of 1 year of maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment
• Ability to use job-appropriate tools
• Proficiency in investigating, deducing and recommending corrective actions for mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems required.

Education / Certifications :

High School Diploma or equivalent

Qualifications :

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to work independently and perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

• Ability to communicate effectively including effectively presenting information, comprehending and communicating detailed instructions, reading and writing correspondence and memos, and having knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures as required by the position.
• Ability to apply common sense practices to carry out detailed oral or written instruction. Ability to deal with problems involving multiple variables in continuously changing situations.

Physical Demands :

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel;

reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee must regularly lift and / or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and / or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and / or move up to 100 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

This position requires the wearing of Personnel Protective Equipment (PPE) consisting of eye protection while on the production floor as well as hearing protection in designated areas.

Work Environment :

• The environment characteristics describe here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the position.
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and / or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, regularly exposed to noise levels in the work environment which are moderate to loud, and exposed to temperature ranging from moderate to high depending on the time of year and location of the work being done.

Key words

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