Maintenance Technician- General Industrial

AKER by MAAX

AMERICAN BATH GROUP

Maintenance Technician - General / Industrial

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position Summary

A hands-on production-support technician responsible for keeping manufacturing equipment safe, available, and reliable through preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, adjustment, installation, and documented return-to-service activities.

The role is expected to work independently within documented qualifications. The technician does not automatically own engineering design, production supervision, quality disposition, or unrestricted electrical/controls work.

• Reports to site maintenance leadership.
• Works across assigned production areas and may support planned shutdowns or urgent breakdowns.
• No direct reports or formal personnel authority.

Position Purpose

Support safe, reliable manufacturing by preventing avoidable failures, restoring equipment after breakdowns, correcting equipment conditions that create safety or quality risk, and maintaining accurate records that help the plant improve reliability over time.

• Reduce unplanned equipment downtime without bypassing safeguards or approved repair practices.
• Complete preventive and corrective work to an agreed standard rather than relying on temporary fixes as the normal method.
• Escalate defects, recurring failures, parts constraints, and work outside qualification.

Manufacturing Process Context

At the AKER by MAAX Martinsburg bathware manufacturing operation, this role supports equipment used to form, move, spray, trim, finish, assemble, inspect, package, and ship product, together with the mechanical and utility systems that enable those processes.

Maintenance interacts with Production when equipment becomes unstable, with Quality when equipment condition may affect product, with EHS when work involves hazardous energy or permits, and with Engineering/OEMs when failures exceed normal maintenance scope.

• Coordinate with Production on operator-care tasks such as cleaning, lubrication, and simple adjustment when those responsibilities are assigned to Production.
• Coordinate mold care, major mold restoration, and tooling fabrication with the appropriate specialized resources.
• The primary focus of this role is production-equipment reliability rather than routine grounds or building upkeep.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Receive, assess, and execute preventive, corrective, breakdown, project, safety, and shutdown work through the plant’s approved work-order or prioritization process.
• Inspect machinery for wear, loose or damaged components, lubrication condition, leaks, abnormal heat/noise/vibration, alignment, guarding, sensors, wiring, and other signs of deterioration within qualification.
• Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic failures using schematics, manuals, measurements, test instruments, and safe diagnostic methods.
• Repair or replace bearings, belts, chains, sprockets, seals, hoses, cylinders, valves, pumps, motors, gearboxes, sensors, switches, relays, wiring, and related components as applicable to the site.
• Install, align, adjust, lubricate, calibrate, and test equipment or components within authorization.
• Support PLC/HMI/VFD/robotic troubleshooting only to the depth authorized by the plant; escalate software, programming, or engineering changes outside role authority.
• Verify guards, interlocks, emergency stops, covers, fasteners, and affected safety devices are restored before release to service.
• Record labor, parts, failure mode, cause, corrective action, follow-up work, and machine status in the CMMS or approved record system.
• Identify repeat failures and recommend practical PM, spare-parts, design, operating, or training improvements through the plant change-control process.
• Support equipment installation, commissioning, shutdown work, vendor activity, and maintenance housekeeping as assigned.

Typical Work Sequence

• Review shift handoff, open breakdowns, production priorities, safety issues, PM due list, parts status, and planned work.
• Perform required pre-use checks on tools, test equipment, lifts, hoists, or powered equipment before use.
• Complete scheduled PMs and corrective work when equipment access is available.
• Respond to breakdown calls; establish a safe condition, confirm symptoms, diagnose the failed system, repair or contain the issue, and test the machine before release.
• Document work immediately enough to preserve an accurate history; create follow-up work orders for deferred defects.
• Communicate status and risk during shift handoff, including temporary repairs, parts needed, repeat problems, equipment held out of service, and upcoming PM/shutdown needs.

Tools, Equipment, Machinery, and Materials

Tools and assets vary by assigned production area and are used in accordance with site qualification and authorization requirements.

• Hand tools, torque tools, pullers, presses, bearing tools, drills, grinders, saws, and approved fabrication tools.
• Multimeters and other electrical test instruments used only within electrical qualification.
• Alignment, measurement, vibration, temperature, pressure, or diagnostic tools when used in the assigned area.
• Ladders, mobile platforms, hoists, rigging, forklifts, aerial lifts, or carts with required authorization.
• Production assets may include motors, drives, conveyors, pumps, fans, compressors, valves, cylinders, sensors, controls, and machine-specific systems.
• Lubricants, fasteners, seals, hoses, electrical components, spare parts, cleaning materials, and other MRO consumables.

Production and Efficiency Expectations

• Prioritize work based on safety, production impact, equipment criticality, recurrence, and approved management priorities.
• Complete PMs within the planned window and document exceptions rather than closing incomplete work as complete.
• Restore equipment correctly and verify function before release; do not trade safe repair quality for speed.
• Support reduction of repeat downtime, emergency work, PM backlog, and avoidable parts consumption.
• Protect production schedule and throughput by communicating realistic repair status and alternatives when a full repair cannot be completed immediately.
• Performance measures may include response time, PM compliance, downtime, MTTR, repeat failures, backlog, and attendance.

Quality Responsibilities

• Recognize when equipment condition can affect product dimensions, surface quality, fit, cure, process parameters, contamination, or traceability and involve Production/Quality before restart.
• Restore machine settings and components to approved specifications; do not make undocumented process or design changes.
• Protect calibrated devices, sensors, fixtures, and settings from accidental alteration during maintenance.
• Document equipment changes and parts substitutions through the required approval process.
• Support root-cause investigation when equipment condition contributes to scrap, rework, or quality escapes.

Safety Responsibilities

• Follow lockout/tagout and hazardous-energy control requirements for the exact equipment and task.
• Perform electrical work only within documented training, qualification, PPE, approach-boundary, and authorization requirements.
• Maintain guards, interlocks, emergency stops, covers, and machine-safety devices; never bypass a safeguard to maintain production.
• Use hot-work permits, fire watch, ventilation, gas-cylinder controls, and spark containment when welding/cutting is authorized.
• Follow confined-space, fall-protection, rigging, powered-industrial-truck, aerial-lift, line-breaking, chemical, and respiratory requirements when assigned and qualified.
• Stop and escalate work when the energy state, equipment condition, access, parts, tools, or qualification cannot support a safe repair.

Physical Requirements

This work requires standing and walking on a manufacturing floor; climbing, kneeling, crouching, reaching, gripping, pushing/pulling, and working in varied positions around machinery.

• May require ladder or platform access, work near floor level, overhead work, and access into restricted machine areas after energy control.
• Handle parts, motors, tools, guards, hoses, and components using appropriate lifting techniques and mechanical-assist methods when required.
• Requires visual acuity and manual dexterity appropriate for inspection, wiring, measurement, fastening, and troubleshooting.

Work Environment and Environmental Conditions

• Active manufacturing environment with moving equipment, vehicle/pedestrian traffic, machine noise, variable temperature, dust, fumes, oils, lubricants, water, and process-specific chemicals depending on the plant.
• Maintenance may work inside guarded areas only after proper energy control, around elevated equipment, near hot surfaces, and in areas with reduced access.
• Shutdown and emergency work may occur outside the normal production rhythm or standard shift.

Required Personal Protective Equipment

• Baseline PPE includes safety glasses and safety-toe footwear as required by the current site PPE matrix and task hazard assessment.
• Task-specific protection may include hearing protection, face shield, cut/impact/chemical-resistant gloves, sleeves, arc-rated clothing, voltage-rated gloves, welding PPE, fall protection, respiratory protection, or other equipment only when required by the hazard.
• Use respiratory, electrical, welding, and other task-specific PPE in accordance with the site PPE matrix, hazard assessment, and applicable written programs.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and repair industrial mechanical systems and the site’s core equipment within qualification.
• Working knowledge of preventive maintenance, lubrication, fasteners, bearings, drives, power transmission, pneumatics, hydraulics, and industrial safety fundamentals appropriate to the asset base.
• Ability to read applicable manuals, drawings, electrical diagrams, pneumatic/hydraulic schematics, work orders, and part information.
• Ability to use measurement and test equipment correctly and interpret the result rather than replacing parts by trial and error.
• Ability to document work accurately in a CMMS or approved maintenance system.
• Ability to communicate machine condition, repair status, risk, and follow-up needs clearly to production and maintenance leadership.

Preferred Experience

• Prior industrial manufacturing maintenance in a multi-shift or uptime-sensitive operation.
• Experience troubleshooting a mixed asset base involving mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems.
• Exposure to PLC/HMI/VFD/robotics, predictive maintenance, alignment, vibration, or thermal diagnostics when used in the assigned area.
• Experience using CMMS history, failure codes, spare-parts data, and repeat-downtime information to improve reliability.
• Trade or technical training relevant to the plant's equipment.

Key Working Relationships

• Production operators and supervisors - equipment symptoms, access, restart conditions, temporary operating limits, and handoff.
• Maintenance lead/supervisor/manager - work priority, escalation, parts, staffing, shutdown planning, recurring failures, and qualification limits.
• Engineering - equipment modifications, technical standards, controls/software changes, capital installation, commissioning, and root cause.
• Quality - equipment-related defects, hold/release interface, calibrated systems, and verification after repairs that could affect product.
• EHS/Safety - hazardous energy, permits, electrical safety, hot work, confined space, fall protection, chemical exposure, and incident response.
• Stores/Purchasing/Vendors/OEMs - parts identification, lead times, technical support, contractor work, and warranty/service activity.

Training and Qualification Requirements

• Site orientation, hazard communication, emergency response, PPE, machine safety, and incident reporting.
• Equipment-specific LOTO and verification of zero-energy state before independent servicing.
• Electrical safety and task qualification based on the plant’s actual electrical scope.
• CMMS, work-order quality, failure coding, parts usage, and maintenance documentation standards.
• Equipment-family qualification using train-demonstrate-observe-signoff evidence.
• Hot work, forklifts, aerial lifts, hoists/rigging, fall protection, confined space, respiratory protection, or other specialty training only where assigned.
• Level progression is based on sustained demonstrated scope and complexity rather than tenure alone.

Pay: $21.62 - $35.72 per hour

Expected hours: 40.0 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Experience:

• Manufacturing maintenance: 1 year (Required)
• Mechanical troubleshooting: 1 year (Required)
• Electrical troubleshooting: 1 year (Required)

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Required)
• Night Shift (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Martinsburg, WV 25404 (Required)

Work Location: In person