Technician, Maintenance
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About the Role
Avient Corporation in Riyadh seeks a Maintenance Technician to build, repair, and maintain equipment in good operating condition. The role involves troubleshooting mechanical devices, operating shop machinery, and performing preventive maintenance.
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Responsibilities
- Complete maintenance assignments to build, repair and/or maintain all equipment in good operating condition
- Troubleshoot mechanical devices in operation; dismantle and examine devices to remove defective parts
- Set up and operate shop machinery such as lathe, drill press, grinders, band saws, cutting torch, welder
- Install new or repair/modify hydraulic and pneumatic equipment as needed
- Improve reliability and uptime of all equipment with a preventive maintenance mentality
- Operate forklift and hydraulic working platform as needed
- Research supplies, parts and tools needed to complete work orders
- Assist in identifying and maintaining an accurate inventory of parts
- Contribute to upkeep and updating of required paperwork such as records, maintenance logs, documents, manuals, drawings, PM logs
- Follow applicable Safety, Health and Environmental rules and guidelines
- Maintain departmental housekeeping
Requirements
- Multi skilled in various craft disciplines
- Ability to troubleshoot mechanical devices
- Ability to operate shop machinery such as lathe, drill press, grinders, etc.
- Ability to lift and/or move up to 55 pounds
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Job Description
- The Maintenance Technician is responsible for completing maintenance assignments to build, repair and/or maintain all equipment in good operating condition as quickly and accurately as possible.
- The Maintenance Technician is expected to be multi skilled and able to contribute to plant maintenance activities in a variety of craft disciplines.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Completes projects with minimal guidance showing a proactive attitude to minimizing equipment down time and lost production capability.
- Troubleshoots mechanical devices in operation. Dismantles and examines devices to gain access to and remove defective parts. Adjusts, repairs or replaces defective parts.
- Sets up and operates shop machinery such as lathe, drill press, grinders, band saws, cutting torch, welder. etc. Uses hand tools and pneumatic tools to modify or repair parts and equipment.
- Installs new or repairs/modifies hydraulic and pneumatic equipment as needed.
- Improves reliability and uptime of all equipment. Takes a proactive approach to equipment issues with a preventive maintenance mentality.
- Operates forklift and hydraulic working platform as needed.
- Researches supplies, parts and tools needed to complete work orders.
- Assists in identifying and maintaining an accurate inventory of parts.
- Contributes to upkeep and updating of required paperwork such as records, maintenance logs, documents, manuals, drawings, PM logs, etc.
- Supports the vision, mission and guiding principles of the company.
- Follows applicable Safety, Health and Environmental rules and guidelines while performing job duties.
- Maintains departmental housekeeping.
Physical/Environ. Demands
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
- The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; sit; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and use foot/feet to operate machine.
- The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance.
- The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 55 pounds and frequently move more than 250 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Requires the use of safety equipment as dictated by the work area such as safety glasses and shoes, dust mask, hard hat, respirator, face shield, hearing protection, chemical suit, gloves, aprons, etc.
- Work is inside and the typical noise level is loud.
- The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme heat, and risk of electrical shock.
- The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; outside weather conditions; and explosives.
- Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.
- The employee is frequently exposed to vibration.
- The employee is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals.
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