Maintenance 

FOUNDRY MACHINE REPAIR MECHANIC 

Mapleton, IL

Exp 2-5 yrs

Job Description

As a Machine Repair Mechanic at our Mapleton Foundry, you will inspect equipment and plan repairs for service required. You are also responsible for checking blueprints, diagrams, or drawings for repairs or installations when necessary and do lay-out work and fabrication. Also the use of various hand tools and equipment to dismantle, repair, replace and reassemble parts and equipment is required. You will assemble and align gears, bearings, cams, and shafts involving the application of press, sliding and running fits. While operating machinery such as drill presses, lathes, mills, grinders, power saws, and cutting & threading machines. 

Job Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

* Performs maintenance pipefitting on all equipment 

* Changes, sets up, and adjusts equipment as required 

* Lubricates or directs others to lubricate equipment. 

* Uses all common and precision checking equipment, laser equipment, and portable power tools Installs, repairs, and maintains pumps 

* Hydraulic equipment

* Metal cutting and forming equipment,

* Compressors, valves, turbines, steam delivery systems 

* Material handling equipment.

Required Qualifications:

* Successfully pass a 2-hour written exam and

* Successfully pass a 16-hour hands-on mechanical test

* Must be able to weld, cut, solder and braze

* The ability to work near high voltage electricity, molten metal, heavy equipment, various gases, moving machinery, high above the floor and in a congested or confined areas

Desired Qualifications: 

* Strong mechanical background

* Machine shop experience 

* Technical degree/diploma

SCREENING QUESTIONS

The ability to work near high voltage electricity, molten metal, heavy equipment, various gases, moving machinery, high above the floor and in a congested or confined areas

Must be able to weld, cut, solder and braze

Ability to check blueprints, diagrams, or drawings for repairs or installations when necessary and do lay-out work and fabrication

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Direct Staffing Inc