Electromechanical Technician

Electromechanical Technician

Assembly Team | Peoria, IL | Full-Time | First Shift

Pay: $27 – $30 per hour

Reports To: Assembly Team Supervisor

If you want to build the equipment and systems behind life-saving medicine manufacturing around the world, keep reading. You'll find real variety — much of what we make is custom — plus the chance to build a broad skillset, a flexible environment, and a supportive team.

Rheo Engineering builds custom powder handling equipment used to manufacture life-saving medicine, and our Assembly Team turns Engineering's blueprints into finished, working systems. As an Electromechanical Technician I, you're fully trusted with mechanical and hydraulic assembly, growing into pneumatic and electrical work, and occasionally on-site with customers on select projects.

What You’ll Do

Assemble custom products and systems by following blueprints provided by the Engineering team

Perform mechanical, pneumatic, electrical, and hydraulic assembly

Perform installation, testing, and repair of industrial mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, and pneumatic equipment used on Rheo projects

Read and interpret product and project documentation, including safety rules, operator's manuals, maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals

Collaborate with the Engineering and Fabrication teams to ensure accuracy of the final workpiece

Provide design input to Engineering from an assembly/operator perspective

Perform and record routine maintenance on machine tools and equipment

Review all parts for an assembly and confirm accuracy against the general assembly drawing

Provide occasional on-site support for customers during installs, warranty claims, and repairs

Occasionally apply surface finishes using pneumatic polishing tools

Occasionally clean products post-assembly and/or testing

What We’re Looking For

Experience

High School Diploma or GED

Proven work experience assembling or maintaining custom mechanical projects or products from blueprints

Proven experience safely working with a variety of hand tools, power tools, and simple machine tools

Software

Familiarity with Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Familiarity with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software (Epicor Kinetic preferred)

Traits

Superb Communication — you get your ideas, instructions, and points across clearly and naturally

Detail-Orientation — high attention to detail and highly organized

Extreme Ownership — you see a project through from beginning to end, no matter the obstacle

Team Spirit — your presence makes the team better and happier

Self-Starter — you don't wait to be told what to do; you get what you need to get things done

Values Alignment

Initiative: instinct for taking action to improve, solve, and deliver.

Collaboration: proactive communication with your stakeholders.

Competence: ability to do your job well.

Reliability: persistent follow-through on commitments.

Bold Humility: courage to speak, act, and listen without arrogance.

Preferred Qualifications

Associate's degree or certification as a Mechanic, Industrial Electrical Technician, or related technical field

Why Rheo?

Steady work in a stable industry — the equipment you build helps make life-saving medicine, and that work doesn’t dry up

All first shift, with flexible start and end times and the option to frontload your hours

A small shop with low turnover where you’re a name, not a number

Real variety — custom work, not the same part over and over

Benefits

Leading medical insurance — consistently low rates compared to other businesses in the area

Health Savings Account with employer contributions (plan-dependent)

Dental, vision, and life insurance

Short-term and long-term disability

Identity theft insurance

401(k) with 4% employer match

Generous PTO

Paid paternity and maternity leave

Paid cell phone plan with stipend for a new phone every 2 years

Employee referral program

Working Conditions

This is a shop-floor position. You must be able to bend/stoop, climb stairs and ladders, squat, kneel, push/pull, lift up to 50 lbs, and use vibratory and other basic tools. Standard 8-hour workday, first shift. Overtime as requested by your supervisor. Some travel for on-site customer support, up to approximately 10% of the year.

Rheo Engineering is an equal opportunity employer.