Maintenance Technician

Description

Built on Experience. Built for Skill. Built for You.

Keel was formed by bringing together three industry leaders combining generations of hands-on expertise in steel fabrication, shipbuilding, aerospace, and defense manufacturing.

That means when you join Keel, you’re joining a team backed by decades of proven craftsmanship and real-world results.

We build ships, defense systems, aerospace components, and heavy steel structures that serve critical missions — and we do it with pride.

Your Mission:

Repairs and maintains machinery and equipment such as engines, motors, pneumatic tools, conveyor systems, and production machines and equipment.

Explore the Depth of the Role:

• •Maintain, clean, lubricate, repair and perform preventive maintenance to production machinery.
• •Cleans up and ensures equipment is ready for production.
• •Troubleshoot electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical systems.
• •Maintains fixtures/equipment to minimize downtime.
• •Diagnose repair issues.
• •Maintains physical structure of fixtures and equipment.
• •Dismantles devices to gain access to and remove defective parts.
• •Repairs or replaces defective parts.
• •Operates cutting torch to cut metal parts.
• •Repairs or replaces gauges, valves, pressure regulators, and related equipment.
• •Maintains facility's utilities/support equipment: air, water, drain, steam, hydraulic, electric, etc.
• •Ensure personal safety and the safety of team members; understand how machines work and how to operate them safely; knowledge of emergency stops; and utilization of personal protective equipment.
• •Maintain clean work environment.
• •Perform routine cleaning of equipment and general housekeeping at and around maintenance shop.
• •Collects and handles solid and hazardous waste generated at the work site and deposits separately in designated containers.
• •All other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

Mission Readiness:

• •High school diploma or GED required.
• •5+ years maintenance technician experience required.
• •Ability to utilize hand-held tools/machinery/instruments, both manual and powered, both precision and non-precision.
• •Perform basic maintenance tasks, such as plumbing, painting, greasing, oiling, grinding, drilling, disassembling and reassemble simple machine parts.
• •Ability to weld and cut with gas torches, troubleshoot machine controls.
• •Ability to follow maintenance procedures and maintain proper documentation, drawings and files.
• •Knowledgeable in hydraulic, electrical and pneumatic controls, materials and components. Ability to operate, set, and regulate/adjust machinery.
• •Ability to troubleshoot machine controls, disassemble and assemble machine parts.
• •Ability to install conduit, pipe, regulators, and hoses
• •Knowledgeable in PLC and computer controls, relay ladder logic, and electronic controls preferred.

Travel Requirements:

Between facilities as needed.

Physical Requirements:

• •May be required to stand, walk, sit, reach/pull/push with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop or kneel regularly.
• •May lift or carry 50lbs. Weights exceeding 50lbs will require mechanical means to maneuver.

Become a part of our Builders and you too can...

• •Uphold Safety and Quality Standards
• •Embody Team Spirit
• •Relentless Customer Focus
• •Convey Integrity, Trust, and Professionalism
• •Execute with Excellence and Velocity

What Keel will build for you:

• •Comprehensive Benefit Package
• •Competitive Pay
• •401(k) Match
• •HSA/FSA
• •Paid Holidays
• •Paid Time Off
• •Internal Referral Bonus Opportunities
• •Shift Differentials
• •Overtime Potential
• •Paid on the Job Training
• •Certification Sponsorship Opportunities
• •Committed to Individual Career Growth
• •We Do Fun Things, Plus More!

Need Assistance?

If you require a reasonable accommodation at any stage of the employment process, please email [email protected] with details about your request and your contact information. Accommodation requests are reviewed individually on a case-by-case basis. Please note that this email address is monitored only for inquiries related to reasonable accommodation requests.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans

What we build, builds us.