Your role

As a member of the Maintenance Engineer team you will play a key role in providing technical and solving support by maintaining and repairing automated production equipment. You will be a key member of team that reduces equipment downtime, maintains all production molds, and ensure production schedules are met.  All of our maintenance engineer technicians are play a critical role in the plant by performing preventative and predictive maintenance to ensure equipment availability. 

Your team

In Mountain Home, our Maintenance Engineer Technicians are driven by challenge and the opportunity to see and do something new. We are always ready to tackle a project and work hard to solve problems. Committed to those around us, we rely on team members and trust them to deliver on the tasks at hand demonstrating the technical expertise that they have.

The manufacturing environment that our Manufacturing Technicians collaborate in is a 24/7 operation, but we find ways to balance work and life through good communication and trust with others. There are a lot of industries that we could be working in but Vantive’s mission to save and sustain lives is inspiring and motivating to us. We value opportunities to lead or mentor others but also enjoy moving laterally to learn new things and advance our own domain expertise. This team specifically focuses on maintaining equipment and reliability in our injection molding department.

To do our work well requires the efforts of many individuals who all bring their technical expertise and experience problem solving in a collaborative way.  We provide opportunities for you to continue to learn through various trainings, conferences, certifications, and support for advanced degrees.

What you'll be doing

• Performs maintenance on automated production machinery to reduce equipment downtime and meet production schedules.

• Performs preventive and predictive maintenance as required to ensure equipment availability.

• Focus on process and equipment improvement and innovation.

• Solid grasp of regulatory and documentation procedures for initiating and fully implementing new manufacturing processes and equipment, or modification to those already in use with minimum supervision.

• Works closely with production, quality, engineering, drafting, purchasing and suppliers to provide support for plant operations and capital projects.

• Investigate root cause technical issues and work alone or in a team to mitigate the issues.

• Seek out opportunities for improvement for the company, the plant, co-workers, and his/herself. Actively engages and empowers others while continuing to improve their own skills. While having a broad technical knowledge, it’s not unusual for a MMT to have specialized skills.

• Lead contractors with little engineering support on projects.

• Train new Maintenance Technicians in all aspects of their job. They will also help develop them in project management skills.

• Self-educate and participate in implementing innovative maintenance/manufacturing practices.

• Drives innovation and develop sophisticated solutions for engineering design challenges.

• Perform engineering functions regularly to support plant goals.

• ·Position reports to a Maintenance Supervisor.

• · Partner with engineering to develop solutions for new equipment/processes.

• Specify/develop control architecture for new equipment

• Design/layout control solutions specific to each project need

• Apply new technology to drive innovation.

• Direct support personnel/contractors in support of project

• Works in a safe manner and is trained in all appropriate plant safety programs.

• Performs equipment relocations, crating or uncrating of parts, mechanical adjustments and alignments, identifying and ordering of spare parts, documenting all work, clean-up before leaving job, attending relevant training and meetings.

• Participates in projects and upgrades.

• Understanding of technical drawings and schematics

• Lead a basic project budget

• Work with suppliers to resolve technical issues

• Lead a technical team to implement a new process

• Electrical: Trouble shoots repairs and works with Robots

• Electrical: Solve, modify, or write new software using programmable logic controllers (PLC) systems (Siemens, Allen Bradley, etc)

• Electrical: Implement new PLC controllers and software to improve reliability, quality, and throughput

• Electrical: Component level repair of obsolete control components

• Electrical: Tackle/repair vision systems, photoeye sensors, limit switches, proximity switches, temperature controllers, variable speed drives, motors, servos, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, ultrasonic and RF plastic welders, leak detection systems, and electrical systems up to 480V, 3phase

• Machine shop personnel: Knowledge of machining techniques/processes including manual milling, turning, grinding, welding, CNC machine setup, programming, and operation. Solid understanding of all Machine Shop equipment.

• Machinists: CNC machine setup, programming, and operation

• Mold shop personnel: Knowledge of mold repair, teardown, assembly, and cleaning. Solid understanding of all Mold Shop equipment and mold maintenance methods. Able to diagnose root cause of molding defects with sample molded parts and repair defects.

• Mold shop personnel: Systematic molder graduate, Molded part design graduate, Master molder 1 graduate

• Forklift maintenance personnel: Knowledge of safe standard methodologies for PIT operation and repair. Understanding of battery usage and handling procedures. Sophisticated understanding of Raymold and Crown repair methods.

• Mechanical: Fabrication experience (welding, basic machine shop activities)

• Mechanical: Begin to develop multi-functional expertise (electrical/controls skills)

What you'll bring

• Minimum High School Diploma or GED equivalent required

• Technical Associates degree (2 year) preferred

• Minimum 9 years of applicable experience/proven skill required, or 3 years as a Principal Maintenance Technician

• Must have experience with basic hand too

• Ability to read electrical and pneumatic diagrams, knowledge of hydraulics preferred

• Strong communication skills

• Work optimally under stressful conditions

• Work with limited supervision

• Duties may require overtime work, including nights and weekends.

• ble to lift 50 lbs, climb ladders, to stand and work at two-hour minimum intervals. Work in tight spaces

• Position requires standing and walking for extended periods of time.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Vantive, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $76,000 - $95,000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors, all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based on upon location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors. For questions about this, our pay philosophy, and available benefits, please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply and are selected for an interview.