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Job Summary: As an Automated Systems Industrial Maintenance Partner, you'll maintain H-E-B facilities and systems in a professional manner to ensure safety, efficiency, and reliability. You'll support our mission to be a world class maintenance management organization using the latest in technology, processes, and procedures.
Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions:

Maintenance / Troubleshooting / Repair & Replacement:
Buildings & Grounds:

• Performs basic building repairs to dock doors, walls, roof leaks, and floor damage
• Installs / repairs water supply lines using glued plastic, compression fittings, soldered copper tubing, or threaded pipe
• Troubleshoots / repairs traffic gates, fencing, turnstiles, etc.
• Troubleshoots / repairs / replaces plumbing issues (toilet fixtures, water coolers, water supplies, sewer lines)
• Performs skill-level appropriate preventive maintenance (PM) tasks on buildings and grounds equipment
• Assists other technicians to troubleshoot / repair / replace building and grounds equipment or systems

Mechanical:

• Uses appropriate tools, materials, and methods to perform mechanical tasks safely and efficiently
• Repairs / replaces gaskets, bearings, drive belts, couplings, etc. on support machinery (air compressors, compactors, pumps, etc.)
• Repairs conveyors; replaces belts, gear boxes, couplings, drive chains or belts, bearings, shafts, sheaves, sprockets, etc.
• Repairs / replaces components on automated cranes, elevators, sorters, diverts, palletizes, packaging, and shrink wrap machinery
• Performs skill-level appropriate PM tasks on facility mechanical equipment
• Assists higher-level technicians to install, troubleshoot, and repair facility mechanical equipment or systems

Hydraulics & Pneumatics:

• Performs pump down, pressure discharge, and isolation procedures to make systems safe prior to maintenance activities
• Repairs / replaces cylinders, directional valves, hoses, actuators, and other small powered equipment system components
• Repairs / replaces control valves, pressure sensors, switches, and other basic operating equipment control components
• Troubleshoots / replaces seals, couplings, check valves, regulators, etc. on small air compressors and hydraulic systems
• Performs skill-level appropriate PM tasks on hydraulic and pneumatic power systems and facility operating equipment
• Assists higher-level technicians to troubleshoot / repair more complex hydraulic or pneumatic system failures prior to assigned tasks

Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation:

• Cleans evaporator and condenser coils, fans, condensate pans; drains / replaces filters on HVAC package units
• Uses manifold gauges and thermometer to determine operating conditions; provides data to higher-level technician for evaluation
• Assists higher-level technicians to install / troubleshoot / repair HVAC units below 30 tons capacity
• Performs other skill-level appropriate PM tasks on HVAC equipment, water chillers

Fire Suppression Systems:

• Secures actuated local wet system to repair water leaks, replace sprinkler heads, switches, etc.; reports system status
• Resets local wet system to operating condition
• Performs skill-level appropriate PM tasks on a dry fire suppression system
• Assists higher-level technicians in troubleshooting / repair / replacement of failed components in facility fire suppression equipment

Electrical / Electronic:

• Repairs / replaces lighting fixtures; replaces light tubes or bulbs
• Uses schematics, diagrams, or drawings to locate local power supply source to an individual unit of electrically-driven equipment
• Correctly uses basic electrical test equipment (volt meter, amp meter, multimeter, and Ohm meter) on basic troubleshooting tasks on AC / DC power (voltages from 12 volts DC to 480 volts AC)
• Troubleshoots / repairs / replaces simple electrical components (fuses, breakers, switches, small motors, heaters, etc.)
• Troubleshoots / repairs / replaces I/O devices on simple PLC-controlled dock levelers, trailer restraints, etc.
• Performs skill level-appropriate PM tasks on electric power, driven and controlled equipment
• Assists higher-level technician to repair failures in more complex electrical equipment and systems
• Assists higher-level technicians to troubleshoot / repair complex PLC or computer control systems, VFDs, etc.

Welding:

• Performs fire watch duties for higher-level welders and PM welding and metal working equipment
• Prepares equipment and materials for welding by cutting, grinding, or heating
• Brazes and cuts metal equipment using oxygen / acetylene torch
• Makes simple equipment repairs using an electric arc welder or oxyacetylene torch
• Complies with company standards for hot work
• Performs PM tasks on welding equipment
• Assists higher-level technicians on more complex repairs or fabrication requiring metal working and welding

Compliance:

• Follows standard operating procedures (SOP) related to work order and parts requisitions completion
• Completes accident and incident reports in compliance with policy
• Holds a universal AC license / certification in order to access refrigerant circuit

The responsibilities and essential functions outlined above describe the general nature and level of work assigned to this position. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Duties and responsibilities may be modified at any time based on business needs. Employees may be required to perform other job-related tasks as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.
Qualifications & Key Requirements:
Work Experience:

• 2+ years of experience in mechanical maintenance, electrical maintenance, welding, hydraulic / pneumatic systems, construction trades, or AC maintenance - Required

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strong organization and time-management skills - Required
• Written / verbal communication skills - Required
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and shift focus between tasks; attention to detail - Required
• Initiative - Required

Education:

• HS Diploma or GED - Required

Licenses/Certifications:

• Holds a universal AC license / certification in order to access refrigerant circuit - Required

Physical Demands & Working Conditions:

• Work while standing, sitting, stooping, walking, bending, with hands over head, and in prone position
• Climb; work from a ladder and other elevated work platforms (manlift, scissor lift, catwalk, silo)
• Lift and carry 75 lbs
• Work in extreme temperatures ranging from -20 to 130 degrees

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a Partner encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Last revised: 5/1/2024