The Senior Mechanic is responsible for the proactive maintenance, advanced troubleshooting, and complex repair of heavy industrial machinery and production equipment. This role ensures maximum equipment uptime and operational reliability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Preventive & Corrective Maintenance: Perform scheduled inspections, routine servicing, and complex mechanical overhauls on production machinery.
- Advanced Diagnostics: Troubleshoot pneumatic, hydraulic, mechanical, and basic electrical systems to identify root causes of equipment failure.
- Parts & Inventory Management: Oversee spare parts inventory, recommend replacement components, and maintain accurate maintenance logs.
- Safety & Compliance: Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) adherence and compliance with all environmental and workplace safety standards during repair operations.
- Mentorship: Guide and support junior mechanics and operators on routine equipment upkeep and minor troubleshooting.
- Precision Alignment: Perform mechanical precision alignments (e.g., laser shaft alignment, dynamic balancing) on pumps, motors, and gearboxes.
- Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA): Lead technical investigations into major or repeated mechanical breakages and publish corrective engineering reports.
- Tooling & Equipment Upgrades: Collaborate with plant engineering to retrofit existing machinery and test mechanical modifications.
- Emergency Response Execution: Act as primary technical responder during major facility outages or critical machinery breakdowns.