Maintenance Technician
Crane · Montgomery, TX
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Degree
- Required
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level reliability role at Crane (industrial) in Montgomery, TX. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently.
- They ask for
- degree required
- Tools it names
- TPM, IATF 16949, Welding
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How this role compares
Against 119 other live reliability postings in Texas.
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 61%
- PLC 37%
- ✓ Welding 34%
- Root cause 26%
- EHS / safety 23%
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Stands out: this posting asks for TPM, IATF 16949, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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Position Summary
The Maintenance Technician is responsible for the maintenance, repair, and overall upkeep of all company buildings, grounds, machinery, and equipment. This role ensures that industrial machinery, electrical systems, water lines, and facility structures remain operational, safe, and efficient. The technician performs routine and preventive maintenance, troubleshoots equipment issues, assists external vendors when specialized repairs are required, and contributes to the general cleanliness and functionality of the company grounds. This position plays a key role in maintaining smooth operational workflows across the property and supporting ongoing production needs.
Principle
Responsibilities
- ◆Performing routine maintenance on various equipment per property management schedule
- ◆Cleaning, checking, and lubricating machinery and equipment as part of routine preventive maintenance activities
- ◆Troubleshooting and repairing equipment and machinery failures as they arise
- ◆Sustaining Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) programs to improve equipment reliability and reduce unplanned downtime
- ◆Supporting IATF 16949 maintenance
requirements
by maintaining preventive maintenance records, equipment service history, and evidence of completed maintenance activities
- ✓Running electrical wiring, ranging from 120V to 280V 3-Phase, to machinery and equipment
- ✓Installing and repairing water lines
- ✓Assisting outside vendors when repairs are outside our abilities
- ✓Coordinating with vendors and service providers to support a safe workplace and maintaining required safety documentation for all service providers to the site
- ✓Conducting routine building inspections of emergency systems, including emergency lighting, exits, alarms, and related safety equipment
- ✓Performing the maintenance of the buildings and other structures on the property
- ✓Performing routine clean-up of company grounds.
- ✓Performing the maintenance of the parking lot
- ✓Performing all other duties as assigned by supervisor
Qualifications/experience
- ✓Ability to perform maintenance on industrial machinery such as welders, lathes, pumps, etc.
- ✓Ability to wire 120V, and 240V 3-Phase electrical systems
- ✓Ability to read a wiring diagram
- ✓Ability to braze copper tubing
- ✓Understanding of basic motors and motor controls
- ✓Ability to troubleshoot and repair A/C and D/C drives
- ✓Previous welding experience or supporting welding functions considered a plus
- ✓Ability to work with measurement devices (ex- rulers, measuring tapes, calipers, micrometers)
- ✓Ability to sustain moderate physical effort, working with light to medium weight material.
- ✓Lifting, bending, twisting, carrying, pushing and pulling are common and repetitious. Concentrated mental and visual attention in working to close tolerances is required. High degree of physical and manual dexterity and visual attention for sustained period also required.
- ✓Ability to read and understand standard work instructions
- ✓Familiarity with preventive maintenance documentation, equipment records, and maintenance controls used to support IATF 16949 quality system
responsibilities
are essential job functions and
requirements
and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some
requirements
may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or ot
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highly preferred
- +Demonstrates a positive attitude, strong team spirit, coachability, and a willingness to learn new skills and processes
- +High school education
Physical demands
- •The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- •While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop; kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell.
- •The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work environment
Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is not exposed to weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The shop floor is temperature controlled and maintained at a comfortable working temperature.It will be the responsibility of all employees to perform their work productively and within established production standards. All employees are required to work safely so as not to endanger themselves or others. Safety rules must be adhered to at all times. Management reserves the right to reassign employees to other positions or duties either temporarily or permanently based on production levels or other manufacturing concerns.This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by a person authorized to give instructions or assignments.A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and