Maintenance Technician

Company Description

Founded in 1984, MAT Holdings, Inc. is a privately held $1.9 billion multi-national company with manufacturing operations, distribution centers, and sourcing offices worldwide in the automotive, fencing, hardware, and power equipment sectors. Headquartered in Long Grove, Illinois, we have over 40 factories on three continents, including 2.1 million square feet of U.S. distribution and manufacturing space. We provide our customers various services, including U.S. and overseas engineering, quality assurance, logistic and distribution support, strategic warehousing, bi-lingual sourcing, product development, and marketing. MAT is a family of companies and products that provides employment opportunities to more than 14,000 employees in 12 countries.

Our brake shoe manufacturing facility in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, produces high-quality brake shoes, new brake kits, and lined shoes for medium—and heavy-duty truck and bus applications. The business is part of MAT's brake products group, which is part of our presence in the commercial vehicle braking segment and complements our existing product offering in our heavy-duty portfolio.

MAT HD (mat-hd.com)

Job Description

Job Summary:

Pay Range - $25-$35/HR CA

Replacement Position

Shift Hours: Mon through Thurs (7:00 am to 5:30 pm)

Pay is weekly paid every Friday

Performs highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain production and facility equipment according to safety, predictive, and productive maintenance systems and processes to support the achievement of the company's business goals and objectives. Proactively seeks opportunities for improvement to ensure maximum company performance.

• Efficiently repairs machinery through careful planning, exceptional detail to execution, and crucial intention of the machinery running more efficiently and reliably than before repair needs.
• Proactively assess all machinery to determine repair needs before a breakdown occurs.
• Provide experienced counsel during the trouble-shooting process of repair.
• Continuously determine the greatest opportunity for improving efficiencies and decreasing costs when deciding whether to repair machinery or purchase new equipment.
• Collaborate with all Operations and Warehouse areas to ensure the best priority and course of action is taken.
• Continuously assess repair tooling and equipment to ensure excellent working conditions for maximum performance.
• Proactively perform maintenance procedures to ensure the most efficient machinery operations and minimize the risk of failure.
• Continuously assess existing preventative maintenance processes and procedures to find opportunities for improvement.
• Provides expert Technical Support.
  
  

Qualifications

• High school diploma required, 2 years of college preferred
• 3 to 5 years of maintenance experience
• Strong electrical and mechanical skills including, but not limited to, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting, and repair of production machines, vehicles and maintenance of equipment for use in facility as well as the facility itself.
• Knowledge and understanding of metal fabrication equipment is required.
  
  

Specific skills include: basic computer skills, good coaching and feedback skills, and excellent communication skills (listening, verbal, and written).

Benefits

• RRSP
• Medical, Dental & Vision
• Tuition Reimbursement for PT & FT employees
• Career Development based on Skills Matrix
  
  

Additional Information

For Questions, please contact Josephine Ferguson at (678) 214-7724