Job description

Amsted Rail is the world’s leading manufacturer of undercarriage and end of car rail components for heavy haul freight rail cars and locomotives. Our company focus for more than a century has been on providing the most innovative products and integrated systems to meet the needs of the global heavy haul freight rail industry.

We have an immediate opening for a Maintenance Mechanic - Technician at our Hammond, IN. facility. This is a great opportunity to work with a stable, well established company! We are busy, so OT is available!

Position Summary:

The Maintenance Mechanic-Technician will properly diagnose and repair mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic equipment and maintain buildings.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be able to work from electrical, mechanical and hydraulic prints, diagrams, and operating manuals.
• Must be able to cut metal with an Oxy-Acetylene torch, air-arc, band saw, or hand tools.
• Must be able to weld via MIG, TIG, or stick to fabricate new parts or to do machine repairs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in an industrial environment preferred.
• Experience working on, installing, fixing, and programing robotic control systems.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Perform preventative maintenance procedures on building, mechanical equipment on a schedule basis.
• Maintain records of scheduled maintenance and fill out work orders.
• Respond to emergency maintenance requests as required.
• Lay out and install any new or old equipment, machinery, structural work, conveyors, and piping to machinery.
• Inspect and maintain fire systems.
• Repair pneumatic and hydraulic systems.
• Assist with the renovation/remodeling of the building such as repairs to plaster or drywall, painting of building, fixing of floors, repair broken windows, and repair or replace doors.
• Change grinding wheels to any of the grinders in the plant and replace the old stone with a new stone when finished.
• Make special tools, slings, equipment, and rigging for overhead cranes.
• Repair and maintain forklifts and cranes.
• Repair and balance scales in the plant.
• Inspect, remove, or install electrical components such as transformers, overloads, circuit breakers, proxy switches, limit switches, outlets, disconnects, motors, relays, contactors, modulator motors, actuators, electric motor break, electrical valves, switch boards, fuses, heaters, photo eyes, pressure switches, Honeywell controllers, thermocouples, and all other electrical components.
• Install and maintain wiring of lights inside and outside of the plant and this includes changing of light bulbs and ballast of lights

Evaluation Areas: Prospective candidates will be evaluated on technical knowledge, the ability to learn, work standards, initiative, innovation, written and verbal communication, problem solving/assessment, and teamwork/collaboration.

About Amsted Rail

Amsted Rail is an industry leader that can offer more than a chance to succeed!

Through our competitive wages, outstanding benefits, and internal development and advancement opportunities, you will have the chance to create a career of which you can be proud, whether inside Amsted Rail or within one of our other five businesses within Amsted Industries.

Check us out at our Youtube page at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=amsted+rail to see what we are all about!

Visit our website at www.amstedrail.com. You will be impressed!

Please apply at www.amstedrail.com/careers.

EOC M/F/D/V/LGBT

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $27.50 - $34.79 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Night shift
• Overtime

Experience:

• Maintenance Manufacturing: 2 years (Required)

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Required)
• Night Shift (Required)
• Overnight Shift (Required)

Work Location: One location

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