Maintenance Technician

Built on Experience. Built for Skill. Built for You.

• Keel was formed by bringing together three industry leaders combining generations of hands-on expertise in steel fabrication, shipbuilding, aerospace, and defense manufacturing.
• That means when you join Keel, you’re joining a team backed by decades of proven craftsmanship and real-world results.
• We build ships, defense systems, aerospace components, and heavy steel structures that serve critical missions — and we do it with pride.
• Your Mission:
• Repairs and maintains machinery and equipment such as engines, motors, pneumatic tools, conveyor systems, and production machines and equipment.
• Explore the Depth of the Role:
• Maintain, clean, lubricate, repair and perform preventive maintenance to production machinery.
• Cleans up and ensures equipment is ready for production.
• Troubleshoot electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical systems.
• Maintains fixtures/equipment to minimize downtime.
• Diagnose repair issues.
• Maintains physical structure of fixtures and equipment.
• Dismantles devices to gain access to and remove defective parts.
• Repairs or replaces defective parts.
• Operates cutting torch to cut metal parts.
• Repairs or replaces gauges, valves, pressure regulators, and related equipment.
• Maintains facility's utilities/support equipment: air, water, drain, steam, hydraulic, electric, etc.
• Ensure personal safety and the safety of team members; understand how machines work and how to operate them safely; knowledge of emergency stops; and utilization of personal protective equipment.
• Maintain clean work environment.
• Perform routine cleaning of equipment and general housekeeping at and around maintenance shop.
• Collects and handles solid and hazardous waste generated at the work site and deposits separately in designated containers.
• All other related duties as assigned.
• Mission Readiness:
• High school diploma or GED required.
• 5+ years maintenance technician experience required.
• Ability to utilize hand-held tools/machinery/instruments, both manual and powered, both precision and non-precision.
• Perform basic maintenance tasks, such as plumbing, painting, greasing, oiling, grinding, drilling, disassembling and reassemble simple machine parts.
• Ability to weld and cut with gas torches, troubleshoot machine controls.
• Ability to follow maintenance procedures and maintain proper documentation, drawings and files.
• Knowledgeable in hydraulic, electrical and pneumatic controls, materials and components. Ability to operate, set, and regulate/adjust machinery.
• Ability to troubleshoot machine controls, disassemble and assemble machine parts.
• Ability to install conduit, pipe, regulators, and hoses
• Knowledgeable in PLC and computer controls, relay ladder logic, and electronic controls preferred.
• Travel Requirements:
• Between facilities as needed.
• Physical Requirements:
• May be required to stand, walk, sit, reach/pull/push with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop or kneel regularly.
• May lift or carry 50lbs. Weights exceeding 50lbs will require mechanical means to maneuver.

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