DuPont

General Mechanic

NA-US-DE-PENCADER Full time

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The DuPont Vespel® Plant currently has an opening for Maintenance Multi-Craft Mechanic. If you are an enthusiastic team player who is seeking a new opportunity, then this is the role for you!

The plant is a 24/7 production facility. This is primarily a day shift position (M-F 6:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.) with some overtime in the form of extended hours, weekend and occasional evening or weekend call-in work. 

Primary focus is to provide maintenance support to plant facilities and operations by performing preventive and predictive maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairing manufacturing equipment. Maintenance team members are responsible for the safe removal, assembly/disassembly, repair, installation and improvement of highly specialized production equipment.

Employees are expected to support all Safety, Environmental, Quality and Personal Development activities/systems.

DuPont is a tobacco free work environment.

The essential functions of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Complete general maintenance and equipment repairs in an accurate and safe manner

  • Flexibility, initiative, and perseverance to troubleshoot and solve complex problems

  • Maintain complete records, manuals, technical references, prints, and diagrams associated with all plant maintenance and repair activities

  • Interpret blue prints, sketches, and verbal instruction.

  • Update work instructions, procedures, and other media

  • Use desktop computer-based systems such as SAP, ETQ Reliance, email, and MS Office Suite, etc.

  • Basic knowledge of hydraulics operations

  • Install and maintain hydraulic equipment

  • Experience with compression molding presses and hydraulic presses is helpful.

Minimum Competencies Required:

  • High School diploma or GED equivalent

  • A trade/journeyman certificate or higher in a maintenance, mechanical, or related field

  • 3+ years of experience in industrial plant maintenance on process equipment in the following:

    • Pumps, compressors, rotating equipment, etc., HVAC (boilers, cooling towers, air compressors, chillers, etc.)

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Ability to follow and help write detailed maintenance procedures

Physical Qualifications and Requirements:

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 regularly required to:

  • Stand; walk; and use arms and hands to handle, feel, reach, pull, turn, grasp, and carry items

  • Stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl

  • Frequently lift and/or move up to 45 pounds

  • Be able and willing to wear all PPE required, including a respirator both continuously or intermittently throughout the shift, for a high hazard chemical industrial manufacturing environment

  • Climb up/down staircases, ladders, and scaffolding on an hourly/daily basis to perform job tasks

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