Maintenance Technician 3

Description

The Maintenance Technician 3 is responsible for installing, troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining fixed plant and mineral processing equipment to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations. This technical role requires advanced skills and experience.

This role supports crushing, conveying, grinding/milling, flotation, pumping, and related processing systems by performing corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance on critical assets such as crushers, conveyors, ball mills, slurry pumps, motors, gearboxes, and process piping.

The Maintenance Technician plays a key role in minimizing downtime by quickly diagnosing equipment failures, executing quality repairs, and identifying root causes to improve long-term reliability. Working closely with operations and metallurgy teams, this position helps ensure equipment availability meets production targets while maintaining strict adherence to safety standards, MSHA compliance, and best-practice maintenance procedures.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Perform highly diversified duties to install and maintain equipment.
2. Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of equipment during production and performs scheduled maintenance repairs of equipment.
3. Perform simple mechanic duties and responsibilities.
4. Perform mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, troubleshooting and repair of equipment.
5. Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
6. Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test and make adjustments.
7. Perform regular preventive maintenance on equipment.
8. Use a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters and material handling equipment in performing duties.
9. Detect faulty operations, defective material and report those and any unusual situations to proper supervision.
10. Comply with safety regulations and maintain clean and orderly work areas.

Competencies

1. Technical Capacity
2. Ethical Conduct
3. Communication Proficiency
4. Results Driven
5. Initiative

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The employee is exposed to a variety of extreme weather conditions at construction job sites. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud.

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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are rotating 12-hour shifts operating on a 7-days-on and 7-days-off schedule starting on Thursday and working through till the following Wednesday. This position will require work during weekends and holidays.

Travel
No travel is expected for this position.

Work Authorization/Security Clearance

Authorized to work in the United States.

AAP/EEO Statement

Milford Mining is an equal employment opportunity company.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements

Required Education and Experience

1. High school diploma/GED and completion of a craft apprenticeship, or an equivalent number of years of education and maintenance experience.
2. 5+ years of mining experience; strong hydraulic, mechanical and industrial skills.

Preferred Education and Experience

1. MSHA Certification(s)