Valmont Industries, Inc.
Maintenance Technician
Houston TX · Junior
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About the role
- This position reports to the Maintenance Manager.
- Domestic travel overnight up to 2% annually to assist with maintenance at other plant locations.
- Become knowledgeable with plant equipment.
Responsibilities
- Work Life Support.
Requirements
- Actively pursuing an Associate's or Technical degree in Industrial Maintenance or related field.
- Six (6) of experience with basic troubleshooting skills.
- Must display an aptitude for problem solving and the ability to plan for potential problems or needs.
- The Maintenance Technician assists with preventive maintenance and repairs on all plant equipment and facilities with a learned level of proficiency.
- Must be company trained and authorized to operate powered industrial trucks, aerial platforms and bridge cranes.
- Must be company trained and authorized in arc flash safety, confined space entry, hazardous energy control and fall protection.
- Wear all required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and work in a non-temperature-controlled environment, as well as with exposure to outdoors.
- Six (6) months of industrial maintenance experience.
- Six (6) months of experience basic welding/fabricating metal structures/components.
Skills
- 0-1 year of relevant experience.
- Mechanical aptitude and desire to learn.
- The ability to read and follow written and verbal instructions in English.
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Communicate problems or needs to departmental supervision.
- Communicate and interact with coworkers in a professional manner.
- Ability to be company trained and authorized to operate powered industrial trucks, aerial platforms and bridge cranes.
- Ability to be company trained and authorized in arc flash safety, confined space entry, hazardous energy control and fall protection.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, although most frequent lift is up to 30 pounds.
- Ability to spend 75% of workday standing or walking, 10% bending or kneeling, 10% stooping, and 5% climbing.
- Must be able to distinguish colors.
- Climb and work from ladders, aerial platforms, bridge cranes, and roofs in excess of 80 feet.
Compensation
- $25.50+ per hour - Based on Experience
Benefits
- Valmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Wellbeing benefit package to ensure their individual and family's overall wellness needs are met.
- Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision).
- 401k retirement plan with company match.
- Paid time off.
- Employer paid life insurance.
- Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave.
- Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year.
- Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services and more.
Company info
- 6123 Cunningham Rd Houston Texas 77041
- We're Here to Move the World Forward.
- Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways.
- Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more.
- Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.
- Join a Fortune 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today.
- We are the modern workforce.
- Are you ready to move the world forward?
- Available Shift:
- Monday - Friday from 5:00 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Equal opportunity
- Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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