Maintenance Technician - SLA

Role Summary

• Join our team as a
• Maintenance Technician - SLA
• Shift: Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm

The Maintenance Technician ensures the safe, efficient operation of production and support equipment by performing preventive maintenance, repairs, calibrations, and troubleshooting according to schedules, work instructions, and direction from the Supervisor or Production Manager. This role coordinates and communicates required downtime with supervisors and scheduling teams, follows LOTO/OSHA and Protolabs safety and quality procedures, and maintains accurate maintenance documentation. The Technician also partners with Engineering to identify and implement reliability improvements, design or fabricate parts to enhance performance, and execute experiments to determine root causes of build failures.

Responsibilities

• Perform preventative maintenance & repair on a variety of support equipment and machines, scheduling and communicating and necessary machine down time to the Supervisor and scheduling teams.
• Perform technical calibrations utilizing basic measuring equipment, as necessary.
• Install, start-up and shut down equipment in accordance with company safety procedures and utilize LOTO procedures where required along with following OSHA requirements
• Troubleshoot equipment issues, following any applicable checklists.
• Assist other technicians to ensure procedures are accurately being executed.
• Identify improvements in equipment reliability and functionality, partnering with Engineering to execute any changes as needed.
• Design and build parts to improve machine performance.
• Design and execute experiments to determine the root cause of build failures
• Complete assignments given by the Supervisor or Production Manager.
• Continually seek ways to improve work processes and individual performance.
• Ensure all tools and are supplies are returned to the appropriate storage space.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• 1+ years of experience in a mechanical, electrical, or relatable equipment maintenance role.
• Work schedule flexibility to adjust to maintenance scheduling with hours as outlined by manager
• Ability to follow directions
• Ability to work safely in a congested environment
• Ability to analyze data for problem resolution

What Sets You Apart

• Prior experience in an additive manufacturing environment.
• 2- or 4-year degree with a technical or engineering focus.
• 2+ years of experience in a mechanical, electrical, or relatable equipment maintenance role.

Physical Demands

While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use a computer keyboard, monitor and mouse, telephone and printer; reach with hands, and arms, talk, see and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop or kneel and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Benefits

• We offer a competitive salary and total rewards package
• We offer amazing benefits including but not limited to:
• Health Insurance: Traditional OR High Deductible plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Account (including employer contributions)
• Dental and Vision
• Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Paid caregiver leave
• You will receive at least 3 weeks of PTO + Wellness + Holiday Pay + Volunteer Hours
• 401k with company match and immediate vest
• Employee Stock Purchase Program at a discounted rate
• Matching grants through Protolabs foundation
• And More!

Proto Labs maintains ITAR-compliant operations in all of our United States based facilities. Due to ITAR regulations, this role is only open to U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents (green card holders) or foreign nationals granted refugee or asylee status. Individuals with temporary visas (e.g. E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, TN or OPT) are not eligible for hire in this role.

Proto Labs, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Indoors (A/C); nonsmoking; the majority of this job function is performed in an office setting requiring normal safety precautions. However, there may be job duties that require the employee to spend time in the manufacturing areas exposed to machinery and noise; eye protection occasionally required. Occasionally works in outside weather conditions. Occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.