Retread Maintenance Technician

Req ID: 457426

Address: 21482 FM 471 S Natalia, TX, 78059

Benefits: * Fuel Your Growth with Love's - company funded tuition assistance program * Paid Time Off * Flexible Scheduling * 401(k) – 100% match up to 5% * Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance after 30 days * Competitive Pay * Career Development * Hiring Immediately  

Objective of the position: Retread Maintenance Technician's help drive the continued success of our Retread Centers by working safely and efficiently. Retread Maintenance Technicians will be responsible for all functions as it pertains to retread maintenance, including but not limited to power washing, preventive equipment maintenance, equipment repairs, and maintaining part inventory. The Retread Maintenance Technician position is focused on ensuring all equipment and the facility are maintained and running smoothly so demands of the commercial retread customer are met. Retread Maintenance Technicians are responsible for developing the skills necessary to work within the fast paced and detailed environment. A successful Retread Maintenance Technician will perform various daily duties as assigned by the Retread Plant Manager to ensure proper warehouse cleanliness and maintenance standards are upheld. Success in this role is measured in the technician's ability to learn new skills, provide excellent customer service, and promote an atmosphere of teamwork within in the organization.

Essential functions:

• Maintain a safe and clean facility and use safety first practices to remain accident-free.
• Use all safety related PPE such as gloves, safety glasses and vest, and harnesses or seatbelts while driving equipment.
• Inspecting new equipment prior to use on site.
• Responsible for inspecting and verifying daily safety checks of equipment.
• Dismantling and repairing or replacing faulty components.
• Reassembling and testing components to ensure they are working safely.
• Undertaking routine inspections of gearboxes, hydraulics, electrical systems, and frames.
• Diagnose causes of malfunctioning of machines, motors, pumps, transformers, and related mechanical, electro/mechanical components.
• Keep accurate record of work completed on machinery utilizing company Shop Connect system.
• Complete daily, monthly, and yearly inspections and accurately record inspection data.
• Use wide range of specialist hand and power tools, including sockets, spanners, screwdrivers, drills, lifting gear, and welding/cutting equipment.  Assist with periodic inventory counts.
• Perform routine facilities maintenance and repairs.
• Maintain personal grooming and uniform standards.
• Maintain company attendance standards.  Other tasks as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED preferred Experience:
• Prior experience working in a distribution center/warehouse environment.
• 1 industrial maintenance experience preferred

Skills and physical demands:

• Hard Skills: Ability to learn and operate all facility equipment including computers, forklifts, floor scrubbers, and retreading machinery.
• Soft Skills: Good verbal and written communication skills, perform basic arithmetic functions: add, subtract, multiply, and divide, time management skills, organization skills, can-do attitude, sense of urgency, and strong work ethic.
• Typical Physical Demands:
• Requires normal range of hearing and vision.
• Very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, and working from elevated surfaces.
• Frequently lift and/or move over 75 pounds.
• Manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and calculator.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work enviornment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be working within a fast paced distribution center and tire retread plant environment where there may be wide temperature variations depending on weather conditions. While performing duties, the employee is frequently exposed to dirt, dust, rubber smells, and debris, cleaning solutions as well as powered material handling equipment and commercial truck traffic.

Love’s has been fueling customers’ journeys since 1964. Innovation and perseverance continue to lead the way for the family-owned and -operated business headquartered in Oklahoma City with more than 40,000 team members in North America and Europe. The company’s core business is travel stops and convenience stores with more than 630 locations in 42 states. Love’s continues its commitment to offer products and services that provide value for professional drivers, fleets, four-wheel customers, RVers, alternative fuel and wholesale fuel customers. Giving back to communities Love’s serves and maintaining an inclusive and diverse workplace are hallmarks of the company’s award-winning culture.

The Love’s Family of Companies includes:

• Gemini Motor Transport, one of the industry’s safest trucking fleets.
• Speedco and Love’s Truck Care, the largest oil change and preventive maintenance and total truck care network.
• Musket, a rapidly growing, Houston-based commodities supplier and trader.
• Trillium, a Houston-based alternative fuels expert.
• TVC Pro-driver, a commercial driver’s license (CDL) protection subscription service.