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Maintenance Tech / Millwright

VetJobs
Rapids, IA Full Time
POSTED ON 8/5/2025 CLOSED ON 9/5/2025

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Job Description

ATTENTION MILITARY AFFILIATED JOB SEEKERS - Our organization works with partner companies to source qualified talent for their open roles. The following position is available to Veterans, Transitioning Military, National Guard and Reserve Members, Military Spouses, Wounded Warriors, and their Caregivers. If you have the required skill set, education requirements, and experience, please click the submit button and follow the next steps. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this role is "On-Site" at the location detailed in the job post.

This position performs a variety of maintenance functions to maintain, repair and modify buildings, grounds, laboratories, production machines and production equipment and performs the corrective and preventive maintenance programs for the above.

What will you do?

  • Moves and rearranges items such as office furniture to very heavy machines and equipment.
  • Dismantles storage racks, transports them to a new location, and reassembles racks.
  • Fabricates and welds work benches, tables and shelves.
  • Repairs and installs machine guards.
  • Makes plumbing repairs and installs pipe and fittings such as water, oil, air, gas, steam, and condensate lines at floor and ceiling levels of building.
  • Welds machine tools to make repairs and alterations. Selects best welding method for job from acetylene, electric, or wire welding techniques.
  • Repairs machine and equipment such as heat treat furnaces, resistance welders.
  • Diagnoses problems and cause of failure to operate correctly.
  • Disassembles machines or equipment in defective area.
  • Completes reassembly of machines and equipment.
  • Operates machinery to test and adjusts until machine is operating correctly
  • Repairs small equipment such as tape shooters, air wrenches, and pop rivet guns by disassembling, installing new parts and reassembling devices.
  • Performs preventive maintenance duties to maintain buildings, grounds, machines & equipment.
  • Examples of duties include changing air filters; changing oil in and lubricating machines; cleaning vents; checking gears, chains, sprockets, valves and equipment breakage; and examining controls, indicator lights, guards, sensing devices, emergency stops, circuits, lamps and switches.
  • Records inspections and repairs.

What qualifications will make you successful?

  • Associates Degree in Industrial Technology or similar field and two years Millwright/Mechanic experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Read and understand complex written materials, blueprints, diagrams and sketches.
  • Understand and perform welding, mechanics, pneumatics and hydraulics.
  • Understand complex electrical/electronic equipment, circuits, standards & controls.
  • Diagnose and solve building, equipment and machine problems.

What's in it for me?

  • Robust benefits package to include benefits eligibility first day of employment
  • 401k with company match
  • Opportunity for overtime, but not required
  • Well-Being benefits
  • PTO and 13 paid holidays
  • Climate controlled facility
  • Competitive hourly wage
  • Starting pay $40.80/hour
  • 2nd shift hours (which adds $2/hour as shift differential): 3:00 pm - 11:00 am
    • (after completion of training on 1st shift)
Auto req ID

450755BR

Minimum Education Required

Associates

Job Category

Maintenance

City*

Cedar Rapids

State*

Iowa

Job Code

Maintenance_Plant Maintenance_Plant

Company

Schneider Electric

Salary Range

$75,000-$100,000

Salary : $75,000 - $100,000

Maintenance Tech / Millwright
Schneider Electric -
Rapids, IA
Millwright
Skilled Trades Services -
Rapids, IA

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