Elevator Mechanic

DUTIES:

• Responsible for maintaining a safe workplace and ensuring that safety is the highest priority in the workplace.
• Comply with all Environmental Health & Safety and Quality Assurance requirements and goals.  Provide information and materials to these divisions as necessary to ensure adequate and legal documentation.
• Locate and determine causes of trouble in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems using test lamps, ammeters, and voltmeters.
• Disassemble defective units and repair or replace parts including locks, gears, cables, and faulty safety devices.
• Lubricate bearings and other parts to minimize friction.
• Install or repair transformers, switchboards, controllers, circuit breakers, motors, heating units, conduit systems, or other transmission equipment. Works from blueprints, drawings, layouts, or other specifications to locate and diagnose trouble in the equipment
• Perform preventative maintenance in accordance with published schedules, operating procedures, and equipment warranties. Provide input to upgrade content and frequency of preventative maintenance tasks.
• Conducts tests of equipment using voltmeters, ammeters, ohmmeters, continuity testers, feeler gauges, frequency counters and other test equipment considered tools of the trade.
• Perform additional duties and projects as assigned.

REQUIRED:

Minimum Acceptable Experience Level:

• Experience must include familiarity with working sketches, engineering drawings, wiring diagrams and manufacturers’ operations and maintenance manuals.
• Knowledge of applicable European and/or US Electrical Codes and acceptable trade practices also.
• Familiar with annual maintenance requirements of electrical and mechanical systems.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of applicable US Electrical Codes and acceptable trade practices.
• Familiarity with annual maintenance requirements and load testing procedures.

Education:

• A high school diploma or GED is required.
• Strongly preferred is either an apprentice program with a Journeyman's Certificate and/or equivalent field experience

DESIRED:

• Experience with Otis GEN2 MRL Elevators is highly desirable.
• Previous out of home country experience and previous work experience in harsh environmental conditions are a plus.
• Experience working with Amentum.

OTHER KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Knowledge of principles and processes involved in operating and maintaining elevators at an overseas facility.
• Experience providing excellent customer services.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment that requires handling multiple tasks at a given time and rapidly adapting to changing priorities and schedules.
• Cross-cultural sensitivity with an international perspective.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Computer skills, specifically in Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Ability to become an active and functioning member of a team.
• Ability to be innovative and be an agent for change.
• Expert communication skills to facilitate and disseminate information.

Work Environment, Physical Demands, and Mental Demands:

• Regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear. 
• Frequently is required to walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and work in tiring and uncomfortable positions.
• Occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, and taste or smell. 
• Frequently lifts items weighing 15-25 pounds and occasionally in excess of 45 pounds.
• Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, extreme heat, and vibration. 
• Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; and risk of electrical shock.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud or unsafe conditions, questioning nonstandard operations or environmental factors that may involve unmitigated hazards, and providing feedback to supervisors and managers on all safety issues.