Maintenance Inspector (Maintenance)

Job ID: 514229

Ash Grove family of companies is one of North America's leading cement manufacturers, with a legacy of innovation and excellence dating back to 1882. The company operates 12 world-class cement plants and a vast network of 41 terminals across the United States and Canada. Renowned for its forward-thinking approach, Ash Grove combines technical expertise, robust safety standards, and empowered talent to deliver high performance and better serve our customers. At Ash Grove, we stand together to reinvent the way our world is built.

To learn more about us go to www.ashgrove.com

Position: Maintenance Inspector

Reports to: Maintenance Supervisor

Shift: 7:00am-3:30pm

Pay: $25-$32

At Ash Grove Cement, people are our first priority. We offer a complete benefits package to include:

• Health Insurance

• Dental Insurance

• Vision Insurance

• Pension Plan

• Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Employee Assistance Program

• Disability Pay

• Life Insurance

• Growth Opportunities and more!

What you'll be contributing:

To inspect, maintain, and repair machinery, equipment and physical structures in the plant. Perform inspections of equipment in the cement plant, following inspection plan, checking for possible anomalies, issuing technical reports and taking necessary actions to correct the deviations found in order to ensure the optimal performance of the equipment, preventing the occurrence of corrective maintenance. Performs technical studies and implementations for plant improvements aimed at productivity gains, cost savings and increased performance.

• Promote and follow all plant safety guidelines.
• Serves as a role model in the areas of leadership, teamwork, customer focus, safety, and environmental stewardship to ensure alignment with company's goals and objectives
• Controls wear parts and / or components in general of selective equipment, performing measurements of thickness of the linings of mills, storages silos, separators, among others, monitoring and controlling the wear, engineering component life, promoting studies and technical survey, aiming to implement the rationalization of work and technological upgrading of the plant equipment, targeting performance improvements, cost reduction and standardization of equipment;
• Performs critical analysis of maintenance, making studies of the root causes of corrective stops equipment, or repetitive stops, proposing technical solutions aimed at obtaining "stop and zero defect", ensuring the reliability of equipment;
• Request purchase requisitions for materials, following the purchasing processes with the supply area, controlling lead times, settling technical questions during the acquisition phase, performing quality control of incoming materials in order to ensure the material in a timely manner available;
• Responds for the technical information contained in the Corporate Maintenance System, such as: equipment register; technical, spare specifications and promotes the activities to be implemented by the Inspection Plan, coordinating the maintenance of historical equipment, pursuing it the most relevant information, recording the data of the main interventions in order to ensure the accuracy of the historical and identification the causes of the deviation
• Prepares sketches of parts and mechanical assemblies for making designs that will serve as models for the purchase of replacement materials, ensuring the quality of the information contained in it, sending them after the planning area to make the necessary drawings;
• Participates in preparing the annual budget of maintenance, using historical and tracking results from previous years, designing useful life of equipment to support budget planning and makes the systematic monitoring of its effectiveness.
• Identifies the need, prepares and revises standards of maintenance and inspection procedures to the equipment.
• Keeps the workplace clean and organized, his tools in perfect working order, cleaning them, providing maintenance and packing it in the appropriate places for preservation;
• Must complete all daily logs including but not limited to workplace inspections, emergency issue reporting, work orders, departmental logs and reports.
• Strives for safety and the environment, fulfilling standards and programs using the personal protective equipment;
• Contributes to the maintenance of 5s program, following the environmental and safety policies.
• Act as On-call Lead for the department on a regular On-Call schedule.

• Additional duties as assigned by supervisor.

Additional duties of Shift Mechanic:

• Assisting Process Attendant on Pre-heater tower
• Answering corrective calls from the control room operator.
• Assist other departments as required.
• Understand and assist control room operator performing basic Abnormality Analysis (root cause analysis) on stops by providing detailed feedback on what is observed/repaired in the field

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• To assist in the training of new employees in the skills and procedures required to perform a task.

Competency:

• Ability to perform the essential duties and responsibilities and must meet qualifications required for this position

To succeed in this position, you will need:

• High school graduation or equivalent is required.
• Minimum 5-10 years of mechanical maintenance experiene preferred.
• Ability to read, write and understand warning labels, instructions, signs, etc.
• Willingness to learn, training will be provided.
• Ability to use hand tools (shovels, rakes, pokers, brooms, drills, wrenches, etc).
• Knowledge of analyzing numerical data, diagnosing problems in a physical process and/or machine. Have the ability to critically exam the information on equipment for accuracy and quality by summarizing numeric information and verbal information. Identifying faults in equipment.
• Experience in manufacturing based environment.
• Competent in required job skills; exhibits ability to learn and apply new skills; keeps abreast of current developments; requires minimal supervision; displays understanding of how job relates to others; uses resources effectively.

What to expect in a cement environment:

Work to be performed in a shop environment as well as outdoor exposure throughout the plant. Mild exposure to cement dust, heat, cold, and noise requires compliance with specified safety guidelines and procedures. Exposure to high elevations of up to 250 feet in height. Exposure to all weather conditions. Normal operation of mobile equipment may result in jarring and vibratory exposure. Have the ability to lift up to 50 lbs. Ability to perform tasks that include frequent sitting, standing, walking, climbing equipment, and working within confined spaces to access and inspect equipment.

What's next for you?

We provide stability and advancement opportunities across North America. Use our tuition reimbursement program to help you meet your career goals.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. The employee will be required to follow all job instructions of his/her supervisor and to perform other work assignments related to plant operations that are not inconsistent with the current labor contract, past practices, or safety policies.

What CRH Offers You

• Highly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs
• An inclusive culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion

About CRH

CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of a large international organization.

If you're up for a rewarding challenge, we invite you to take the first step and apply today! Once you click apply now, you will be brought to our official employment application. Please complete your online profile and it will be sent to the hiring manager. Our system allows you to view and track your status 24 hours a day. Thank you for your interest!

Ash Grove Cement, a CRH Company, is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

EOE/Vet/Disability

CRH is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.