Who You'll Work With
As a Lead Maintenance Technician reporting to the D2 Maintenance Supervisor, you'll work with a highly motivated team skilled in industrial maintenance to maintain and repair plastics manufacturing equipment in extrusion, thermoforming, and injection molding processes. You'll also mentor other technicians and help set daily team activities.
Shift: N1: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and every other Monday, 5:30 p.m. – 5:30 a.m.
Who We Are Looking For
The candidate needs strong problem-solving ability to identify defects and repair industrial equipment. Successful candidates will have familiarity and training with electrical, mechanical, and fluid system safety, diagnostics, and repair.
Required Skills & Experience
- High school diploma or GED.
- Post-high-school technical or vocational education, or related military training in industrial maintenance technology and industrial electrical systems.
- Experience and/or certification working with common programmable logic controllers (PLC) and variable frequency drives.
- Familiarity with reliability-based maintenance programs and principles.
- Five years of industrial or manufacturing maintenance experience, preferably in plastics manufacturing.
- Strong industrial mechanical experience resolving issues with shafts, pulleys, belts, pumps, couplers, actuators, and hydraulic presses.
- Electrical safety, troubleshooting, and repair experience, including PLC control systems, AC electrical systems and components up to three-phase 480 volts, DC electrical systems and components, and replacement of drives, ball screws, motors, pumps, heaters, switches, and HMI panels.
- Experience using hand tools, machine shop equipment, precision measuring instruments, digital multimeters, and cutting and welding equipment.
- Ability to read and understand mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical documentation and drawings.
- Personal computer skills, including Microsoft Office and computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS); SAP is preferred.
- Ability to work 12-hour shifts, including possible evenings, weekends, and holidays.
- Ability to lift objects up to 50 pounds.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Experience coaching others on technical topics and mentoring peers.
- Experience with plastic processing equipment and processes, including extrusion, thermoforming, injection molding, driers, loaders, and transfer systems.
- Experience and/or certification with industrial automation and robotics; Denso and ABB preferred.
- Ability to become certified to operate forklifts, man lifts, and scissor lifts.
What You'll Work On
At Nike Air Manufacturing Innovation, we create and produce proprietary cushioning systems that make Nike Air products famous. Customized plastics processing equipment is used across extrusion, thermoforming, and injection molding technologies.
In 24/7 production facilities, industrial maintenance professionals perform preventative maintenance, deploy projects to decrease downtime, respond to equipment issues, and return assets to production. The Maintenance team supports the facility in teams aligned to four shifts.
As a Lead Maintenance Technician, you will support a production shift and make repairs or modifications to production equipment using skills in controls, drawings, electrical systems, general mechanics, hand tools, hydraulics, machine shop operations, piping systems, PLCs, pneumatics, RF, troubleshooting, welding, and programming.
You will perform preventive maintenance and determine the repair and maintenance work necessary to prevent equipment failure and improve reliability. As needed, you will contact vendors, research problems, identify components, order maintenance parts, track repairable flagged parts, and promptly escalate part issues to supervisors or management with potential solutions.
NIKE, Inc. offers a generous total rewards package, a casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and professional development opportunities. NIKE, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.