Kappa Search | Chicago Employment Agencies | Maintenance Engineers
Kappa Search Inc. is a Chicago employment agency that specializes in maintenance, engineering and operations recruitment and placement. We are currently recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer with a well-rounded background including electrical, hydraulics and mechanical.
They are looking for a permanent direct hire maintenance engineer. This person will be the only full-time maintenance person on staff. Currently the maintenance department is an assortment of people who wear multiple hats at the company. A press operator is the primary mechanic and a couple people in house also contribute (former masonry worker does cement work, QC tech does some electrical, etc). They need a maintenance guy to come in, clean the place up, and get some maintenance systems in place such as setting up a tool crib, implementing a PM schedule, etc.
Skills required
Electrical
- 3 phase
- 220V to 440V
- They also have a 565V mixer (Canadian) that runs through a custom transformer
- Most of the presses and other equipment is manually operated, no complex controller experience is required
Mechanical
- Mixers
- Burners
- Kilns
- Boilers
Vacuum/Air systems
- Feeding raw materials
- Lifting finished parts
- 100psi shop air system with 1 compressor
Hydraulics
- Basic systems
- Schedule 80 pressurized piping system that feeds hydraulic fluid to 4 presses
- Accumulators