Service Technician

**Career Area**:
Manufacturing

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Role Definition
Performs installation and maintenance of equipment while ensuring safety and performance standards.

Responsibilities
- Complying with safety, health, and environmental guidelines and participating in continuous improvement of the procedures while performing equipment maintenance.
- Tracking work orders, spare parts, and maintenance parts consumption, and scheduled preventive maintenance procedures using Computerized Maintenance Management System.
- Communicating major issues in equipment performance and maintenance; Supporting the team in implementing robust solutions to improve overall efficiency, yield, and uptime of the equipment.
- Inspecting machinery and equipment to identify problems and potential solutions, and performing appropriate troubleshooting, and preventive maintenance procedures.
- Leading solutions for overall plant installation and maintenance of other associated equipment.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors

Service Excellence: Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.

Level Extensive Experience:

- Anticipates customers' needs and satisfies them proactively.
- Resolves complex customer complaints or problems.
- Teaches others how to deliver excellent customer service in a variety of settings.
- Applies the concept of 'Moments of Truth' to customer service.
- Participates in developing a variety of effective ways to deal with difficult customers.
- Recovers from a service failure in a way that enhances customer's esteem of the organization.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Extensive Experience:

- Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
- Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
- Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
- Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
- Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
- Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.

Level Extensive Experience:

- Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
- Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
- Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
- Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
- Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
- Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Level Extensive Experience:

- Creates reference documents for Planned Maintenance and evaluates Condition Based Maintenance data.
- Oversees maintenance processes and resolves any ineffective approaches to avoid repeating mistakes.
- Coaches operators on how to prolong the life span of all plant equipment.
- Designs procedures for preventive measures to help improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Monitors preventive maintenance system operations and advises on adjustments needed for the system.
- Coordinates resources for maintenance, repair and overhaul of plant equipment.

Mechanical/Machinery: Knowledge of machines and tools; ability to use knowledge of machinery or mechanical objects including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

Level Extensive Experience:

- Provides key input to major acquisition, operating, maintenance and safety issues and considerations involving equipment and machinery.
- Uses/operates and maintains the most complex tools and machinery.
- Recommends on-going improvements regarding operation, maintenance, safety and training of equipment and machinery.
- Advises and coaches senior management regarding key the benefits, costs, and rationale for standards, policies, methods and actual equipment and machinery used.
- Mentors, coaches and trains others in the use, operation and maintenance of various equipment, tools and machinery.
- Resolves the most complex problems regarding the use, operation or maintenance of equipment and machinery.

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