Maintenance Mechanic

at Aerotek in WHEELING, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Maintenance Project Specialist

Job Description

Seeking a dedicated Maintenance Project Specialist to oversee comprehensive maintenance tasks including installation, repair, and diagnosis of old and new machinery across multiple facilities. This role involves working with industrial machines such as punch presses, rewinders, thermoforming machines, and cartoning machines. Responsibilities include moving machines between locations, using mills, lathes, and drill presses, and performing mechanical and electrical maintenance. The candidate will spend 85% of their day on preventative maintenance and repairing machinery, with 15% allocated to other facilities handling various maintenance tasks.

Hard Skills

+ Mechanical Maintenance

+ Electrical Maintenance

+ Experience with mills, lathes, and drill presses

+ Knowledge of Allen Bradley PLC’s

+ Ability to work with voltages up to 480V

+ Experience with lockout/tagout procedures

Soft Skills

+ Ability to handle a loud working environment

+ Comfortable moving between multiple facilities

Job Type

This is a permanent position.

Work Site

This is a fully on-site position in Wheeling, Illinois.

Work Environment

This role operates on a 1st shift basis from 6:30 AM to 4:30 PM during weekdays, with additional hours as needed depending on production demands. Saturdays involve 5 1/2 hours of work, typically involving overtime. The environment is a loud manufacturing setting, requiring comfort with high noise levels. The maintenance team is skilled and collaborates across approximately 900 employees in total, focusing on both preventative and reactive maintenance tasks.

About Aerotek:

We know that a company’s success starts with its employees. We also know that an individual’s success starts with the right career opportunity. As a Best of Staffing® Client and Talent leader, Aerotek’s people-focused approach yields competitive advantage for our clients and rewarding careers for our contract employees. Since 1983, Aerotek has grown to become a leader in recruiting and staffing services. With more than 250 non-franchised offices, Aerotek’s 8,000 internal employees serve more than 300,000 contract employees and 18,000 clients every year. Aerotek is an Allegis Group company, the global leader in talent solutions. Learn more at Aerotek.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.