Lubrication Specialist

Job Summary

Lubrication Technician

This role is responsible for managing lubricant delivery, storage, and dispensation. The ideal candidate will have a strong commitment to employee safety and excellent leadership, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage lubricant delivery, storage, and dispensation.
• Create and manage routes for machinery re-lubrication and/or inspection.
• Properly change and/or top-off the oil in mechanical equipment.
• Collaborate with the preferred Lubricant Supplier representative to select proper lubricants for industrial machinery.
• Use standard techniques to select grease application methods that are least intrusive and most effective for industrial machines.
• Use standard techniques to estimate re-grease volume and interval for industrial machines and adjust according to guidelines/experience.
• Properly maintain lubrication equipment.
• Employ basic oil analysis techniques to identify and troubleshoot abnormal lubricant degradation conditions and use standard techniques to adjust the lubricant specification accordingly.
• Manage lubricant testing, and quality assurance, employing proper sampling procedures to ensure representative oil samples are taken consistently.
• Utilize mechanical aptitude and experience to inspect mechanical equipment and identify/report abnormal conditions.
• Record lubricant quantities applied, and other data as required.
• Utilize ultrasonic equipment to enable the proper amount of grease to be added and identify abnormal conditions.

Health, Safety & Environmental:

• Facilitate and ensure adherence to safety regulations, rules, and sound practices.
• Coordinate and participate in audits, prioritizing and tracking completion of findings.
• Ensure that unsafe behavior and conditions are corrected.
• Perform Safety audits and set the example for safety.

Sanitation/Food Safety:

• Ensure the facility maintains world-class sanitation standards.
• Prepare the facility for, and participate in, regulatory/third-party/customer/company audits.

Required Skills:

• Must have a strong commitment to employee safety.
• Require excellent command of the following: leadership, problem-solving, self-motivation, and organizational skills.
• Must have a confident and courteous manner.
• Must be able to hear and speak clearly, read, comprehend, and communicate orally and in writing.
• Ability to enter data into a spreadsheet or tablet.
• Self-starter; needs little supervision.
• Ability and willingness to learn new skills and take on new responsibilities.
• Position requires standing and walking for long periods, climbing stairs and ladders, working with tools, working within close-confined spaces, and working in extreme temperatures.
• Must be willing to participate in team on-call rotation schedule.
• Strong Mechanical Aptitude.
• Experience with or willingness to learn forklift and scissors lift operations.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with hands-on troubleshooting and repair of industrial equipment.
• Demonstrated understanding of failure modes and ability to assess equipment condition, identify defects, and make repair recommendations.
• Level 1 Machinery Lubrication Technician (MLT1) certification.
• Ability to create spreadsheets and trend data.
• Experience with Lube-It is a plus.

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