Lubrication Technician

Job Summary

Lubrication Technician

We are seeking a skilled Lubrication Technician to join our team at ADM. As a Lubrication Technician, you will be responsible for managing lubricant delivery, storage, and dispensation. You will create and manage routes for machinery re-lubrication and/or inspection, properly change and/or top-off the oil in mechanical equipment, and collaborate with our preferred lubricant supplier to select the right lubricants for our industrial machinery.

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 to select the right lubricants for our 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.

About ADM

At ADM, we unlock the power of nature to provide access to nutrition worldwide. With industry-advancing innovations, a complete portfolio of ingredients and solutions to meet any taste, and a commitment to sustainability, we give customers an edge in solving the nutritional challenges of today and tomorrow. We're a global leader in human and animal nutrition and the world's premier agricultural origination and processing company. Our breadth, depth, insights, facilities, and logistical expertise give us unparalleled capabilities to meet needs for food, beverages, health, and wellness, and more. From the seed of the idea to the outcome of the solution, we enrich the quality of life the world over.