Equipment Cleaning Technician

About the Role

Operates equipment to and from the cleaning area. Utilizes high-pressure steam-cleaning equipment to clean equipment. Performs preventive maintenance on the wash rack and ensures a safe and clean work area per standard operating procedures. Assists in any way needed to meet Contamination Control guidelines. Loads and unloads materials, parts, or products onto or from pallets, skids, conveyors, or trucks. Performs other duties as assigned.

Key Responsibilities

• Operates equipment to and from cleaning area.
• Utilizes high-pressure steam-cleaning equipment to clean equipment.
• Performs preventive maintenance on the wash rack.
• Ensures a safe and clean work area per standard operating procedures.
• Assists to meet Contamination Control guidelines.
• Loads and unloads materials, parts, or products onto or from pallets, skids, conveyors, or trucks.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• English language proficiency (comprehend, speak, and write).
• Basic problem-solving ability using established examples/guidance.
• Some creativity to generate solutions or improve effectiveness within well-established boundaries.
• Driver Safety, Compliance, and Risk Prevention: Demonstrates safe, aware, and responsible operation of a motor vehicle, consistently following traffic laws, company policies, and regulatory requirements. Proactively identifies and mitigates risks, practices defensive driving to prevent incidents, protects equipment, and ensures the safety of employees, customers, and the public while operating a company vehicle at any time and while operating a personal vehicle on company business.
• Communication: Uses active listening skills, conveys information clearly and understandably, uses feedback to verify effective communication, and keeps others informed.
• Takes Initiative: Takes appropriate action to resolve issues without requiring direction, seeks out others' perspectives, and makes timely decisions.
• Results Oriented: Has a strong sense of urgency and commitment to achieve desired results, remains focused, identifies efficient methods, and adjusts schedules to achieve goals without sacrificing quality.
• Confidence and Drive: Confident in ideas and capability, willing to take an independent position, approaches challenging tasks with a "can-do" attitude, and driven to see tasks through to completion.
• Adaptability: Adapts to changing business needs, conditions, and work responsibilities; adapts approach, goals, and methods to achieve solutions in dynamic situations; recovers quickly from setbacks; and is open to new ways of doing things.
• Credibility: Demonstrated concern for being responsible, reliable, and trustworthy; maintains commitments; respects confidentiality; is honest and forthright; takes personal responsibility for work quality and timeliness; is punctual; and follows instructions, policies, and procedures.
• Personal Development: Takes responsibility for personal learning and development by acquiring and refining technical and professional skills; obtains developmental opportunities proactively; and actively seeks and embraces growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Some High School education.
• 6 months or less of work experience.

Physical Demands

• Climbing: Frequently
• Balancing: Constantly
• Stooping: Occasionally
• Kneeling: Frequently
• Crouching: Frequently
• Crawling: Occasionally
• Reaching: Frequently
• Standing: Constantly
• Sitting: Frequently
• Walking: Frequently
• Feeling: Occasionally
• Fingering: Occasionally
• Grasping: Frequently
• Repetitive Motion: Frequently
• Talking: Occasionally
• Hearing: Constantly
• Pushing - Up to 25 lbs.: Frequently
• Pulling - Up to 25 lbs.: Frequently
• Lifting - Up to 25 lbs.: Frequently
• Pushing - 26-50 lbs.: Occasionally
• Pulling - 26-50 lbs.: Occasionally
• Lifting - 26-50 lbs.: Occasionally
• Pushing - Over 50 lbs.: Occasionally
• Pulling - Over 50 lbs.: Occasionally
• Lifting - Over 50 lbs.: Occasionally

Environmental Conditions

• Inside conditions: Occasionally
• Outside environmental conditions: Constantly
• Extreme cold: Occasionally
• Extreme heat: Frequently
• Noise sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout to be heard: Constantly
• Vibration: Constantly
• Hazards (proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working in high places, exposure to heat and/or chemicals): Frequently
• Atmospheric conditions (fumes, odors, dust, mists, gases or poor ventilation): Frequently
• Oils (air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids): Occasionally
• Air particulates / contaminants (worker is required to wear respirator): Occasionally