Maintenance Technician
Built on Experience. Built for Skill. Built for You.
Keel was formed by bringing together three industry leaders combining generations of hands-on expertise in steel fabrication, shipbuilding, aerospace, and defense manufacturing.
That means when you join Keel, you’re joining a team backed by decades of proven craftsmanship and real-world results.
We build ships, defense systems, aerospace components, and heavy steel structures that serve critical missions — and we do it with pride.
Your Mission:
As a Maintenance Technician for Keel Midwest, you will be responsible for repairing and maintaining machinery and equipment such as engines, motors, pneumatic tools, conveyor systems, and production machines and equipment.
Explore the Depth of the Role:
- Maintain, clean, lubricate, repair and perform preventive maintenance to production machinery.
- Cleans up and ensures equipment is ready for production.
- Troubleshoot electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical systems.
- Maintains fixtures/equipment to minimize downtime.
- Diagnose repair issues.
- Maintains physical structure of fixtures and equipment.
- Dismantles devices to gain access to and remove defective parts.
- Repairs or replaces defective parts.
- Operates cutting torch to cut metal parts.
- Repairs or replaces gauges, valves, pressure regulators, and related equipment.
- Maintains facility's utilities/support equipment: air, water, drain, steam, hydraulic, electric, etc.
- Ensure personal safety and the safety of team members; understand how machines work and how to operate them safely; knowledge of emergency stops; and utilization of personal protective equipment.
- Maintain clean work environment.
- Perform routine cleaning of equipment and general housekeeping at and around maintenance shop.
- Collects and handles solid and hazardous waste generated at the work site and deposits separately in designated containers.
- All other duties as assigned.