Hydraulic Cylinder Technician
Job Locations
US-SC-West Columbia
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2025-3135
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# of Openings |
1
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Type |
Full-Time
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Overview
The Hydraulic Cylinder Technician assumes a high level of responsibility early. Successful Hydraulic Cylinder Technicians are fast learners, self-motivated and independent workers. Hydraulic Technicians receive intensive training in troubleshooting, technical procedures, and safety. Blanchard Machinery Company is committed to fostering a high-performance work culture with challenging work opportunities that inspire high quality results. Some of the benefits of joining our team are:
Competitive Pay.
- Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401K, profit sharing, generous PTO and paid holidays, uniforms, and much more.
- Exposure to world-class CAT training and development.
- A friendly and supportive work environment.
- Continuous exposure to learning and new technologies.
- Opportunities for advancement.
Responsibilities
- Contributes to a positive work environment and promotes the vision, mission and values of BMC at all times.
- Completes all job responsibilities in a safe manner, promotes and champions a safe and healthy work environment.
- Responsibilities include maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of all types of hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders.
- Skill-level requirements vary from basic troubleshooting and preventive maintenance to component replacement.
- Requires basic working knowledge of equipment operation and associated operating systems.
- Requires basic understanding of electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic circuits/drawings/prints.
- Ability to use diagnostic equipment (i.e., Cat ET, CAT-SIS).
- Familiarization of electronic cables, connections and sensors.
- Maintain, diagnose and repair a variety of shop equipment including cylinder bench, cylinder honing machines and cylinder testing bench.
- Determine proper repair procedures for all assigned work orders.
- Performs inspections required by company.
- Disassemble, inspect, determine parts requirements, install and/or replace new or reconditioned repair parts to factory specifications.
- Perform operational tests on hydraulic cylinders for proper operation.
- Ensures total customer service.
- Operates lifting devices.
- Must complete proper paperwork as assigned.
- Preparing parts requisitions, timecards, part returns, accurate and complete service reports and other necessary reports and forms.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma required.
- 3+ years of experience maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing repairing hydraulic cylinders and related attachments preferred.
- Shift work, weekends and/or 24-hour call may be required.
- Knowledge of troubleshooting techniques and proper repair procedures is required.
- Must be able to read and interpret electrical and hydraulic schematics, operating and maintenance service manuals.
- Organizational and time management skills required. Must have the ability to set and keep priorities and professionally handle the stress associated with dealing with a fast paced industry and deadlines.
- Must be a Team player that is enthusiastic and hard working with the ability to complete work with minimal supervision.
- High degree of interpersonal skills with excellent written and oral communication skills is required.
- Must possess the personal discipline to establish the proper image as a representative of Blanchard with the ability to meet and work with the customer in a professional manner.
- Strong problem solving skills and detailed oriented with a high level of accuracy.
- Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Working Conditions
- The physical environment requires the employee to work primarily inside (non-climate controlled) throughout the day.
- Required to use personal protective equipment to prevent exposure to injury and/or hazardous materials.
- Requires standing, stooping, squatting, pushing, pulling, twisting, turning, lifting.
- Physical use of a broad variety of tools and machines in order to maintain, troubleshoot and repair equipment.
- Must be able to lift varied weight up to 50 lbs. unassisted.
- Seeing, reading, and writing to complete job responsibilities.
- Use of computers and other forms of technology to complete job responsibilities.
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