About This Role
This role is primarily responsible for the assembly, installation, disassembly, repair, alignment, and reassembly of specialty or heavy machinery and equipment. The millwright will also assist with equipment relocation, troubleshooting mechanical issues, and fabricating necessary tools, blocks, or anchor points.
Responsibilities
- Install and maintain machinery and equipment using hoists, lift trucks, hand tools, and power tools
- Insert shims, adjust tension on nuts and bolts; position parts using hand tools and measuring instruments, to set specified clearances between moving and stationary parts
- Align machines and equipment, using hoists, jacks, hand tools, squares, rules, micrometers, levels, lasers, and plumb bobs
- Level and establish centerline, using straightedge, levels, and transit
- Shrink-fit bushings, sleeves, rings, liners, gears, and wheels to specified items, using portable gas heating equipment
- Dismantle machinery and equipment for shipment to installation site, usually performing installation and maintenance work as part of team
- Construct foundation for machines, using hand tools and building materials such as wood, cement, grout and/or steel
- Replace defective parts of machine or adjust clearances and alignment of moving parts, adjust equipment to ensure optimal performance and replace worn, damaged, or defective mechanical parts
- Ensure assigned work is understood prior to commencing
- Use Pre-Task Plans as required
- Comply with standards and procedures of MEI's Health and Safety Manual and Occupational Health and Safety Regulations
- Complete housekeeping duties in assigned area or project area daily and/or when required
- Complete assigned work within given timeframe and according to specifications
- Signal or verbally direct workers engaged in hoisting and moving loads, in order to ensure safety of workers and materials
- Test rigging to ensure safety and reliability
- Attach loads to rigging to provide support or prepare them for moving, using hand and power tools
- Select gear such as cables, pulleys, and winches, according to load weights and sizes, facilities, and work schedules
- Control movement of heavy equipment through narrow openings or confined spaces, using chain falls, gin poles, gallows frames, and other equipment
- Tilt, dip, and turn suspended loads to maneuver over, under, and/or around obstacles, using multi-point suspension techniques
- Install ground rigging for yarding lines, attaching chokers to logs and then to the lines
- Align, level, and anchor machinery
- Fabricate, set up, and repair rigging, supporting structures, hoists, and pulling gear, using hand and power tools
