Maintenance Technician (Cypress, TX)

About Nimble

Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to power fast, efficient and economical commerce. We’re training robot AGI to power a proprietary generalist supply chain superhumanoid, the first robot in the world capable of performing thousands of tasks across the supply chain. We’ve raised over $220M at over $1B valuation and formed a strategic alliance with FedEx to build a national network of autonomous warehouses capable of generating many billions in annual revenue. We are a hardcore and obsessed team of the world’s best engineers and operators. If you are obsessed with your craft, enjoy a high-intensity and fast moving high impact environment, are super high agency in getting hard things done and want to be part of building the world’s most legendary robotics company at the most pivotal moment in history, we want to work with you.

We are on a mission to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial. We will accomplish this by training robot AGI to invent and build the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – powered by generalist superhumanoids.

Our founding team comes from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon and our board of directors include famed robotics and AI legends including Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanford’s AI Lab), Marc Raibert (founder of Boston Dynamics), and Sebastian Thrun (founder of GoogleX, Waymo; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles).

Let’s be legendary.

Nimble's Core Values:

1) Be relentlessly resourceful - Find a way to make the impossible, possible. Do whatever it takes.

2) Be legendary - Be the best at whatever it is that you do. Leave your mark. Motivate and inspire others.

3) Be humble - Leave your ego behind. Have a growth mindset. Learn and improve yourself every day.

4) Be dependable - Take ownership and deliver. Be loyal to your team and Nimble's mission.

About the Role

Nimble Robotics is seeking an experienced Maintenance Technician for an e-commerce fulfillment facility. Under general supervision, the technician performs critical corrective and preventive maintenance on mechanical equipment, material handling equipment, automated equipment, tools, buildings and grounds. This is a maintenance and repair position that is crucial in the daily operations of the fulfillment center.

Responsibilities

• Work with management and lead technicians to prioritize daily tasks and assignments.
• Effect repairs on machines, tools, building infrastructure, and other grounds equipment and resources.
• Inspect, evaluate, and repair a variety of mechanical equipment.
• Regularly uses assigned software to enter work done on work orders, and to track daily tasks & assignments.
• Communicate with team members on site and abroad to gather necessary information for accurate repairs.
• Maintain accurate records of work performed, parts used, and time taken for tasks.
• Read and interpret specifications, diagrams, manuals and other documentation such as standard operating procedures created by engineering and management.
• Confer with staff to determine equipment problems; suggest methods of minimizing such problems in an operational setting.  
• Help to maintain inventory levels of supplies, tools, and replacement parts. Working with management and distribution to ensure stock is replaced in a timely manner.
• Follow appropriate safety procedures and work to applicable codes and guidelines, including making recommendations for improvements.
• Attend training and safety sessions as assigned. 

Basic Qualifications

• Equivalent to graduation from high school and three years of experience in the maintenance and repair of a variety of equipment, structures, and facilities such as found in similar industrial settings
• Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Write reports, correspondence and procedures.
• Effectively respond to questions from staff, other departments’ managers, and technical representatives. 
• Must be able to use computer systems including but are not limited to: Google Suite, Slack, Microsoft Visual Studio, command prompts, Click Up, and other various software applications. 

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to recognize, mitigate, and correct unsafe conditions.  
• Ability to interact with others (co-workers, supervisors, subordinates) in a professional manner; to accept constructive criticism from supervisors, equals, and subordinates; to work as a team member or independently as needed; to prioritize assignments and meet deadlines; to prevent personal problems from adversely impacting your work or that of others around you; to arrive at work as scheduled and to work the shift hours as scheduled. 
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability, fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations

Additional Requirements

• Regularly required to use hand tools, to reach with hands and arms into tight spaces, and to talk or hear in person or on the telephone or radio
• Hearing is frequently required for equipment operation analysis 
• Required to work and walk at elevated heights, using fall protection equipment.
• Frequently required to stand, walk, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl to access necessary equipment.
• Occasionally required to smell, using odors to determine process or equipment problems.  
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 20 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 40 pounds, and occasionally be required to lift and/or move more than 50 pounds.  
• Close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to work on-call/stand-by, overtime, weekends and holidays as needed
• Work location is in a warehouse environment with variable temperature including cold, heat and humidity
• Exposure to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; manufacturing conditions; heat; risk of electric shock; and vibration

$30 - $40 an hour

Culture

We embrace challenges and strive to make the impossible possible each day. We’re not in this to do what’s easy or to be mediocre. We want to create something legendary and leave our mark on the world. We’re ambitious, we’re gritty, we’re humble and we’re relentlessly resourceful in pursuit of our goals. If this sounds like you then you might be a great fit!

Press

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210311005117/en/Nimble-%C2%AE-Robotics-Raises-

https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/11/nimble-robotics-scores-50m-for-its-fulfillment-automation-tech/

https://multichannelmerchant.com/operations/nimble-robotics-takes-in-50m-adds-ai-luminaries/

Nimble Robotics, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state, federal or local laws.