Summary: Primary responsibility is to repair and maintain all plant equipment and company assets.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Locates sources of problems by observing mechanical devices in operation; listening for problems; using precision measuring and testing instruments.
• Fabricates needed repair parts and other items by using maintenance shop machinery and equipment.
• Ensures reliable operation of machinery and plant equipment by properly completing preventive maintenance requirements as directed by Management, work order instructions, manufacturer instructions and technical manuals. Assists the Maintenance Management staff to develop and improve current preventive maintenance instructions and practices.
• Understands and adheres to the principles of the predictive maintenance programs, as established. Assists the Maintenance Management staff to develop and improve current predictive maintenance programs and practices.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with all directives, procedures, rules, and regulations related to personal safety, manufacturing practices and protection of the products. Offers suggestions on improving GMP related activities, when issues are identified.
• Properly completes maintenance records as required to document the maintenance process. These include, but are not limited to: Work Orders, Hot Work Permits, Confines space entry Permits, Clean Tags, High Care Intervention forms and Inventory use sheets. Uses computerized records to document maintenance activities.
• Assists maintenance management staff in maintaining adequate spare equipment, parts, and supply inventories by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed equipment, parts, and supplies; placing requests for needed equipment and identifying and up-channeling shortages, when noted.
• Follows all food safety procedures and practices to promote our food safety culture.

Minimum Qualifications:

• This position requires one or more of the following:
  • 1-year technical certificate and 2, or more years of verifiable experience.
  • A 2-year technical degree in an industrial maintenance or engineering field.
  • 3 or more years of verifiable industrial maintenance experience.
  • Advanced Apprentice of 3 or more years and a Journeyman level Tradesmen.
• Should have a broad spectrum of maintenance related skills that include, but are limited to carpentry, mechanical machinery repair, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, building maintenance, mechanical and electrical troubleshooting, welding and metal fabrication. Must be able and willing to learn new skills and continuously improve on current skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong mechanical skills and strong problem-solving skills
• Industrial Food Manufacturing Experience

Physical Demands: Frequently required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and perform overhead work. Frequently required to sit. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50+ pounds.

Work Environment: Frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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