Summer Maintenance Associate (Seasonal Position)

Description The Summer Maintenance Associate performs essential cleaning, repair, and upkeep tasks for facilities, grounds, or equipment during the summer season, ensuring compliance with GMPs, food safety standards, and OSHA regulations. Job Summary The Summer Maintenance Associate performs essential cleaning, repair, and upkeep tasks for facilities, grounds, or equipment during the summer season, ensuring compliance with GMPs, food safety standards, and OSHA regulations. General Duties and Responsibilities Assists in maintaining outdoor areas, operating outdoor machinery safely. Perform minor carpentry and painting repairs on buildings. Follow sanitary design principles when repairing or modifying food-contact and non-food-contact equipment. Ensure that maintenance activities do not compromise product integrity or contamination controls. Use hand tools, power tools, and diagnostic devices effectively and safely. Assist in maintaining spare parts inventory and notifying supervisors of parts or tools needed. Work closely with production, sanitation, and quality assurance teams to ensure maintenance work supports overall operational goals. Requirements Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic systems. Ability to read and interpret technical manuals, blueprints, and schematics. Familiarity with food safety and sanitation practices in regulated environments preferred. Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and work at heights or in confined spaces. Competencies / Skills Able to troubleshoot and resolve equipment issues quickly and effectively. Comfortable working with a variety of tools and technical systems. Maintains high standards of cleanliness, safety, and precision in all tasks. Works well with other departments to achieve shared goals and minimize downtime. Takes ownership of assigned tasks and follows through to completion. Understands how maintenance activities impact product safety and quality. Physical Demands The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodation may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, sit, and walk. The employee is occasionally required to lift up to 40 pounds on their own, use hands to grasp or handle objects, reach with hands and arms, stoop, talk, and hear. Able to perform physical labor continually and stand for extended periods. Disclaimer The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people in this position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required from personnel. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside their normal responsibilities as needed. #J-18808-Ljbffr