Maintenance Technician

Join our client’s team as a Maintenance Technician in Vernon County, Wisconsin, supporting a food manufacturing plant. This multi-craft role covers mechanical, electrical, controls, and facilities maintenance to keep production, packaging, and utility systems running safely and efficiently. Manufacturing machinery experience required! What you’ll do:

• Night shift, 6pm-6am, Wednesday, Thursday and every other weekend (Fri, Sat, Sun)
• Troubleshoot and repair automated equipment including packaging, metal detection, case packing, and palletizing
• Calibrate and document sensors and instrumentation critical to food safety compliance
• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance
• Ensure safety by following all company policies, including safety rules, procedures, Lock-out / Tag-out procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), personal safety standards, food safety standards as well as OSHA standards
• Participates in Continuous Improvement, also provides suggestions to improve processes, and participates in team projects
• Support facility maintenance including safe operation and maintenance of steam boilers, water chillers, cooling towers, well pumps, HVAC, and various other plant utility equipment

What we’re looking for:

• Industrial maintenance experience, preferably in food/beverage or sanitary environments
• Strong skills with PLCs, VFDs, instrumentation, 480 VAC power, pneumatics, hydraulics, and schematic reading
• Work environment includes onsite conditions with temperature variations, noise, chemicals, and pressurized systems.
• Strong mechanical background in maintaining, troubleshooting, and installing bearings, seals, and gaskets.
• Strong mechanical background in a production setting; troubleshooting and repairing gearboxes, sprocket/chains, belts, clutches, bearings, and brakes.
• Strong plus if trained and experienced in compressed air systems, basic plumbing/piping, Boilers, and Hydraulics.

Why consider this opportunity? You’ll play a key role in maintaining critical food manufacturing operations with a focus on safety and regulatory compliance.