Production Technician III

Production Technician III

The Production Technician III role is essential for supporting the operations team and is responsible for planning and performing highly diversified duties to include installing, moving, repairing and preventive maintenance on production equipment throughout the facility. Perform 5S and Lean manufacturing activities including material handling improvements, production line configuration, and safety procedures.

This role must use and exemplify industry leading maintenance practices and methodologies to increase equipment safety, uptime, and performance.

Duties and responsibilities include championing company and industry standard safety policies and procedures, developing and executing inspections and preventive/predictive maintenance tasks on production and process utility equipment, diagnosing and repairing production and process utility equipment deficiencies and failures, using continuous improvements tools and methods to improve equipment reliability, championing and leading production equipment rebuilds, line moves, installations, setups, and calibrations, reading and interpreting equipment work orders, manuals, assembly diagrams, electrical schematics, and P&ID's to perform required maintenance and service, and managing assigned planned work, unplanned failures, and work orders in a high-paced, fluid work environment.

Qualifications include five (5) plus years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing setting, experience using lockout tagout, job hazard analysis, hot work permits, confined space, etc., experience working in a food processing environment and familiar with USDA, FDA, and SQF policies and procedures, high school diploma or GED, and extensive knowledge of OSHA safety regulations, environmental and food safety regulations, preventive maintenance inspections and repair, diagnosis and repair of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, and a multi-meter, infrared thermometer, and megohmmeter.

Physical demands include occasionally sitting and frequently lifting heavy items, repair work requires excellent hand and finger dexterity used for wrenches, hand tools and other shop equipment, ability to operate various pieces of equipment, ability to stand, sit, walk, bend, reach, ability to push/pull, ability to lift/carry, ability to grasp tools, and ability to perform repetitive motion: wrenches and hand tools.

Working conditions include food processing temperatures of <=38 degrees F, occasionally exposed to wet, hot, extreme cold and/or humid conditions; and moving mechanical parts and may be required to work in confined spaces, non-traditional business hours including evenings, nights, weekends, holidays and on-call, occasionally required to travel to other Operating Companies or the corporate office as business needs dictate (i.e. training, business continuation, etc.), occasionally exposed to high, precarious places and confined spaces, occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, and noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.