Industrial Refrigeration Mechanic III

Job Description

Job Description:\n\n \n \n Company: Bronco Wine CompanyReporting to: Facility Maintenance ManagerTravel Requirements: 7–10%, based on business needs, including travel between company facilities as assignedFLSA Status: Non-ExemptEmployment Category: Full-Time RegularPay Range: $30.23–$38.00 per hourLocation: Onsite, Ceres, CAShift: First Shift. Occasional overtime, weekend, holiday, and on-call work may be required based on business and production needs.\n Bronco Wine Company is seeking an Industrial Refrigeration Mechanic III based in Ceres, CA. This advanced-level maintenance position is responsible for troubleshooting, repairing, maintaining, operating, and improving industrial refrigeration systems, winery processing equipment, facility systems, utilities, electrical systems, controls, and other critical plant equipment.\n The Industrial Refrigeration Mechanic III applies advanced mechanical, electrical, controls, refrigeration, HVAC/R, and utility knowledge across winery operations. Systems may include processing and production equipment, material-handling systems, facility infrastructure, industrial ammonia refrigeration, HVAC/R, electrical systems, instrumentation and controls, compressed air, water, boilers, steam, sulfur dioxide (SO₂), nitrogen, fire protection, and wastewater systems.\n This position works with minimal supervision on complex maintenance activities and serves as a senior technical resource for the Maintenance Department. The Industrial Refrigeration Mechanic III provides technical guidance and hands-on support to Mechanic I and Mechanic II employees, supports preventive and predictive maintenance and reliability initiatives, and identifies when additional support is needed from the Chief Mechanic, contractors, vendors, Engineering, or Maintenance leadership.\n Bronco Wine Company was founded in 1973. Our family-owned company strives to continue and improve upon being vertically integrated, from the vineyard to the table, focusing on crafting quality wines for every table. Our family’s resilience and sustained growth will continue to be fostered through stewardship of family, valued employees, respected partners, and future generations.ESSENTIAL DUTIES:\n \n Operate, maintain, diagnose, and repair industrial ammonia refrigeration, SO₂, boiler, and utility systems at an advanced level.\n Serve as a senior technical resource within the Maintenance Department for assigned industrial refrigeration and utility systems.\n Perform advanced troubleshooting, inspection, installation, repair, and preventive and predictive maintenance on winery processing equipment, production systems, conveyors, pumps, motors, gearboxes, drives, material-handling equipment, and related machinery.\n Diagnose complex mechanical, electrical, controls, instrumentation, refrigeration, HVAC/R, and utility-system problems and determine appropriate corrective actions.\n Troubleshoot electrical systems ranging from 24 volts through 480 volts, including motors, starters, contactors, breakers, fuses, variable-frequency drives, sensors, controls, and related components, within applicable training and authorization.\n Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain programmable logic controllers, instrumentation, sensors, control devices, and other industrial-automation systems.\n Perform major equipment repairs, overhauls, installations, modifications, alignments, and equipment improvements.\n Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain industrial ammonia-refrigeration and HVAC/R equipment, including compressors, condensers, evaporators, pumps, valves, controls, and related components.\n Diagnose ammonia-refrigeration performance issues involving suction and discharge pressures, temperature, refrigerant flow, oil management, system levels, condenser performance, evaporator performance, and related operating conditions.\n Perform and support authorized refrigeration-system pump-downs, startups, shutdowns, defrost operations, equipment changeovers, and other system-operating activities.\n Provide advanced technical support for critical winery utility systems, including compressed air, wells and water systems, boilers and steam, SO₂, nitrogen, fire-protection systems, wastewater systems, pumps, valves, piping, and associated controls.\n Monitor equipment and system-operating conditions and identify opportunities to improve safety, reliability, efficiency, maintainability, and performance.\n Support equipment startups, shutdowns, commissioning activities, major repairs, and equipment-modification projects.\n Assist in developing and improving preventive and predictive maintenance strategies for critical equipment and systems.\n Conduct root-cause troubleshooting and recommend corrective actions intended to reduce recurring failures, downtime, and operational interruptions.\n Read and interpret electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, piping and instrumentation diagrams, refrigeration diagrams, equipment manuals, and other technical documentation.\n Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and hands-on support to Mechanic I and Mechanic II employees.\n Assist with the training and development of maintenance personnel in mechanical, electrical, controls, refrigeration, utilities, and equipment-maintenance practices.\n Identify conditions requiring specialized expertise and communicate recommendations to the Chief Mechanic, Facility Maintenance Assistant Manager, vendors, contractors, Engineering, or other appropriate resources.\n Maintain accurate work orders, maintenance records, inspection information, and other required documentation within the computerized maintenance management system.\n Follow established maintenance, safety, environmental, operational, and documentation procedures.\n Support a culture of safety, reliability, continuous improvement, teamwork, and accountability.\n Travel to other company facilities as assigned to provide maintenance, refrigeration, utility, project, or technical support.\n Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned, consistent with the position’s purpose and operational needs.\n JOB REQUIREMENTS:\n Minimum Qualifications:\n \n High school diploma or GED equivalent; in lieu of a high school diploma or GED, relevant work experience, trade-school education, apprenticeship training, or a combination thereof will be considered.\n Five or more years of industrial-maintenance experience or an equivalent combination of trade-school education, apprenticeship training, directly related education, and relevant experience.\n Demonstrated advanced mechanical-maintenance and troubleshooting experience in a manufacturing, food-processing, winery, or similar industrial environment.\n Demonstrated industrial-refrigeration experience, including working knowledge of ammonia-refrigeration systems, system operation, troubleshooting, and safe-maintenance practices.\n Demonstrated experience troubleshooting industrial electrical systems and controls, including motors, motor controls, variable-frequency drives, programmable logic controllers, sensors, and instrumentation.\n Demonstrated experience troubleshooting and maintaining complex processing or production equipment.\n Experience performing major equipment repairs, overhauls, installations, modifications, and corrective-maintenance activities.\n Ability to safely perform advanced maintenance activities within applicable training, qualification, certification, and authorization requirements.\n Valid driver’s license.\n Reliable transportation.\n Ability to travel approximately 7–10% based on business needs, including travel between company facilities as assigned.\n Ability to work overtime, weekends, holidays, on-call assignments, and outside normal shift hours when required by maintenance, production, project, emergency, or other business needs.\n \n Preferred Qualifications:\n \n Technical-school education, apprenticeship training, or industry certification in industrial maintenance, electrical systems, HVAC/R, refrigeration, controls, or a related trade.\n EPA HVAC/R certification, Refrigerating Engineers and Technicians Association certification, or another applicable refrigeration credential.\n Significant experience with industrial ammonia refrigeration, HVAC/R, and critical utility systems.\n Experience with ammonia-refrigeration startup and shutdown, pump-down procedures, defrost systems, oil management, leak response, and operating-parameter monitoring.\n Experience with compressed air, water systems, pumps, boilers, steam, SO₂, nitrogen, fire-protection systems, wastewater, or similar industrial utility systems.\n Advanced welding, fabrication, pipe-fitting, equipment-installation, or equipment-modification experience.\n Experience providing technical guidance, mentoring, or hands-on training to other maintenance personnel.\n Experience working in a winery, beverage, food-processing, manufacturing, or similarly regulated operating environment.\n Experience using a computerized maintenance management system.\n KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:\n \n Advanced knowledge of mechanical maintenance and troubleshooting for industrial processing and production equipment.\n Knowledge of pumps, motors, gearboxes, conveyors, drives, bearings, mechanical power-transmission systems, and related equipment.\n Knowledge of industrial electrical systems, motor controls, starters, contactors, variable-frequency drives, programmable logic controllers, instrumentation, sensors, and electronic controls.\n Knowledge of winery processing, production, and material-handling equipment and associated mechanical and electrical systems.\n Advanced knowledge of industrial ammonia-refrigeration systems, HVAC/R equipment, refrigeration controls, and related components.\n Knowledge of critical winery utility systems, including compressed air, water, boilers, steam, SO₂, nitrogen, fire protection, and wastewater.\n Ability to troubleshoot complex ammonia-refrigeration systems by evaluating pressures, temperatures, levels, controls, refrigerant flow, compressor operation, oil management, and condenser and evaporator performance.\n Ability to safely perform authorized ammonia-refrigeration maintenance and operating activities and recognize conditions requiring immediate escalation or specialized support.\n Ability to interpret electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, piping and instrumentation diagrams, refrigeration diagrams, equipment manuals, and technical specifications.\n Knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance practices, mechanical-integrity programs, and equipment-reliability principles.\n Knowledge of root-cause analysis and advanced troubleshooting methods.\n Knowledge of lockout/tagout procedures, safe-work practices, applicable electrical requirements, company procedures, and industry standards relevant to assigned work.\n Ability to diagnose system and equipment failures and identify root causes rather than only correcting immediate symptoms.\n Ability to determine appropriate repairs, adjustments, modifications, or replacement needs based on equipment and system conditions.\n Ability to perform major repairs, equipment overhauls, installations, modifications, and advanced troubleshooting with minimal supervision.\n Ability to make sound technical decisions while balancing safety, reliability, production, quality, and cost considerations.\n Ability to provide clear technical guidance and mentorship to Mechanic I and Mechanic II employees.\n Ability to communicate technical information effectively with Maintenance, Production, leadership, vendors, contractors, Engineering, and other business partners.\n Ability to recognize when specialized expertise, vendors, contractors, Engineering, or additional resources are required.\n Ability to recommend improvements that support equipment safety, reliability, efficiency, maintainability, and operational performance.\n Ability to adapt to changing equipment, technology, processes, production priorities, and maintenance requirements.\n PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:\n \n Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, or move tools, parts, equipment, and materials weighing up to 75 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation and/or assistance or appropriate material-handling equipment, as applicable to the assigned task.\n Ability to frequently reach forward, bend, kneel, crouch, stand, and walk while performing maintenance activities, with or without reasonable accommodation.\n Ability to remain on foot for extended periods, with or without reasonable accommodation.\n Ability to occasionally climb stairs and use approved ladders or other access equipment, with or without reasonable accommodation.\n Ability to work at heights and access elevated work areas when required and when appropriately trained, authorized, and equipped, with or without reasonable accommodation.\n Ability to enter and work in confined spaces when required and when appropriately trained, authorized, and equipped, with or without reasonable accommodation.\n Ability to work in awkward or restricted positions and perform physical maintenance activities for extended periods, with or without reasonable accommodation.\n Ability to grasp, handle, manipulate, and operate hand tools, power tools, diagnostic equipment, controls, and equipment components, with or without reasonable accommodation.\n Ability to wear and use required respiratory protection and other assigned personal protective equipment when properly trained, qualified, and required for the assigned work.\n WORK ENVIRONMENT:\n \n Work is performed in indoor and outdoor maintenance, production, utility, warehouse, winery-processing, and other operational areas.\n Work may involve moderate to high noise levels and exposure to machinery, moving equipment, electrical systems, water, steam, dust, chemicals, refrigerants, pressurized systems, heat, cold, and varying weather conditions.\n Work may involve industrial ammonia refrigeration, HVAC/R equipment, boilers, utilities, production equipment, wastewater systems, chemical systems, and related operational hazards.\n Assigned duties may require work in confined spaces, elevated areas, equipment rooms, rooftops, or other challenging maintenance environments when properly trained, authorized, and equipped.\n Employees must follow applicable safety, environmental, lockout/tagout, electrical, refrigeration, confined-space, fall-protection, chemical-handling, emergency-response, and personal protective equipment requirements.\n The position may require overtime, weekend or holiday work, on-call assignments, emergency response, and work outside regular shift hours based on business and production needs.\n Travel between company facilities may be required based on assigned maintenance, project, refrigeration,