Maintenance Technician

Maintenance Technician

The line maintenance technician's responsibility is to perform mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and electronic repair and preventive maintenance on all plant equipment and structure of the facility. Key accountabilities and outcomes include observing all OSHA and facility safety rules and regulations, following all established good manufacturing practices, troubleshooting, diagnosis, and repair of mechanical and electrical failures, assuring preventive maintenance program is conducted on all plant equipment, and providing emergency unscheduled repairs of production equipment using mechanical and electrical skills/experience to execute repairs in a timely manner to minimize downtime.

Duties may involve pipe fitting; boiler making; insulating; welding; machining; carpentry; installing; aligning; and balancing new equipment; and repairing buildings, floors, freezers, or stairs. Employee regularly requires standing, reaching, bending, and moving about the facility. Vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. Hearing ability to meet manufacturing facility safety requirements.

Knowledge, skills, and experience include a high school diploma or GED required, technical school diploma with concentration in mechatronics and industrial instrumentation preferred, ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair mechanical and electrical failures for equipment like horizontal mixers, dough sheeting lines, proofers, conveyors, spiral freezers, etc., ability to read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service including hard wire and PLC electrical drawings and mechanical blueprints, ability to read and understand related diagrams and symbols to troubleshoot, repair, and maintain relay/sequential logic circuitry on a wide variety of equipment, ability to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain industrial drives of varying types; VFDs, AC, DC, servo, stepper, etc., ability to troubleshoot, repair, and maintain low voltage (0 VAC/VDC -- 51 VAC/VDC), proportional, integral and derivative (PID) control loops that support a wide variety of control processes such as temp., pressure, liquid level, motor, etc. controls, ability to install and wire instrumentation such as pH probes, level transmitters, flow switches, viscometers, conductivity sensors and other instruments, a high degree of judgment with the ability to look beyond the basic task list on the work order and a high level of attention to details is required, knowledge of power and hand tools, ability to lift 50 pounds, ability to communicate in a professional manner with all employee levels at the plant as mechanics will provide training for newly acquired equipment, and the aptitude and willingness to keep pace with an ever-changing environment.

Compensation is in accordance with state law, the rate or range provided is a reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, shift differential, and location. Hourly rate $40.00 - $49.00.