Maintenance Technician - Flour Mill - Cheney, WA

Maintenance Technician

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Full-Time, Hourly Pay: $31.26/HR (based on experience) Shift: M-F 7AM-3:30PM with occasional weekends and a rotating on call schedule

Position Summary: We are seeking a hands-on, safety-focused Maintenance Technician to join our team at ADM's flour mill in Cheney, WA. This full-time, hourly role is essential to the day-to-day reliability and safety of our grain operations. The technician performs preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, welding, and larger-scale mechanical projects. This role offers exposure to advanced equipment, critical safety systems, and long-term stability within ADM's operations team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform routine preventative maintenance, inspections, and repairs on facility systems including motors, conveyors, spouts, and drives.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot breakdowns involving mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, or pneumatic systems.
• Carry out equipment-related welding and fabricationexperience with multiple types of welding is preferred.
• Support and execute larger projects, including millwright-level work, such as replacing or installing leg belts, bearings, chutes, and drag conveyor systems.
• Maintain and repair grain-specific systems such as: bucket elevators, drag conveyors, grain legs, and augers sifters, roll stands, spouting, and storage bins.
• Safely use equipment such as forklifts, scissor lifts, chain hoists, welders, torches, and grinders.
• Work in accordance with strict safety protocols, including Lock-Out/Tag-Out (LOTO), confined space entry, fall protection, and grain entrapment prevention.
• Perform maintenance work that may involve working at heights up to 120 feet or in tight and confined spaces.
• Complete accurate documentation of work performed using maintenance logs and CMMS tools.
• Support seasonal equipment transitions and respond to emergency call-ins as needed to minimize downtime.
• Perform duties in areas where exposure to grease, grain dust, and other industrial residues is common and expected.

Tools and Equipment You May Use:

• MIG, Stick, and TIG welders
• Oxy-acetylene torches and plasma cutters
• Electric/pneumatic tools, grinders, multimeters
• Forklifts, scissor lifts, chain hoists
• Belt tracking tools, grain probes, moisture meters

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