Maintenance Tech / Factory Setting

The Maintenance Technician must perform the duties as outlined in the job description in addition to their regular work assignments, which comply with the Company's policies and procedures, and laws to create a cooperative safe, respectful, and quality work environment.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for repairing, installing, and maintaining equipment, machinery, building, and facilities.
• Demonstrate leadership while functioning as a team player.
• This position meets the primary duties and responsibilities as outlined.
• Maintains a strong commitment and support of Company's global food safety initiative.
• Follow and understand standards for food safety and food quality production reflected in SQF as well as the regulations of major vendors and governmental agencies.
• Follows and understands proper Good Hygiene, Safe Work Practices, and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s), to aide in providing a safe quality product.
• Responsible for reporting any potential contamination and suspicious activity to a Supervisor or Manager immediately.
• Responsible for reporting food safety and quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate action.
• Works directly with the Maintenance Manager and other mechanics to troubleshoot and repair equipment and infrastructure.
• Evaluates and recommends improvements in methods, procedures and processes.
• Performs PM’s and lubrication as needed.
• Clean or lubricate shafts, bearings, gears, or other parts of machinery.
• Follow Preventative Maintenance Program.
• Ensures plant machinery is operating at peak efficiency, repair equipment and perform various preventive maintenance operations.
• Assist in training of Maintenance/Engineering personnel on plant equipment.
• Complete requests for repairs and installations; establish time schedules that least Interfere with production operations.
• Request maintenance materials and parts that are needed to ensure the maintenance of inventory updated by Maintenance Manager.
• Responsible for alerting the Maintenance Manager of any unusual occurrence and/or damage that have taken place or that may occur in the facility.
• Analyze requests and diagnose projects to determine nature and scope of project, as well as, cause and corrective action required.
• Conduct Heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems and boiler operations checks.
• Coordinate building and grounds repair and maintenance, structural changes, and any other building and grounds maintenance related activities with production; prioritize projects.
• Analyze and evaluate building maintenance problems.
• Make recommendations to management on building and grounds improvements, needed repairs, new equipment, and plant layout.
• Ensure the completion and maintenance of all necessary paperwork, logs, reports and documentation.
• Ensure compliance with all safety and quality regulations and maintain clean and orderly work areas.
• Ensure all tools and equipment are taken from line prior to start up, re clean, and /or re-startup from mechanical breakdown.
• Quickly responds to Production line calls so Production personnel know the status of their machinery and repairs.
• Operates and observes machinery in order to test their performance, listens to their sounds to locate causes of trouble.
• Troubleshoots and repairs Production department electrical equipment.
• Adjusts functional parts of machinery and control equipment to make them work more efficient.
• Dismantles machinery to gain access to and remove/repair defective parts.
• Inspects some used and new parts to determine changes in dimensional requirements and to detect imperfections.
• Responsibilities include mechanical, plumbing, electrical and pneumatic systems, grounds and security.
• Efficiently tracks daily work and time spent on each job and correctly summarizes the time spent on each work category at day’s end.
• Communicates with production management regarding the status of repairs and completion of work orders.
• Supports production as needed.
• Ability to identify complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Skills:

• Attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Written communication skills.
• Proactive.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Basic IT skills.
• Team working.
• Time management.

Education: Minimum High School Diploma required.