Position Title: Maintenance Technician
Wage: $25.00 - $30.00 per hour
Shift: 3rd
Hours: 10:45pm - 7:15am (Mon-Fri + rotating weekends)
Join a dynamic manufacturing team where you’ll operate, maintain, and optimize equipment in a high-quality production environment. This company values precision, efficiency, and safety, and offers opportunities to contribute to continuous improvement initiatives while consistently meeting production goals. This is a Maintenance role for a company in Fredericksburg, IA.
Maintenance Technician Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Perform routine preventative maintenance, per work orders, to ensure that machines run smoothly, building systems operate efficiently, and the physical building conditions do not deteriorate
- Complete daily, weekly, and monthly checklists on building equipment maintenance and maintain records of scheduled procedures
- Diagnose mechanical problems and determine how to correct them, check blueprints, repair manuals, or parts catalogs as needed
- Inspect drives, motors, and belts, check fluid levels, replace filters, or perform other maintenance actions on checklists
- Dismantle devices to access and remove defective parts, using hoists, cranes, hand tools, and power tools
- Clean and lubricate shafts, bearing, gears, and other parts of machinery
- Work with engineers to order, cut, assemble, and weld mezzanines, catwalks, and associated stairs
- May operate a computer which controls and monitors mechanical equipment and utility systems
- Maintain the upkeep of the building by doing repairs and renovations
- Obtain estimates for supplies and repair parts
- Maintain forklifts, ammonia cooling systems, steam system, pump systems, electrical system, and boiler system
- Notify managers concerning the need for major repairs or additions to building operating systems
- Comply with all GMP’s and Food Safety guidelines
- Follow plant safety rules and wear appropriate safety equipment
- Attend all Plant, Quality and Safety Trainings
Maintenance Technician Requirements:
- Candidates *MUST HAVE* a proven track record of several years of solid work history. Please include details of your work experience on your resume
- High School Diploma or GED
- At least 1-3 years of Maintenance experience
- Mechanical experience
- Basic understanding of electrical, plumbing, welding (MIG & TIG) and fabrication
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to troubleshoot machinery
- Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and work orders
- Ability to work independently and prioritize multiple tasks
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