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Maintenance Technician

The Maintenance Technician position performs highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain production and facility equipment in alignment with safety, preventive, predictive, and productive maintenance systems. This role supports achieving the site’s business goals and objectives by ensuring continuous and efficient operations. We are seeking a skilled technician with a strong background in automation and experience in a fast-paced food industry environment. This critical role ensures smooth operations by maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving machinery and systems to meet production goals. A flexible schedule is required, with the ability to work across both 1st and 2nd shifts as needed to provide continuous support and minimize production downtime.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Ensure compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and the proper use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at all times.
  • Ensure the effective execution of maintenance activities in all aspects of the facility to assure productivity and wash quality.
  • Perform mechanical skills, including mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic troubleshooting, and repair of production machines.
  • Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
  • Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test, and make necessary adjustments.
  • Perform regular preventive maintenance on machines, equipment, and plant facilities.
  • Use a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters, and material handling equipment in performing duties.
  • Comply with safety regulations and maintain clean and orderly work areas.
  • Develop and implement maintenance processes to maintain proper equipment and machinery functionality, as well as cost efficiency; responsible for spare part control inventory to ensure the equipment maintenance process.
  • Support production needs by collaborating with team members and other departments frequently.
  • Weld, fabricate, and repair various machines.
  • Analyze mechanical parts required for maintenance performance, equipment usage, materials, and personnel.
  • Support all current equipment and new machinery and process introductions.
  • Perform other duties deemed necessary.

Qualifications

  • High school diploma/GED. 

  • Completion of a craft apprenticeship (like Millwright), or an equivalent number of years of education and production maintenance experience. 

  • 4+ years of manufacturing experience; electric, electronic, hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, and industrial skills with PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) programming experience. 

 

Qualifications include: 

  • Technical Capacity. 

  • Ethical Conduct. 

  • Communication Proficiency. 

  • Results Driven. 

  • Leadership. 

Working conditions

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions: 

  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather); work near moving mechanical parts; work in high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outdoor weather conditions; extreme cold (non-weather); extreme heat (non-weather); risk of electrical shock; risk of radiation and vibration. 

Physical requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. This position is highly active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. 

  • Position type and expected hours of work: This is a full-time position. Hours of work are 5 days during the week / 40 hours per week. A flexible schedule and rotating shifts may be required. Weekend work will be required as job duties demand. 

EEOC

Eternity Systems is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices for candidates and team members.   Eternity Systems will not discriminate against any team member or applicant for employment because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or service member status, marital status, citizenship status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. This policy applies to all areas of employment including but not limited to recruitment, selection, hiring, training, assignment, re-assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfer, lay-off, discipline, and termination. Eternity Systems respects all of its team members and requests their assistance in maintaining a work environment free of all forms of unlawful discrimination.