Overview
Looking for a stable, long-term career where your skills are valued? This direct-hire opportunity with a growing food manufacturer offers competitive pay of $22–$33 per hour, a strong benefits package, and the chance to grow your technical expertise while building your future with an established employer. Start with first-shift training before transitioning to second shift and take the next step in your maintenance career!
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
- Competitive Pay: Earn $22.00–$33.00 per hour, depending on your experience and technical skills.
- Predictable Training Path: Start on 1st Shift for approximately 6-months of training before transitioning to 2nd Shift.
- Full-Time Stability: Work 40 hours per week, with opportunities for overtime.
- Strong Benefits Package: Access medical, dental, vision, and additional employer-provided benefits.
- Career Growth Potential: Expand your technical expertise and build a long-term career with an established food manufacturer.
- Direct Hire Opportunity: Exclusive access through Excelsior Staffing, giving you a direct path into a growing company.
What You’ll Do as an Industrial Maintenance Technician:
- Troubleshoot and repair production equipment by identifying mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and control-system issues.
- Perform preventive maintenance, routine inspections, equipment adjustments, and repairs to help reduce downtime.
- Maintain and troubleshoot packaging machinery, conveyor systems, pumps, sensors, gauges, and other production equipment.
- Use technical manuals, equipment drawings, and electrical documentation to diagnose problems and determine appropriate repairs.
- Assist with automated equipment, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), variable frequency drives (VFDs), and related control systems within your training and authorization.
- Complete maintenance work orders and document repairs, preventive maintenance activities, and parts usage in a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
- Support production operations by helping resolve equipment issues and assisting with equipment adjustments and changeovers as needed.
- Perform basic facility maintenance, including mechanical, plumbing, metalworking, and building-related repairs as appropriate.
- Keep tools, workspaces, and equipment clean and organized while following food manufacturing sanitation and quality standards.
- Follow safety procedures, including Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), machine guarding, and proper personal protective equipment (PPE) use.
- Communicate equipment problems, repair updates, and potential safety or food safety concerns to the appropriate team members.
Skills and Experience
What You’ll Bring as a Preferred Candidate:
- High school diploma or equivalent + hands-on maintenance experience preferrably in a Food manufacturing environment.
- Strong mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic troubleshooting skills, including experience with production equipment and advanced control systems.
- Familiarity with packaging machinery, conveyors, pumps, sensors, PLCs, and VFDs.
- Ability to read technical manuals and equipment drawings and follow safety procedures.
- Knowledge of preventive maintenance and CMMS/work order systems; Limble experience is a plus.
- Understanding of GMP, sanitation, and food safety practices.
- Basic plumbing, metalworking, or facility maintenance skills; relevant technical certifications are a plus.
- Strong safety awareness, attention to detail, and teamwork skills.
- Ability to work in a wet, non-climate-controlled environment; lift up to 50 lbs. and perform physical tasks throughout the shift.
- Flexibility to work overtime, weekends, and holidays as needed and transition to second shift after approximately six months of first-shift training.
Who We're Looking For:
- Dependable, hands-on maintenance professional who enjoys troubleshooting complex industrial equipment and solving problems in a production environment.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Additional benefits offered by the employer
- Full-time hours with potential overtime
- Opportunity to build a long-term career in industrial maintenance
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