Apprentice Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Apprentice Engineer - Industrial Maintenance to join our team at The J.M. Smucker Co. in Emporia, KS.

• Perform a full range of maintenance and engineering assignments using independent judgment to make decisions requiring the application of procedures and practices to specific work situations.
• Repair and maintain machinery and mechanical equipment, such as motors, pneumatic tools, conveyor systems, and production machines and equipment, using hand tools, power tools, and precision-measuring and testing instruments.
• Inspect used parts to determine changes in dimensional requirements, using rules, calipers, micrometers, and other measuring instruments.
• Adjust functional parts of devices and control instruments, using hand tools, levels, plumb bobs, and straightedges.
• Repair or replace defective parts, using hand tools and power tools.
• Install special functional and structural parts in devices, using hand tools.
• Start devices to test their performance.
• Lubricate and clean parts.
• May set up and operate lathe, drill press, grinder, and other metalworking tools to make and repair parts.
• Requisition supplies, materials, tools, machine parts, and other necessary equipment.
• May repair electrical equipment.
• Ensure the proper use, care, and storage of tools and equipment.
• Perform bearing analysis and installation.
• Analyze electrical circuits, wiring diagrams and drawings, and install, repair, calibrate, service or replace electrical devices and systems, and power generation devices to prevent overload using an amp probe, recording meter and various hand, power, and specialty tools.
• Weld various types of metal to repair or fabricate metal assemblies (e.g. racks, shelves, stands for equipment, etc.) using appropriate tools (e.g. cutting torch, arc and gas welder, high-speed disk, grinders, files, etc.).
• Perform preventive maintenance on uninterrupted power supply systems, generators, and air compressors to maintain system operation and reliability to ensure uninterrupted power and continuous air supply to critical facilities, equipment and systems using appropriate hand, power and specialty tools (e.g. hydrometer, voltmeter, amp meter, digital keypad, etc.).
• Analyze electrical circuits, wiring diagrams and drawings, and install, repair, calibrate, service or replace electrical devices and systems, and power generation devices to prevent overload using an amp probe, recording meter and various hand, power, and specialty tools.
• May be required to respond to 24-hour emergency calls for assigned work area to perform emergency building or equipment repairs during off-duty hours using a vehicle, telephone, hand, power and specialty tools and necessary materials and other related duties as assigned.

• Ability to work night shift.
• High school diploma or equivalent (GED). Additional post-secondary education is preferred (Technical or Vocational education) in area of Industrial Engineering.
• Previous work experience in industrial engineering preferred.
• Prefer previous safety training.

Ability to sit (5%), stand (25%), walk (25%), kneel/squat (25%), and bend (20%) for 8 hours. Ability to lift approximately up to a maximum of 75 pounds, approximately 2 times per week from floor to waist. Ability to reach overhead various times per day and to ground various times per day. Climbing stairs and ladders various times per day. Ability to push/pull refrigeration compressors, 55-gallon barrels, motors, gearboxes, and panels weighing heavy amounts, upper and lower body various times per day.

Reading, writing, seeing, hearing, communicating, adding, subtracting, understanding instructions, and complete mental capabilities. Ability to tolerate temperature extremes daily. To be in unprotected heights approximately daily. Exposure and sugar dust, refrigerants, and chemicals daily.