Maintenance Technician

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

Maintenance Technicians will be responsible for ensuring that assigned equipment is operating and maintained and performs building/facility maintenance. Ensures that all tasks and functions of position are performed in a safe manner and that all procedures and requirements are properly followed to accomplish assigned tasks.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES AND DELIVERABLES:

• Responsible for assigned equipment to meet/exceed operating standards in areas of quality, cost, safety, customer satisfaction and productivity as well as minimizing downtime
• Support Production and operators to ensure equipment runs as scheduled
• Perform PM’s on assigned machines to ensure that they run at their maximum capacity through cleaning, lubricating, belt replacement, changing filters, bearings, etc
• Make routine repairs to electrical, pneumatic, and servo driven equipment
• Participate on special projects as required
• Complete all paperwork neatly, correctly, on time and in accordance with Company guidelines
• Communicates with employees, including the proper and safe utilization of equipment
• Able to work alone or as a team member
• Follows all GMP and safety rules and procedures

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 5-10 years of maintenance experience in industrial manufacturing
• Ability to troubleshoot electrical, pneumatic and mechanical breakdowns in industrial machinery
• 3-phase electrical experience
• Experience with VFD, PLC, and servo motors
• Facility maintenance, including plumbing and electrical work
• Experience with conveyor systems, scales, and packaging equipment
• Working with common hand and power tools
• Working with precision measuring instruments, electrical testing devices
• Time management
• Microsoft Office and Outlook
• Logging work electronically in CMMS system

DESIRABLE CRITERIA:

• Have personal tools for work including rolling toolbox/cart. Some special tools will be furnished.
• Understanding of Lock Out Tag Out procedures
• Experience in rebuilding centrifugal and positive displacement pumps
• Able to read electrical schematics and blueprints
• TIG Welding
• Machining – mill/lathe
• EDUCATION:
• High School diploma or equivalent
• HACCP (Food Safety) and Food Quality (desirable but not required)
• PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:
• Strong communicator
• Able to build interpersonal relationships with production machine operators and staff