Maintenance Mechanic

Hill's Pet Nutrition

Tonganoxie, KS

Pay: $33/hr

No Relocation Assistance Offered

Job Number #176661 - Tonganoxie, Kansas, United States

**Who We Are**

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

The **Maintenance Technician** will be responsible for the support of production lines, equipment, and the facility. This position will have primary responsibilities to include troubleshooting, repairing, and preventative maintenance as required to ensure equipment reliability; assist with root cause analysis to identify reasons for failures and breakdowns; review electrical and pneumatic schematics during troubleshooting, repair and project work; and will work closely with the operators to support production and transfer skills to Operation Technicians. The Maintenance Technician will work with other employees throughout the organization to achieve factory business objectives of safety, productivity, customer service, quality, cost and environmental protection.

**What You Will Do:**

• Troubleshoots, repairs and conducts preventive maintenance for production and utility equipment as required to ensure equipment reliability including mechanical failures, electrical issues up to 480V, and PLC issues
• Reviews project instructions, blueprints, electrical, and pneumatic schematics to ascertain test specifications, procedures, objectives, test equipment, nature of technical problems, and possible solutions such as part redesign, substitution of material or parts, or re-engineering of parts or subassemblies.
• Assists with root cause analysis to identify reasons for equipment failures and breakdowns.
• Functions as a technical resource on project and improvement teams.
• Proficient user of SAP-EAM and other electronic tools, adeptly documenting Maintenance activities and trouble.
• Understands and complies with Hill’s policies, safety standards, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and Food Safety. Identifies, reports, and assists with correcting any opportunities to improve facility practices.
• Actively participates in Quality and Safety programs at the facility.
• Records test procedures and results, numerical and graphical data, and makes recommendations for changes in product or test method.
• Fabricates machine parts as needed to perform repairs including welding and machining and change to electrical and power transmission systems.
• Operates forklifts, scissor lifts and boom lifts
• Must be able to utilize ladders and stairs
• Participates in structured group or team activities related to line/ area performance improvement e.g., autonomous maintenance, housekeeping, shop sanitation, problem solving, shift transition meeting, etc.
• Basic understanding of Ladder Logic, PLC Programming, parameters of Controls Logic and National Electric Code following established electrical safe practices.
• Maintains spare parts inventory and restocking of inventory for the plant as needed. This includes properly checking out parts or returning parts to stock if unused.
• Completes all regulatory and compliance related documentation and procedures accurately.
• Works with teams and focus resources and assures correct PMs are in SAP including auditing work order completion and effectiveness.
• Works with operators to support production and transfer knowledge skills to operation technicians.
• Other job functions that may be assigned\*

**Required Qualifications:**

• High school diploma or GED equivalent
• 1+ year of industrial maintenance experience
• Ability to work an off-shift work schedule that includes weekends
• Basic math (core arithmetic operations, read a tape measure, SAE and Metric knowledge)
• Computer skills

**Preferred Qualifications:**

• Previous SAP-PM/EAM experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• 3+ years industrial maintenance experience in food, pet food, or pharmaceuticals
• Self-directed work groups, teamwork, interpersonal skills and strong results-oriented attitude
• Troubleshooting and repairing technical issues
• Knowledge of Food Safety guidelines
• Ability to access, input, and retrieve information from computer / computer systems.

**Night Shift (2-2-3 schedule)**

**Starting Pay Rate: $33 USD per hour**

**$1,500 Hiring Bonus**

**Tonganoxie, Kansas, United States (15 minutes from Lawrence, 30 minutes from Kansas City, 30 minutes from Topeka)**

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