Food Manufacturing - Maintenance Technician

Zoroco Packaging Inc.

Caldwell, ID

Pay: $26-$31/hr

Shift: Full time

**Job Summary:**

The **Maintenance Technician** is responsible for safely maintaining, repairing, replacing, and modifying all processing, packaging, and facility equipment with optimal quality and efficiency.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**

A **Maintenance Technician** is expected to perform all of the following essential job functions based on the business assignment (detailed):

• Responsible party in supporting the food safety culture of the company.
• Effectively communicate with production personnel and other mechanics to identify problematic areas of concern; provide and receive feedback and/or support through collection and analysis of information.
• Maintain equipment and perform mechanical tasks to keep equipment in optimal operational condition; Maintenance Technician III is expected to repair 80% of equipment without direction.
• Perform electrical repairs and troubleshoot for the following: PLC Controls, AC & DC motor controls, solid state motor controls, advanced circuits and grounding, interpret diagrams and test equipment.
• Read schematics, drawings, and manuals to establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Support facility maintenance equipment, which includes the following: wastewater equipment, compressed air, refrigeration and building safety equipment.
• Must demonstrate an understanding of the company’s objectives including productivity, food safety, quality, customer service and cost goals; daily work activities should support achieving those goals.
• Perform daily inspections, emergency repairs, and routine adjustments; follow periodic preventive maintenance schedule.
• Maintain organized documentation, inspection records, work orders, and passdowns.
• Serve as a resource to other departments to resolve mechanical issues and maintain production efficiencies.
• Provide support to Process Improvement (PI) projects and participate on safety teams.
• Responsible for actively supporting the other members of the employee’s work team, including assisting with cross-training, new-hire/buddy assignments, and process support during breaks, meal periods, and other staff coverage as needed.
• Weld and fabricate; assess welded surfaces, structures, and components to identify errors
• Other duties as assigned within skill set.

**Required Skills / Abilities / Qualifications:**

• Meet all of the required skills of a level 2 mechanic.
• Must possess proficient mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic troubleshooting skills (logic and control circuits) and emergency repair skills; ability to identify and repair problematic issues concerning all equipment and machinery, including finding innovative solutions to recurrent problems.
• Ability to read, write, and speak English.
• Must work effectively in a team setting.
• Must demonstrate ability to cross-train other mechanics as well as production personnel.
• Proficiency with Microsoft computer programs: Outlook, Word and Excel (ability to enter data into the system).
• Ability to demonstrate math skills as part of the daily activities such as fractions, decimals, percentages, and the metric system; efficient with ratios, metric system, and formulas.
• Ability to understand schematics, drawings, and manuals to establish facts and draw conclusions.
• Familiarity with preventive and reliability-based maintenance.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• Ability to use a multimeter and other measurement instruments.
• Knowledge of operations and ability to operate all production equipment; baggers, metal detectors, checkweighers, printers, conveyors, etc.
• Certified for operating a forklift.

**Education and/or Experience:**

• Minimum 2-5 years of experience with industrial, high-speed processing, packaging, weighing, filling, and inspection equipment OR minimum two years of technical training
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have Medium computer skills.
• Bilingual (English & Spanish) a plus.

**Physical Requirements:**

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand. The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 15 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 55 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

**Working Conditions:**

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; and extreme cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually m