Maintenance Lead (Days 8am-4pm) $37.95/hr

Responsibilities

• Oversee maintenance area in the absence of Maintenance Supervisor.
• Cover all responsibilities of the Maintenance Supervisor when absent.
• Coordinate work activities with departments, outside contractors and vendors, and prioritize production demands.
• Diagnose equipment failures and coordinate necessary repairs while minimizing production downtime.
• Must be knowledgeable in professional maintenance, proper equipment installation, and food safety and sanitation expectations in a food plant.
• Act as a training mentor in areas of expertise, train less experienced maintenance technicians, and coordinate training activities for the department as needed.
• Demonstrate superior competency while performing oversight of routine equipment maintenance.
• Lead efforts to identify and define best practice maintenance standards and drive team ownership of these applications.
• Start/stop all equipment and understand where to find equipment documentation if needed (SOPs, dwgs, etc).
• Properly size equipment components including (but not limited to) gearboxes, motors, sprockets, sheaves, pumps, fans, pipe flow, etc.
• Follow and promote all safety programs and requirements (Hot work policy, confined space, fall protection, proper rigging requirements, lockout/tag out) and all safety programs utilized by Idahoan Foods.
• Follow and promote all good manufacturing practices (GMPs) as defined by the Idahoan Foods company policy.
• Understand basic applications of electrical and controls safety requirements within the maintenance department.
• Complete routine paperwork and have a thorough understanding of M3 for maintenance.
• Willing to answer and respond to on-call plant needs and to coordinate resources as needed to address emergency downtime scenarios.
• Follow, and enforce, all company Food Safety and Food Quality programs, policies and practices.

Qualifications/Required Skills

• Coordinate work activities with departments, outside contractors and vendors, and prioritize with production demands.
• Two years of trade school and/or five years of experience in maintenance.
• Possess skills to properly use and inspect all necessary mechanics tools both manual and power.
• Demonstrates the ability to work from PIDs, PFDs, drawings, equipment schematics, and/or verbal instruction.
• Complete and maintain Idahoan Foods forklift certification.
• Complete and maintain a current CPR & First Aid certification.
• Must be willing to complete professional development or continuing education classes every two years.
• Essential computer skills using Windows applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and E-mail.
• Able to effectively utilize the computerized maintenance management software (M3) to generate work orders, research equipment hierarchy, PMs, work history, etc.