Maintenance Technician (Apprentice Engineer)

About the Role

As a part of the Engineering Team, the employee performs 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.

Location: Emporia, KS – Hostess Manufacturing Plant. Work Arrangements: 100% on-site, 8-hour shifts, with openings on 2nd and 3rd shifts.

Responsibilities

• Repairs and maintains machinery and mechanical equipment, such as motors, pneumatic tools, conveyor systems, and production machines, in accordance with diagrams, sketches, operation manuals, and manufacturer's specifications, using hand tools, power tools, and precision-measuring and testing instruments.
• Dismantles devices to gain access to and remove defective parts, using hoists, cranes, hand tools, and power tools.
• Inspects used parts to determine changes in dimensional requirements, using rules, calipers, micrometers, and other measuring instruments.
• Adjusts functional parts of devices and control instruments, using hand tools, levels, plumb bobs, and straightedges.
• Repairs or replaces defective parts, using hand tools and power tools.
• Installs special functional and structural parts in devices, using hand tools.
• Starts devices to test their performance.
• Lubricates and cleans parts.
• May set up and operate lathe, drill press, grinder, and other metalworking tools to make and repair parts.
• Requisitions supplies, materials, tools, machine parts, and other necessary equipment.
• May repair electrical equipment.
• Ensures the proper use, care, and storage of tools and equipment.
• Performs bearing analysis and installation.
• Analyzes electrical circuits, wiring diagrams, and drawings; installs, repairs, calibrates, services, or replaces electrical devices and systems, and power generation devices to prevent overload using an amp probe, recording meter, and various hand, power, and specialty tools.
• Welds various types of metal to repair or fabricate metal assemblies (e.g., racks, shelves, stands for equipment) using appropriate tools (e.g., cutting torch, arc and gas welder, high-speed disk, grinders, files).
• Performs preventive maintenance on uninterrupted power supply systems, generators, and air compressors to maintain system operation and reliability, ensuring 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).
• 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.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

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

Physical Requirements

• 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.
• Ability to work in unprotected heights approximately daily.
• Exposure to sugar dust, refrigerants, and chemicals daily.

Tools and Equipment

Engineering will provide a tool list.

About Us

We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, play to win, and believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.