Maintenance Technician Final Packaging

About the role

Serve as a multi-craft maintenance technician specializing in final packaging equipment and systems within a food manufacturing environment. Maintain, troubleshoot, repair, and improve packaging machinery to support production schedules, minimize downtime, and ensure finished products are packaged safely, accurately, and efficiently. Promote teamwork, continuous improvement, and compliance with all company food safety, quality, sanitation, and occupational safety requirements.

Responsibilities

• Follow Watershed Foods sanitation, GMPs, HACCP procedures, Food Safety policies and Occupational Safety Policies.
• Support all Watershed Foods Food Safety initiatives.
• Address Food Safety, Quality and Occupational Safety concerns with Operations, Quality and Maintenance Team members and contractors.
• Effectively and efficiently troubleshoot, correct, and repair equipment to maintain safe production.
• Complete maintenance tasks of PMs, inspections, pump/gearbox rebuilds, electrical troubleshooting, and changing out mechanical/electrical components.
• Identify equipment problems found during inspections and PMs to prevent equipment down time.
• Initiate root cause analysis investigations to eliminate repeat problems.
• Maintain a clean work area and maintain thorough records.
• Be available for call-in situations where support is needed on weekends and other shifts.
• Willing to come in early or work over to cover production needs.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of industrial maintenance experience (Examples: Electronic/Control systems, pneumatics, PLC systems, industrial automation, industrial refrigeration, etc.)
• Ability to troubleshoot electro-mechanical systems
• Experience maintaining or repairing industrial packaging equipment, conveyors, motors, gearboxes, bearings, sensors, and related machinery.
• Knowledge of electricity and electronic principles (Examples: motor starters, contactors, relays, 3 phase power)
• Experience troubleshooting and installing/aligning mechanical components (Examples: pumps, gear boxes, bearings, conveyors)
• Understanding of electrical schematics and P&IDs
• Team-oriented personality.
• Ability to work in fast paced environment by adjusting priorities to meet production needs.
• Well-developed sense of personal initiative and decision making.
• Meet expectations of lifting, pushing, pulling, and carrying necessary for the job (100lbs) in extreme hot and cold conditions.
• Ability to install electrical conduit in accordance with NEC (preferred)
• Experience in food manufacturing (preferred)
• Knowledge of industrial refrigeration principles (helpful)