Refrigeration Maintenance Technician - Chehalis, WA

About the role

Oversee the operation of refrigeration equipment as it relates to the freezing of product.

Schedule

Primarily day shift. During the harvest season, rotating shifts – availability required for day and evening shifts. Availability required for overtime (as requested), some holidays and weekends during the harvest season.

Pay

$28.75 – $35.65 per hour, depending on experience.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage effective the first of the month following 60 days of employment
• Paid vacation (upon qualifying through hours worked)
• 10 paid holidays per calendar year
• Jury duty and bereavement leave
• 401k with company matching
• Life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid sick leave available from the start of employment

Responsibilities

• Monitor temperature, pressure, and air compressors
• Log information pertaining to the equipment and data
• Oversee tunnel clean-up crew, with participation as required to ensure completion of job
• Perform general routine maintenance on process refrigeration equipment
• Operate ammonia compressors, condensers, and pumps to allow maximum production with minimum cost
• Use the computer system for refrigeration functions
• Recognize, troubleshoot, and complete routine maintenance on pumps, plumbing, lights, and enclosures
• Maintain compressors (filters, strainers, and seals)
• Add anhydrous ammonia to the plant system
• Operate boiler and perform routine maintenance, including changing make-up pump, opening boiler ends to change external parts, adding boiler chemicals in correct proportions, and blowing down the system
• All other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Current, valid Washington State Driver’s License
• Preferred CIRO or CARO certification(s)
• Preferred experience with forklift (NFFC will conduct onsite forklift certification and training for utility driving)
• Ability to work all shifts which may include days, evenings, weekends, and some holidays

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift 100 pounds maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 100 pounds
• Ability to stand and walk a maximum of 3 hours prior to each break period
• Ability to ascend or descend ladders, stairs, scaffolding, and the like using feet and legs and/or hands and arms
• Maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow or slippery surfaces
• Ability to extend both hands and arms in any direction
• Ability to seize, hold, grasp, turn, or otherwise work with the hands
• Ability to obtain impressions through the eyes of shape, size, distance, motion, color, or other characteristics of objects
• Ability to twist/turn trunk of body from side to side
• Ability to bend the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist
• Ability to bend the legs at the knees to come to rest on the knee or knees
• Ability to bend the body downward and forward by bending the spine and legs