Skilled Maintenance Mechanic

About the role

The Skilled Maintenance Mechanic position plays a crucial role in supporting production, packaging, and processing operations at General Mills' Cedar Rapids plant. This role involves sanitation, startup, changeover, and shutdown of operating equipment. Shifts are available in 8-hour rotations across three shifts: 1st shift from 7:00am to 3:00pm, 2nd shift from 3:00pm to 11:00pm, and 3rd shift from 11:00pm to 7:00am. Overtime, additional shifts, and weekend/holiday work may be required.

Responsibilities

• Supports production, packaging, and processing operations
• Sanitizes and prepares equipment for operation
• Performs startup, changeover, and shutdown of operating equipment
• Works with high-level operators on experienced teams
• Identifies and troubleshoots mechanical issues
• Performs basic machining and welding tasks
• Understands circuit layouts and replaces and troubleshoots instrumentation, motors, and other electrical equipment/components
• Provides technical support and plant leadership for equipment troubleshooting and modifications
• Initiates and participates in root cause analysis
• Performs both uptime and downtime preventative maintenance
• Engages in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform performance
• Affords assistance in training new employees

Requirements

• Minimum of a high school education or GED
• Two years of experience in a manufacturing/production environment
• Forklift certification and ability to drive a forklift
• Ability to understand and communicate effectively with co-workers, supervisors, and others in the workplace regarding work matters

Qualifications

• Physical strength to lift up to 50 lbs
• Ability to perform physical tasks for extended periods of time including standing, walking, climbing, bending, pushing, pulling, and twisting over various surfaces
• Ability to work at heights using stairs, ladders, personnel lifts, or platforms
• Willingness to adhere to all grooming requirements necessary for a food manufacturing environment
• Ability to work in hot, cold, noisy, dusty, wet environments
• Willingness to work around industrial high-speed moving machinery
• Ability to work with allergens that might be present in a food environment

Skills

• Understanding of circuit layouts and instrumentation
• Basic machining and welding skills
• Problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
• Preventative maintenance techniques
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Effective communication skills

Benefits

• 15 days (120 hours) of vacation annually
• 13 paid company holidays
• 401(k) match
• Health insurance including medical, dental, and vision
• Overtime pay with rates ranging from 1.5 to 3 times the regular rate of pay
• Shift differentials for working 2nd and 3rd shifts

Pay

$37.15 per hour with annual wage progression up to $39.92 per hour

Schedule

• 8-hour shifts
• 1st shift: 7:00am to 3:00pm
• 2nd shift: 3:00pm to 11:00pm
• 3rd shift: 11:00pm to 7:00am

About our Location

The Cedar Rapids plant offers numerous growth and promotion opportunities, often promoting from within for salaried positions. It provides competitive pay and benefits, making it one of the highest-rated employers in the area. The plant organizes holiday dinners, family days, bring your child to work day, a summer bash with families and community involvement, and a quarter-century club celebration for employees with 25 or more years of service. Fun facts include Ashton Kutcher's previous employment at the plant and his father's 35-year tenure in the fruit department. The plant is also the sole domestic producer of Betty Crocker frosting.

Our Products

Cereals, Desserts, Gushers, Fruit by the Foot, Fruit Rollups, and more!

What Your Day Will Look Like

Creating high-quality foods that are consumed daily nationwide, using technology in a leading facility, working with experienced teams, willing to learn and earn, challenging yourself to do the job right, gaining skills for future opportunities, installing, maintaining, repairing, and replacing machinery, work tools, and equipment, identifying and troubleshooting mechanical issues, performing basic machining and welding tasks, understanding circuit layouts, replacing and troubleshooting instrumentation, motors, and other electrical equipment/components, providing technical support and plant leadership for equipment troubleshooting and modifications, initiating and participating in root cause analysis, performing both uptime and downtime preventative maintenance, engaging in continuous improvement initiatives to increase platform performance, assisting in training new employees.

Company Overview

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one another and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.