USD $26.10/Hr.

America's Heartland Packing is opening a 775,000 sq. ft. greenfield facility in early 2025, featuring a harvest floor, carcass chillers, fabrication area, rendering, further processing, storage coolers, freezers, and loading docks.

Responsibilities

• Follow all company safety policies and procedures.
• Ensure all assigned daily preventive maintenance (PM’s) are completed.
• Maintain production lines in good mechanical order.
• Aid other teams (Production, Quality) when needed.
• Setup, visually inspect, and test machinery and equipment; perform tear-down procedures.
• Listen for unusual sounds from machines or equipment to detect malfunctions; discuss variations with supervisors or other personnel to diagnose problems or repair machines.
• Dismantle defective machines and equipment; install new or repaired parts.
• Clean and lubricate shafts, bearings, gears, and other parts of machinery.
• Repair and maintain the physical structures of the establishment.

This description is not all-inclusive; employees may perform other related duties to meet ongoing organizational needs.

Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Ability to learn mechanical systems and food manufacturing processes.
• Ability to function effectively in a team environment and interact productively with all levels of team personnel and outside contractors.
• Ability to operate a forklift, genie lift, scissor lift, or other powered industrial trucks (PIT).
• Understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Ability to read and execute work orders, write daily reports, and translate equipment manuals.
• Read, write, and orally communicate in English; ability to work with little or no supervision.
• Flexibility to work overtime, weekends, and holidays as scheduled.

Preferred Qualifications

• Metal fabrication skills.
• 1+ years of related experience and/or training in an industrial mechanical maintenance or food manufacturing environment; or 4 years’ direct experience in industrial mechanical maintenance or food manufacturing maintenance.
• Vocational Diploma, Technical Diploma, or associate degree from a technical maintenance or trade school.
• Previous management experience in a meat slaughter facility.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish).

Skills

• Plumbing
• Welding (TIG, STICK)
• Industrial electrical systems
• Mechanical systems
• Hydraulic and pneumatic systems

Physical Demands

• Occasionally required to stand, walk, or sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 70 pounds.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds utilizing the buddy system or specifically designed lifting devices.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear.

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package.
• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance.
• Life Insurance.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Voluntary Benefits.
• Paid Time Off (PTO).
• 401k retirement plan.
• Long & Short Term Disability.
• Discount Meat Purchase Program.