Maintenance Technician

The Mark Anthony Group of Companies is one of North America’s most diversified and successful private beverage companies focused on the alcohol beverage sector. Founded in 1972, the Company grew organically from a one-man wine importing business to a producer and distributor of fine wine, premium spirits, and ready-to-drink beverages, including White Claw Hard Seltzer.

Role Purpose :

As a Maintenance Technician, you will perform highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair and maintain highly automated and advanced production machinery and equipment according to predictive maintenance schedules. This will be to ensure the smooth operation of equipment, minimize downtime, and meet efficiency goals.

Accountabilities & Impact :

• Adhere to all Plant and Safety policies and procedures, including wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), as well as adhering to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).
• Ensure equipment meets safety standards and regulations.
• Ability to effectively troubleshoot equipment to minimize unplanned equipment downtime.
• Plan and execute predictive / preventative maintenance efforts to minimize equipment downtime.
• Demonstrate effective root-cause problem solving to identify and perform equipment repairs and improvements.
• Ability to troubleshoot electrical systems from 480VAC to 24VDC. Motors, variable speed drives, photo eyes, encoders, servo motors, safety modules as an example.
• Participate in special projects on equipment upgrades or installations.
• Utilize skills in fabrication capabilities and work with electrical systems including 480VAC & 24VDC power.
• Read and interpret schematics for process and instrumentation diagrams, electrical schematics and line diagrams, mechanical drawings and manual
• Ability to read PLC programs, navigating and interacting with HMI.
• Install and calibrate pressure, temperature, flow and level transmitters as well as control valves.
• Working knowledge of beverage analyzers, Control loops, Digital and analog controllers.
• Ability to troubleshoot, replace and termination of remote digital / analog IOs.
• Participate in CapEx / OpEx projects with actively providing inputs and feedback.
• Ability to replace and rewire motors, pumps, valves and transmitters.
• Maintain accurate records of maintenance activities, including work performed, parts used, and any additional observations.
• Ensure PM’s / work order paperwork is completed before departure from plant.
• Follow-up with any team members when passing along ongoing work to the next shift.
• Assist the lead with developing / updating SOP’s.
• Work closely with production and other departments to coordinate maintenance activities without disrupting the manufacturing process. Communicate effectively with team members and supervisors.
• Finding parts in the CMMS system.
• Ensure parts used from inventory are reported and documented in accordance with inventory control program guidelines.
• Optimize the use of resources, including tools and equipment.
• Ensure smooth shift changes by communicating important information to incoming shifts, including updates on work in progress, equipment conditions, and any outstanding issues or concerns.
• Escalate concerns to supervisor as it relates to safety, quality, performance goals, productivity, continuous improvement, and teamwork / harmony.
• Collaborate with your peers and team members to transfer specialist technical knowledge.
• Provide training to production staff on basic equipment operation and routine maintenance tasks.
• Work directly with leadership to develop and execute projects involving continuous improvement, equipment and / or facility upgrades, and the permanent corrective measures of reoccurring problems.
• Perform other various job duties as required.

Skills & Experiences Needed :

The Maintenance Technician position is well-suited for you if you have / are :

Working Conditions

Scheduling requirements :   12 hour shifts on the 2,2,3 schedule OR 8 hour shifts M-F

Shift operations may include weekends, holidays. Must be able to work overtime as directed by management.

What we value at Mark Anthony :

Sense of Urgency

Authenticity

Simplicity

Humility

Trust

At Mark Anthony, we believe every team member shares the responsibility of understanding how each of our roles and actions impact Quality, Food Safety, Safety and Continuous Improvement. This collective mindset is the cornerstone of our success as a leader in the consumer beverage space and requires us to mutually build and improve robust processes that guarantee unmatched customer satisfaction and safety.