1st Shift Maintenance Technician/Electrician

Overall Focus: 

The Maintenance Operator is a production laborer who is responsible for the following duties. This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions, it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions

• Accountable for safe work practices
• Reports to Maintenance Manager progress of work
• Accountable for preventative maintenance, breakdown repairs, etc.
• Works with Operations Manager to prioritize breakdowns
• Works with sanitation leader to coordinate repairs and preventative maintenance
• Accountable for established maintenance timelines
• Champion Targeted Pet Treats goals, policies, vision, mission, and core values

Qualifications – Knowledge and skills necessary to meet organizational objectives

• Education/Training/Experience:  High School Diploma or GED
  • Certifications/Licenses: SQF & HACCP preferred.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Able to speak up when there are problems
• Follow up
• Provide feedback on performance
• Teaching skills
• Understand the Production process
• Planning and organizing skills

• Technical Skills/Knowledge
• Familiarity with Mold Setting
• Basic Low Voltage Electric Experience
• Building Maintenance Experience
• Have own hand tools
• Read Blueprints
• Read machine manuals
• Read wiring diagrams
• Mechanical skills – Bearings and bearing maintenance, gearboxes, chains
• Conveyance systems – Screw, air, vibratory and bucket elevators
• Understands AIB regulations and GMP’S as they relate to maintenance
• Align motor drives (bearings and gears)
• Able to use air tools
• Understands and calculate measurements (fractions and decimals)
• Knows safety regulations and procedures as they apply to maintenance
• Understands how all processing equipment works
• Understands the manufacturing process and how their responsibilities relate to its proper functioning
• Plumbing skills-pipe fitting/low pressure fluids
• Trouble shooting skills
• Electrical trouble shooting
• Able to use the diagnostic tools that are built into our control systems
• PLCs- Able to call up screen and find what they are looking for
• Verbal and Math Skills
• Climb ladders and bins (other physical requirements)
• Maneuver in tight spaces
• Lift 25 lbs over their head
• Push pallet jack with up to 2,000 lbs of product
• Move items of 55-80 lbs. in weight from one place to another
• Stack repetitiously 60 lbs
• Able to work with soy based products
• Must be able to distinguish colors
• Teamwork
• Ability to work with little or no supervision
• Time management skills – develop and adhere to a schedule
• Willing to work weekends
• Keeps work areas clean and neat
• Judgment/Decision making skills
• Communication/Listening
• Know when to ask for help
• Ability to Learn
• Integrity
• Adaptability

Core Competencies

• Insightfulness
• Ability to identify key issues and relationships based on information being communicated by a variety of resources
• Making decisions based on logical assumptions combined with factual information while keeping the organizational values and goals in mind
• Collaboration
• Working and communicating appropriately and effectively across roles and departments
• Customer Communication
• Working with internal teams to meet and exceed customer expectations.
• Integrity
• Does what they say they are going to do
• Instills trust through actions and behaviors
• Adaptable
• Can adjust to a new environment quickly
• Adapts well to stressful situations and industry fluctuations

Job Related Competencies  

• Responsible for the maintenance and repair of all equipment and facilities
• Performs all preventative and scheduled maintenance as assigned
• Visually inspects and tests machinery and equipment. Ensures that all safety devices are installed and operational
• Listens for unusual sounds from machines or equipment to detect malfunctions and discusses machine operation    
• variations with operators and other maintenance workers to diagnose problem or repair machine
• Dismantles machines or equipment, replaces defective parts and motors and adjusts equipment as necessary
• Cleans and lubricates machine parts such as shafts, pulleys, gears and bearings or repairs machine belts.
• Installs equipment and completes projects as assigned
• Responsible for proper safety procedures and good housekeeping when performing all assignments
• Accesses needed parts and tracks what is used according to established methods
• Lay out hard wiring for projects
• Wire electrical motors
• Ensures that work is completed according to schedule
• Proactive in detecting and correcting machine performance problems
• Maintain constant communication with Production Manager and other maintenance people
• Reads and interprets blueprints, program listings, schematics, and mechanical and wiring diagrams
• Drafts and modifies blueprints, program listings, schematics, and mechanical and wiring diagrams
• Performs electrical troubleshooting and makes modifications to existing programs

Physical Requirements

(Necessary to perform essential functions of job with or without an accommodation)

• Ability to regularly function in a typical office environment and operate related equipment – computer, copier, telephone, etc.
• There is an occasional need to stand, crouch, walk, push/pull up to 50 pounds, and perform other similar actions during the workday.
• Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time