What are the responsibilities and job description for the Agricultural Maintenance Mechanic position at McCain Foods?
Position Title: Agricultural Maintenance Mechanic
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Plover
Requisition ID: 35077
Schedule: Day Shift
Key Responsibilities: In this role, you will ensure the mechanical and electrical functionality of our plant and field equipment while maintaining compliance with safety, quality, state, federal, and company guidelines. In this hands-on role, you'll inspect, maintain, modify, fabricate, and repair agricultural machinery and systems, troubleshoot issues, and implement improvements to reduce downtime and costs. You'll also perform routine and emergency maintenance, keep detailed records in our CMMS system, and ensure clean, organized workspaces that meet food safety standards. Working closely with project managers, contractors, and engineers, you'll provide technical expertise while staying up to date on OSHA, NEC/70E, and other regulations. A valid forklift license is required, and you may occasionally oversee temporary contract workers.
Qualifications
About McCain Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership Principles.
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.
We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.
The McCain Experience
We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we’re better together.
Compensation Package: $xx.xx-$xx.xx USD hourly bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.
Shift Differential Pay: $xx.xx (remove if not applicable)
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the Global Privacy Policy
Job Family: Agriculture; Manufacturing
Division: NA Ag Strategy
Department: Field Department Maintenance
Location(s): US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Wisconsin Rapids
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Plover
Requisition ID: 35077
Schedule: Day Shift
Key Responsibilities: In this role, you will ensure the mechanical and electrical functionality of our plant and field equipment while maintaining compliance with safety, quality, state, federal, and company guidelines. In this hands-on role, you'll inspect, maintain, modify, fabricate, and repair agricultural machinery and systems, troubleshoot issues, and implement improvements to reduce downtime and costs. You'll also perform routine and emergency maintenance, keep detailed records in our CMMS system, and ensure clean, organized workspaces that meet food safety standards. Working closely with project managers, contractors, and engineers, you'll provide technical expertise while staying up to date on OSHA, NEC/70E, and other regulations. A valid forklift license is required, and you may occasionally oversee temporary contract workers.
Qualifications
- Must demonstrate commitment to personal, product, asset, and site safety.
- Must proactively follow all PPE requirements, safety policies, and safety regulations.
- Must demonstrate electromechanical aptitude, technical proficiency, and consistent attention to detail.
- Must display work-related initiative, independence, and self-motivation to work with minimal supervision.
- Must possess own tools to safely perform assigned tasks.
- Must comprehend mechanical drawings, electrical prints, asset schematics, wiring diagrams, etc.
- Experience with, or training on, working safely with 480-volt 3-phase power.
- Basic knowledge of power distribution, control wiring, and related components.
- Basic understanding of PLC functions.
- Basic understanding of VFD functionality and servo or process controllers.
- Basic electrical troubleshooting and one-for-one component replacement skills, including methods to acknowledge and interpret basic VFD faults. This position is not intended to include PLC, VFD, servo, or instrumentation installation or programming.
- Must be capable of communicating complex and technical operational and procedural data in terms understood by non-technical operators both verbally and in written form. Must occasionally work outdoors, exposed to environmental conditions, intense noise, chemicals, and fumes.
- Job tasks will occasionally require extensive physical effort in awkward positions.
About McCain Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership Principles.
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.
We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.
The McCain Experience
We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we’re better together.
Compensation Package: $xx.xx-$xx.xx USD hourly bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.
Shift Differential Pay: $xx.xx (remove if not applicable)
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the Global Privacy Policy
Job Family: Agriculture; Manufacturing
Division: NA Ag Strategy
Department: Field Department Maintenance
Location(s): US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Wisconsin Rapids
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
