General Maintenance Technician at UFM

The Maintenance Lead is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the plant and assumes responsibility for maintaining the physical assets of the property. This position will be responsible for a wide variety of general building maintenance, maintaining site services, and manufacturing equipment repairs and services in a newly built facility. This will be a day shift position, must be open to be on call evenings and weekends, if needed.

MAINTENANCE LEAD RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and execute day-to-day reliability excellence and maintenance activities, ensure policies and procedures are followed related to employee safety and food/feed safety.
• Support proper maintenance and repair of all plant/buildings and grounds equipment to include, troubleshooting, preventive, and predictive maintenance.
• Assist with the scheduling of maintenance plans.
• Upload, download, configure, modify, and troubleshoot PLC programs and process instruments.
• Assist with building and wiring control panels for machinery per blueprints and schematics.
• Locate sources of problems by observing mechanical devices in operation, listen for problems, and use precision measuring and testing instruments.
• Ensure operation of machinery and mechanical equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements on motors, pneumatic components, conveyor systems, and production machines by following diagrams, sketches, operations manuals, manufacturer's instructions, and engineering specifications to troubleshoot malfunctions.
• Daily interaction with plant floor employees and will work closely with engineering and other maintenance team members to support plant operations.

MAINTENANCE LEAD QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5 years maintenance experience out of a manufacturing environment.
• Computerized Maintenance Management System experience.
• 2 years' experience leading a technical maintenance team.
• Predictive maintenance experience preferred.
• Experience in an agriculture industry, flour, or feed milling environment preferred.
• Lean manufacturing experience, a plus.
• Strong knowledge of electrical, mechanical, hydraulics, and pneumatics and the ability to read and interpret blueprints. (PLC's and instrumentation experience).
• Ability to schedule maintenance, respond to breakdowns, diagnosing faults, and repair equipment.
• Proficiency with MS Office (Excel, Outlook, and Word).
• Experience with Siemens and Allen Bradley software highly preferred.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• The job will require outside work.
• This position requires physical efforts such as straining, pulling, lifting, working, and standing and walking on concrete floor.
• Willing to work in confined space with limited head space.
• Exposure to elements such as noise, minable dust, cold and hot temperatures.
• Extreme climate or climate variation.
• Heat up to 100 degrees and low below freezing temperatures.
• Exposure to manufacturing equipment hazards.
• Climbing ladders and stairs.

BENEFITS:

• Medical Insurance (first day of the month after start date)
• Health Savings, and or Flexible Spending Account
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance and AD&D, Employer Paid
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program
• Accident Insurance, Optional
• Critical Illness Insurance, Optional
• 401K, Employer Match
• PTO & Vacation Pay
• 9 Paid Holidays
• Company Product Discounts
• Tuition Reimbursement, up to $5,000.00 per calendar year
• Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Leave
• Company Incentive Plan
• Bereavement Pay
• Relocation Available

Utah Flour Milling is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state, or local law. pm21

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