Maintenance Technician

The Maintenance Technician will play a key role in ensuring the smooth operation of our manufacturing plant and in producing ice cream, juice, sour cream, and yogurt. You will be responsible for maintaining and repairing a variety of equipment, diagnosing and troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic issues, and providing technical expertise to support our production operations. Your efforts will directly contribute to maintaining product integrity, optimizing production efficiency, and ensuring safety across the facility.

Essential Functions:

This position is responsible for:

• Approaching work with a Continuous Improvement (CI) mindset, and engaging in Mid Valley Family Foods Mission Statement to identify, value, prioritize, resource and sustain improvement.
• Conforms to and has department conform to Mid Valley Family Foods quality.
• Updates and monitors a preventative maintenance program for the Mid valley Family Foods plant.
• Helps relieve and cover maintenance department vacations to minimize overtime.
• Coordinates the day-to-day preventative maintenance requirements and must have proficiency in all maintenance.
• Through a parts clerk, establishes parts ordering requirements to ensure that adequate supplies of appropriate spare parts are kept in stock.
• Assists in troubleshooting as needed on plant equipment.
• Performs needed repairs when required. Researches, suggests, and implements system
• Ability to identify and describe each component of the HTST system.
• Demonstrate basic ARC and TIG welding skills.
• Demonstrate proficient use of Volt/Ohm meter.
• Ability to identify chains, sprockets and bearings.
• Demonstrate cute and glue PVC pipe and identify pipe fittings.
• Demonstrate testing for a bad motor using continuity and megohmmeter tests.
• Ability to troubleshoot basic motor control circuits.
• Ability to identify motor and gearbox nameplate and what that information means.
• Demonstrate cut and thread metal pipe and identify pipe fittings.
• Ability to size and troubleshoot VFDs
• Identify inputs and outputs of PLCs
• Understand basic schematics and ladder logic
• Troubleshoot and repair analog control circuits
• Properly bend pipe and conduit
• Identify components and process of CIP system.
• Proficient in all areas of dairy processing, filling and packaging
• Proficient in Blowmold operations.
• Demonstrate sanitary welding technique.
• Analyzes and repairs specialized equipment heavily dependent on electrical controls, microprocessors controls, electro-mechanical mechanisms, and related components under general
• Maintains a working understanding of plant production processes, equipment systems and facilities, in order to perform maintenance effectively under general
• Has sufficient knowledge to be able to operate equipment for diagnostic and break relief as required.
• Performs all work in a safe and professional manner and reports safety deficiencies
• Orders parts and materials as required for assigned
• Maintains professional and appropriate dress, hygiene and personal
• Accountable to the GMP Food Safety and Quality Principles

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Minimum:

• A high school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Must be able to read, write and speak English. Ability to read, write and speak in Spanish a
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of
• High degree of mechanical

Preferred:

• Previous public relations/customer service
• Previous experience with XATA, ADI, or any handheld