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Maintenance Engineer- Hormel Foods

Job in Austin, Mower County, Minnesota, 55912, USA
Listing for: VetJobs
Full Time position
Listed on 2025-12-21
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Mechanical Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 82500 - 115500 USD Yearly USD 82500.00 115500.00 YEAR
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Job Summary

Maintenance Engineer – Austin, MN. Shift

Hours:

Annual shift rotation between 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Apply best practices in maintenance and operations and actively support continuous reliability improvement to optimize physical assets as well as guide and direct a staff of skilled maintenance technicians.

Responsibilities
  • Makes departmental decisions regarding maintenance (maintenance management)
  • Develops an understanding of the equipment and manufacturing processes
  • Trains and supervises mechanics, electricians, plumbers and other skilled trades
  • Offers sound technical and engineering advice for facilities performance improvement
  • Utilizes a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)
  • Uses CAD to gather information and design custom alterations to equipment
  • Selects vendors for equipment purchases
  • Troubleshoots mechanical processes
  • Installs and starts-up new equipment and processes

    Develops creative ideas to cut costs
  • Supervises equipment design changes
  • Monitors and controls energy use
  • Researches alteration requests and provides justification
  • Negotiates and oversees contract work
  • Authorizes, delegates and follows-up with maintenance work-orders, schedules preventive maintenance for equipment
  • Ensures safety and security of physical plant and facilities
  • Verifies and completes administrative work
  • Communicates department projects with plant management
Qualifications
  • A minimum of 3 years of Maintenance Engineering experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Technology, Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Agriculture Engineering, or a related field.
  • Innovative, have good technical and mechanical knowledge, and possess excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills
  • Applicants must not now, or at any time in the future, require employer sponsorship for a work visa.
  • Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer.
Location

Austin, MN

Benefits

Hormel Foods offers an excellent benefits package. Competitive base salary plus target incentive, discretionary annual merit increase, annual performance review, medical, dental, vision, non-contributory pension, profit sharing, 401(k), stock purchase plan, paid personal time off (PTO), FREE two-year community or technical college tuition for children of employees, relocation assistance and more. On-the-job training, certifications and opportunities to expand skill sets.

Advancement
  • Maintenance Engineering is often the stepping stone to corporate engineering, project engineering, design engineering, or plant management.
  • Additional opportunities may exist in different departments, facilities, or subsidiaries
  • Hormel Foods' "promote-from-within" philosophy rewards outstanding performance
Salary Range

The base pay range for this position $82,500 to $115,500 per year; however, actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to job‑related knowledge, skills set, level of experience, and specific office location.

Company and Recruiting Information

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Education Required:

Bachelors
Job Category:
Engineering
Job Code:  
Affiliate Sponsor:
Hormel Foods

Job Characteristics

Seniority level:
Mid‑Senior level

Employment type:

Full‑time
Job function:
Management and Manufacturing

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