Maintenance Technician

As the Maintenance Technician at our company, you will be responsible for monitoring operation and maintaining equipment to ensure optimum performance. Presence on the production floor is required in order to work with quality technicians and machine operators to produce consistent, safe, high-quality ESL and UHT beverages.

This position shares responsibility for maintaining Suntado’s food safety, quality and legality program under the BRC/GFSI/PCQI guidelines.

• Demonstrate safe behavior in all aspects of your daily routine to include cleaning tools, maintaining equipment, performing routine tasks, and instilling a culture of safety throughout the facility.
• Prioritize food safety and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) in all aspects of your work.
• Work closely with machine operators to gain understanding of the process and help them understand the mechanical operation and troubleshoot equipment. Together, identify, report, and correct deviations and problems.
• Minimize downtime on production equipment by executing timely PMs and completing maintenance tasks as needed.
• Provide detailed, timely daily reports on downtime, work performed (work order generation and completion), parts usage or needs, and any ongoing issues.
• Provide accurate and timely feedback with details to maintenance leadership in order to generate, update, and correct documentation for PMs, work orders, or parts information in CMMS system.
• Always communicate progress or issues on action tracker.
• Add value by participating in maintenance throughout the plant to keep processing and production equipment operational. Prioritize and work with Production supervisor to prioritize when more than one task at hand.
• Always provide initiative-taking support and solutions.
• Demonstrate proficiency in reading equipment manuals and P& to better troubleshoot, address, and fix equipment.
• Participate in HACCP team, Quality RCAs, routine plant inspections, ISDA, SQF, and customer audits as directed by maintenance manager.
• Serve as a technical leader for the plant, bringing deep knowledge and experience to help drive equipment reliability, troubleshoot effectively, and mentor others.

This role requires an agile and intelligent mechanic with great people and communication skills, working knowledge of aseptic processing and packaging, experience with dairy or low acid food processing, and mechanical acumen. Must be initiative-taking, possess the ability to collaborate with a team, and have the desire to succeed.

• Implement, monitor, improve, and uphold high standards of safety in all aspects of maintenance routine.
• Ensure appropriate processes and standards are in place and followed to keep producing quality food, maintain high performance, and generate robust records.
• Report out on top downtime for each shift and communicate ongoing issues to the incoming shift.
• Exhibit and foster a presence on the floor and initiative-taking team that collaborates with operators to troubleshoot and solve problems in real-time.
• Lead troubleshooting for top downtime items; identify and correct root cause.
• Provide support to vendors and technicians on-site for commissioning, training, PMs, routine, and non-routine work. Help operators learn, hands-on any time they can.
• Uphold high standards of conduct while providing support to operations.
• Participate in cross functional teams focused on reducing downtime and improving performance, resolving quality concerns, and take advantage of situations where your expertise can provide coaching or teaching moments to teams.
• Maintain robust records of maintenance activity, changes, and resolution of problems on equipment.
• This position will require active involvement in daily operations and taking advantage of teaching moments to help operators learn and develop.
• Work with the Maintenance Supervisor and Manager to get the tools needed to be successful and be an advocate for the shift when opportunities arise that require support from the plant leadership team.
• Maintain an endless pursuit of knowledge and continuous training to maximize effectiveness across the plant's equipment.
• Execute precision…