Maintenance Technician

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$17.00/hr - $18.00/hr

Job Title: Maintenance Technician
Date Created: 10/11/2022
Reports To: Maintenance Manager
Location: Plant – Chicago
Department: Quality
Pay Type: Hourly
Travel Requirements: 0%
Relocation: Not provided
Employment Type: Full-Time
Labor Level: Non-Union

Friendly work environment, amazing clients, and great opportunity for professional growth! At Crescent Foods, we pride ourselves in being the first company to offer such a wide variety of Halal chicken and beef products in premium packaging to stores across the country. We pride ourselves in raising and processing the chickens and cattle in humane conditions, while ensuring that the entire farm-to‑fork philosophy adheres to the strictest ethical guidelines.

We believe we are answerable to our loyal customers, our vendors, and our employees, all of whom make us successful. We are dedicated to our mission to provide healthy meals to families across the nation. We might be pioneers in the industry, but our story has just begun.

Maintains building environment and grounds by maintaining building, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment, providing housekeeping, grounds keeping, and repair services. The Maintenance Technician will be working both Supervised and Unsupervised. The position requires but is not limited to assisting Operations with set‑ups, adjustments of Machinery, answering calls to the Production Floor, repairing equipment, installing electrical, gas, water and air when needed.

This includes soldering pipe, threading pipe, and bending pipe for electrical installations. Additional duties are completing PM’s, Work orders, minor repair on Forklifts and Pallet Jacks, Building Maintenance Repair and assisting IT when needed and any other duties necessary as required by the Maintenance Supervisor or Maintenance Manager. This position is for a successful individual who will ensure uninterrupted continuity of facility, manufacturing, and support systems and processes throughout the facility.

This position typically works traditional hours, but occasional evenings, weekends, and holidays may be required to successfully meet customers’ needs.

• Support, monitor and expand Preventive/Predictive Maintenance throughout all facility systems and machinery
• Maintain system for conveying liquids and liquid waste by installing and repairing plumbing apparatuses
• Responsible for maintaining the building alarm and fire protection systems in compliance with safety
• Responsible for exterior/interior building/facility maintenance repairs
• Responsible for maintaining buildings accessibility and appearance by picking up litter, removal of ice/snow, from the walkways and parking lots, painting, mowing the lawn and cleaning surrounding landscape
• Responsible for turning on the lights in some areas for the pre‑op production and ensure the water heaters are on at proper set temperatures
• Ensuring compliance with state, local and federal food safety laws including USDA, GMP’s, CCP, HACCP, SSOP’s and SOP’s guidelines and regulations.
• Assist with the ongoing efficiencies of manufacturing and support systems throughout the facility; make recommendations to management and implement improvements as necessary
• Utilize Crescent Foods system including work orders, purchase order, inventory control, and equipment history, in performing job tasks.
• Troubleshoot and repair controls systems including network problems associated with PCs, PLC’s, and various man‑machine interfaces.
• Utilize an advanced skillset in troubleshooting electrical systems including power distribution, motor controls, variable speed controllers, servo controllers, and robotics.
• Utilize a thorough knowledge in troubleshooting automated packaging machinery operation.
• Utilize a thorough knowledge in troubleshooting various process equipment including pumps, valves, meters, and mixing equipment.
• Utilize a working knowledge…