Lead Industrial Maintenance Technician – Food & Beverage Manufacturing

Lead Industrial Maintenance Technician
- Food & Beverage Manufacturing

Salary: $68,000 - $74,000 per year

Relocation Assistance: Not Available

Hourly Rate: Up to $34.00 per hour + daily overtime and double-time on Sundays
- Fort Atkinson, WI Area

Experience Depth: 3+ years of industrial maintenance experience within FDA, GMP, or SQF manufacturing (food, beverage, pharmaceutical).

Fluid Power Mastery: 3+ years of diagnosing, rebuilding, and repairing hydraulic pumps, valves, cylinders, and pneumatic circuits.

Automation Systems: 3+ years of optimizing and maintaining high-speed conveyor systems, automated sorting machinery, and material handling lines.

Fabrication Aptitude: Proven ability to perform structural welding and custom shop fabrication tasks for equipment modification and repair.

Work Schedule: 2nd shift - full-time, permanent with guaranteed time-and-a-half after 8 hours daily and automatic double-time on Sundays.

Earning Potential: Up to $34.00 per hour baseline + premium overtime multipliers + comprehensive corporate benefits package.

Location: Greater Fort Atkinson, WI area - 100% onsite manufacturing facility.

Compliance: United States Citizens or Green Card holders only; must reside within a dependable daily driving radius of the plant.

This is an opportunity to join a rapidly growing, century-old manufacturing leader built on a culture of safety and lifelong employee longevity. Operating a highly advanced production facility in the Fort Atkinson area, this company invests heavily in its people, ensuring you are thoroughly trained, set up for success, and working in a stable environment where team members treat each other like family.

This hands-on role is highly lucrative for a technical specialist who wants to maximize earning potential while pairing mechanical grit with a stable, supportive manufacturer. The structured team respects your expertise and actively rewards dedication. It is ideal for a reliable maintenance professional seeking long-term job security, premium overtime pay structures, and an excellent local reputation.

• Electro-Mechanical Maintenance:
  Execute complex mechanical and electrical maintenance, troubleshooting, and asset repairs across a highly automated production floor.
• Preventative Maintenance (PMs):
  Rebuild and perform scheduled PMs on automated fluid power systems, pneumatic valves, and heavy-duty hydraulic circuits.
• Packaging Line Optimization:
  Diagnose, level, and optimize high-speed packaging lines, high-efficiency sorting systems, and specialized sanitary conveyors.
• Structural Modification:
  Utilize structural welding skills to modify equipment, reinforce frameworks, and support custom shop fabrication tasks as needed.
• Emergency Breakdown Response:
  Respond promptly to emergency line breakdowns to minimize operational downtime and restore throughput during the 2nd shift window.
• Asset Tracking Documentation:
  Document all repair actions, parts inventory adjustments, and equipment runtime cycles within the facility's asset management system.
• Regulatory Compliance Support:
  Uphold strict FDA, GMP, and SQF regulatory compliance and cleanliness standards across all daily maintenance procedures.

• Regulated Industry Pedigree: A strong, verifiable background troubleshooting high-speed machinery in clean, sanitary production environments subject to federal oversight.
• Diagnostic Intuition:
  Expert-level capability tracking down multi-variant automated system faults across mechanical, pneumatic, and basic electrical domains.
• Reliable Shift Commitment:
  Dependent professional with full, unconditional availability and long-term commitment to a dedicated 2nd shift schedule.
• Employment Reliability: A rock-solid, stable work history demonstrating long-term career commitment and technical growth with previous employers; frequent job-hopping is a disqualifier.