Maintenance Technician

$30 - $33 per hour | Lenoir City, TN | On-site | Permanent

Founded over 100 years ago and operating globally with facilities across multiple regions, we are a leading supplier of natural food and beverage ingredients serving manufacturers around the world. We combine deep agricultural roots with innovative processing technologies to deliver safe, high-quality, traceable ingredients while maintaining a strong commitment to food safety, sustainability, and operational excellence.

• Global Industry Leader:
  Join a well-established organization supplying ingredients to top food and beverage manufacturers worldwide
• Career Growth:
  Opportunities to develop technical expertise and advance within a large global organization
• Comprehensive Benefits:
  Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and retirement programs
• Paid Time Off & Holidays
• Impactful Role:
  Own critical foreign material prevention systems that directly support food safety and customer quality standards
• Travel & Exposure:
  Work across multiple facilities with approximately 50% travel

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Perform corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance on production equipment and building systems.
• Troubleshoot and repair gearboxes, motors, vacuum pumps, blowers, roasters, grinders, conveyors, and packaging equipment.
• Perform basic maintenance on compressors and HVAC systems.
• Diagnose mechanical and electrical faults using schematics, diagrams, and basic PLC/HMI input/output signals.
• Maintain pneumatic valves, positioning systems, rotary airlocks, diverters, dust extraction equipment, screens, and shakers.
• Service filling, sealing, conveying, wrapping, weighing, and batching equipment.
• Support equipment installations, removals, commissioning, startups, and shutdowns.
• Select appropriate tools and replacement parts; communicate parts usage and replenishment needs to the maintenance planner.
• Identify equipment bottlenecks and make repairs or adjustments to maintain production flow and minimize downtime.
• Support process improvements, automation projects, and facility expansion.
• Coordinate with production leadership, maintenance colleagues, vendors, and contractors.
• Operate equipment when required and train operators in proper operation and autonomous maintenance.
• Follow food safety, quality, sanitation, and safety requirements, including BRC, HACCP, GMP, and PPE practices.

Needed:

• High school diploma or GED.
• Minimum 3 years of manufacturing equipment maintenance and repair experience, including basic electrical knowledge.
• Strong mechanical and electrical troubleshooting skills; ability to assemble and dismantle machinery using hand and power tools.
• Experience with production and packaging automation, machine shop equipment, pneumatics, and vacuum systems.
• Ability to read equipment schematics and diagrams.
• Basic ability to interpret PLC/HMI inputs, outputs, and signals; familiarity with Allen-Bradley, Omron, or Panasonic equipment.
• Experience with form-fill-seal baggers, dry-product fillers, can fillers, lid crimpers, and seamers.
• Familiarity with conveyors, carton/tray erectors, shrink tunnels, stretch wrappers, scales, load cells, and batching systems.
• Understanding of production processes, quality measurements, food safety, and safe maintenance practices.
• Availability for overtime, weekends, holidays, and changing schedules as business needs require.
• Basic reading, writing, and math skills; ability to prioritize repairs and report equipment concerns.
• Preferred:
  Millwright, Industrial Mechanic, or Industrial Electrician certification; spreadsheet/MRP experience; VFFS, HFFS, cartoner, or high-speed packaging experience.
• Especially valuable:
  Coffee roasting or food and beverage manufacturing experience.

Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Jobot also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.

It is Jobot's policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

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