Maintenance Technician

Location

Meadville, Pennsylvania – 135,000 sq ft facility with 290 employees. 45 minutes from Pittsburgh.

• Maintain and repair all plant equipment.
• Troubleshoot machines or equipment, replace defective parts, order parts not in stock, and adjust equipment as necessary.
• Diagnose unusual sounds from machines to detect malfunctions and discuss machine operation variations with operators and other maintenance workers to correct problems or repair machines.
• Perform mechanical and electrical troubleshooting and replace parts as needed in existing systems.
• Read and interpret blueprints, program listings, schematics, and mechanical and wiring diagrams.
• Proactively detect and correct machine performance problems.
• Perform all preventative and scheduled maintenance as assigned.
• Ensure all safety devices are installed and operational.
• Clean and lubricate machine parts as required.
• Inspect and test machinery and equipment as required.
• Install equipment and complete work orders as assigned.
• Prepare for work by collecting required tools and parts before shutting down equipment.
• Work with Operations to plan start and stop of downtime in production.
• Ensure that work is completed according to schedule.
• Follow all lock out/tag out procedures.
• Contact appropriate person when questions arise.
• Follow all Safety guidelines and procedures.
• Follow all SOPs.
• Inform A-lead and Food Safety of any food safety concerns.
• Adhere to all Standard Operating Procedures and job instructions.
• Follow all GMPs.
• Access needed parts and track usage according to established methods.
• Communicate with team members to convey status, bring up concerns, or point out roadblocks to returning equipment to production.

• A post‑secondary degree is preferred, consisting of a minimum of 2 years vocational training in a maintenance or engineering related field.
• Certified Maintenance and Reliability Technician (CMRT) preferred.
• Prefer five or more years of engineering or maintenance experience in a food processing plant environment.
• Thorough understanding and adherence to OSHA and company safety regulations (LOTO, CSE, PPE, etc.).
• Comprehensive understanding of Reliability Centered Maintenance.
• Ability to achieve results while simultaneously executing multiple projects.
• Comprehensive understanding of CMMS and Microsoft Office programs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in a customer service environment.
• Ability to work effectively in a team‑based environment with multiple functional groups.
• Mechanical – basic trouble‑shooting skills with bearings, actuators, gearboxes, etc.
• PLCs – ability to call up screen and understand the logic.

• Climb ladders and bins.
• Maneuver in tight spaces.
• Move items of 55–80 lbs. in weight from one place to another.
• Stack repetitiously 60 lbs. or less.
• Differentiate between colors.
• Work in extreme temperature conditions (very hot or very cold).

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.