Commercial Kitchen Equipment Service Technician - Construction

Commercial Kitchen Equipment Service Technician - Construction

OTG - Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark, NJ, 3 Brewster Rd, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Posted Monday, December 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM

YOUR NEXT OPPORTUNITY IS NOW BOARDING:

Join OTG as the Commercial Kitchen Equipment Service Technician and drive a new type of hospitality. Explore career opportunities in a unique hospitality environment with some of the industry's best compensation and benefits, including PTO, Healthcare, and a competitive 401k match.

OTG has revolutionized the hospitality industry by pushing the boundaries of excellence. With more than 300 in-terminal dining and retail locations across 10 airports, OTG and its 5,000+ Crew members serve millions of travelers each year.

By joining our team, you’ll discover endless opportunities to explore, learn and realize your greatest potential in some of the most exciting hospitality environments around. Our people drive our experiences, so we offer our crew members some of the best compensation and benefits in the industry.

Position Summary:

An OTG Commercial Kitchen Service Technician troubleshoots and fixes restaurant equipment. In this career, you repair a kitchen appliance and perform regular maintenance. Responsibilities include communicating with other food industry professionals and making sure cooking appliances work properly. Other duties include monitoring truck stock and ensuring necessary supplies make it from the warehouse to the kitchen. A Commercial Kitchen Service Technician will also keep a log of repairs and services needed, install new kitchen equipment, maintain a neat and orderly workstation, and provide excellent customer service for restaurant professionals.

• Install new commercial kitchen equipment including dishwashers, conveyors, ovens, stoves, kettles, fryers, steamers, and ice machines.
• Diagnose commercial cooking equipment performance through observation, testing, and setup.
• Disassemble and reassemble equipment to perform troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and repair.
• Operate hand tools, power tools, gauges, and measuring equipment to perform service of units.
• Lift, carry, pull, and push components and/or equipment to test, set up, or maintain equipment.
• Give and take written and verbal instructions.
• Complete documents to verify work performed.
• Work flexible hours as required.

• High school or equivalent.
• Burn and fire watch certificates a plus.
• Knowledge and experience with plumbing, electrical and copper work as it pertains to new installation.
• Diagnostic ability demonstrated through a minimum of 2 years’ experience and/or training in commercial cooking equipment such as fryers and grills.
• Ability to competently use a variety of meters, measuring instruments, torches, and hand tools.
• Ability to effectively communicate with the customer.
• Ability to work independently, under pressure, and without close supervision; willing and able to consistently work the schedule required by job demands.
• Ability to exert up to 100 pounds of force (pulling, pushing, lifting, carrying, etc.) regularly and up to 50 pounds of force frequently.
• Ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, stand, walk, twist, grasp to perform essential job functions.
• Ability to tolerate environmental conditions consisting of extreme heat, cold, noise, vibration, fumes, dust, and poor ventilation.

Pay range: $32-$40 per hour

OTG Concessions Management, LLC and its subsidiaries and affiliates are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.