Maintenance Technician - Wed​/Thur & e​/o Fri-Sun

Location

This is an onsite role at the Chaseburg Creamery in Chaseburg, WI.

Wednesday and Thursday: 6 pm–6 am; every other Friday: 6 pm–6 am;
Saturday and Sunday: 6 pm–6 am.

Hourly

Eligible for a 3% annual bonus incentive based on cooperative and individual performance.

Yes

The Maintenance Technician is a versatile and flexible role designed to ensure seamless operations of the Chaseburg Creamery. Provide multi-craft (mechanical/electrical/controls) maintenance for a highly automated dairy facility. Ensure safe, compliant and reliable operation of production, packaging, and utility systems—including FDA/State-regulated pasteurization equipment, Weights & Measures sealed systems, and robotics—while maintaining documentation to meet food safety and regulatory requirements. This is a safety sensitive role in a 24/7, 365 dairy processing operation.

Occasional on‑call is required for vacation and absence coverage.

• Perform all tasks safely and in compliance with OSHA and Organic Valley safety policies by modeling safe behaviors, properly using required safety equipment (including fall protection), and actively promoting a strong safety culture.
• Adhere to FDA, USDA, WDATCP, GMPs, and Organic Valley food safety requirements, including following written procedures and maintaining required documentation related to maintenance activities.
• Perform maintenance and repairs in production areas in a sanitary manner, following established policies and collaborating with Quality Assurance and Production to prevent product contamination or loss.
• Protect product quality by promptly addressing equipment and facility issues, maintaining tool and material accountability, and clearly communicating repair completion and sanitation needs to production leadership.
• Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain automated butter processing, packaging, and robotic equipment, including PLC controlled systems, metal detection, case packing, and palletizing.
• Maintain core production and process equipment such as churns, centrifuges, pumps, conveyors, fillers, checkweighers, cartoners, and high pressure systems.
• Maintain HTST pasteurizers and CIP/COP systems in compliance with PMO and WI DATCP requirements, supporting sanitary, hygienic maintenance practices.
• Calibrate, verify, and document process instrumentation and inspection systems, including flow, pressure, temperature, level, CIP conductivity, and metal detection.
• Maintain Weights & Measures sealed scaling systems and use electrical and calibration test equipment to verify signals, preserve seals, and support required inspections and compliance.
• Operate, monitor, and maintain utility systems including ammonia refrigeration and glycol cooling, boilers and steam systems, RO water, compressed air, HVAC, and facility ventilation to support safe and reliable operations.
• Maintain electrical and control systems up to 480 VAC (including motors, panels, VFDs, lighting, and controls) in accordance with NFPA 70E and applicable safety standards.
• Operate, monitor, and maintain the wastewater pretreatment system—including DAF, lift stations, and equalization tanks—to meet Village of Chaseburg and WI DNR discharge and stormwater compliance requirements.
• Inspect, clean, repair, and document wastewater and environmental systems (pumps, skimmers, probes, control panels), including sampling, testing, trend tracking, alarms, and corrective actions.
• Execute preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance using Limble (CMMS), iOffice (building maintenance), and Halo (Quality Request System); accurately close work orders and update equipment history.
• Read, interpret, and maintain P&IDs, electrical schematics, OEM manuals, and as‑built documentation; support spare parts management and reliability initiatives (MTBF/MTTR, root cause analysis).
• Coordinate contractor and vendor work, manage parts and materials, support after hours/weekend repairs, and participate in the on‑call rotation to minimize downtime and ensure coverage.

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