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Maintenance Mechanic

The maintenance mechanic position is responsible for performing highly diversified duties to install, maintain, and repair food processing and packaging equipment. Including packaging filling and sealing machines, bucket scales, conveyors, motors, robotics, hoists, sorters, labelers, scanners, roller beds, and utility equipment utilizing predictive maintenance systems and processes to support the achievement of the factory business goals and objectives.

Core hours: 10pm-6:30am. Position requires ability to work overtime. As a result, it may require working varying start times, end times, and weekends dependent on business needs.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Maintain and repair food processing and packaging equipment and associated components
• Installs and maintains gearboxes, shafts, bearings, bushings, sprockets, sheaves, belts, and general mechanical equipment. Performs equipment lubrication
• Installs and maintains electric motors, motor starters, sensors, switches, and general electric/electronic devices
• Troubleshoots and maintains pneumatic and hydraulic systems
• Analyzes mechanical operations of production equipment and initiates maintenance and repair actions as needed
• Uses Computerized Maintenance Management System to report completed work
• Generates parts requisitions using parts inventory control system
• Completes preventive maintenance routines as assigned
• Identifies root cause of problems. Proposes and implements solutions

Desired skills and experience:

• Strong mechanical aptitude
• Able to perform precision alignment of pumps, motors, gearboxes, sprockets, and sheaves
• Experience with troubleshooting and maintaining pneumatic systems, air compressors, hydraulic systems, mechanical power, pumps, gearboxes, valves, heat exchangers, and mechanical components
• Ability to perform basic electrical troubleshooting
• Experience completing preventive maintenance activities
• Welding experience preferred (MIG, TIG)
• Ability to read schematics, blueprints, and equipment manuals
• Understanding of shop equipment (mill, lathe, grinder, bend, break, shear, and press)
• Able to work with minimum supervision and be results driven, proactive, able to work effectively individually and within a team
• Excellent communication skills, able to clearly articulate issues, opportunities and risk
• Ability to analyze problems and error conditions, identify root causes, and implement viable long-term solutions
• Versed in lock-out/tag-out procedures

All of the above duties and responsibilities will be performed in a safe, efficient and professional manner while practicing all GMP's and working with limited supervision.

Inherent in each position is a general duty to maintain each respective work area in a safe and sanitary condition. The employee may be required to perform other such duties within the scope of their employment as may be assigned. Regular, predictable, full-time attendance is required as an essential function of this position. Wages, hours, and working conditions are outlined in a Collective Bargaining Agreement between Jelly Belly Candy Company and Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grainmillers International Union, AFL-CIO, Local #125. Overtime as outlined in the Collective Bargaining Agreement is mandatory. An essential function of this job is a requirement to work all hours scheduled.

Qualifications to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• High school Diploma/GED

Minimum 2 years of industrial mechanical experience or completion of craft apprenticeship or an Associate's Degree in a maintenance-related field.

Equivalent combination of education and paid on the job experience in an industrial maintenance shop will be considered. Must have strong mechanical and troubleshooting skills, and be familiar with common shop equipment and tools. Have basic electrical knowledge, be able to use measuring devices, and have basic computer skills.

Packaging, Bottling, Air Craft Maintenance, Mechatronics, Automation, Industrial repair facility, Sheet metal shop, and/or installation experience preferred.

To be considered under the "equivalent combination of education and experience" provision, it is the applicant's responsibility to include in the application materials, written evidence of employment performed at the level of the typical duties of this position and/or coursework in subject areas directly related to this position.

Language skills include the ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

Mathematical skills include the ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Reasoning ability includes the ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical demands include the ability to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment characteristics include the ability to work near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to risk of electrical shock. The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme heat, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

At Ferrara, we're proud to support our employees by providing comprehensive benefits such as health insurance, dental insurance, a 401(k), and paid time off (PTO). Eligible employees may also receive an annual bonus based on company performance.

**All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.**