About the role
Requirements:
- Minimum 3-year experience working as a mechanic in the food industry environment or similar
- High school education or the equivalent
- Demonstrated work experience in a team environment
- Demonstrate a high level of mechanical skills and knowledge
- Demonstrated ability to learn and use custom equipment and assist in installations
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Initiative to work independently
Responsibilities:
- Performs preventative maintenance on a wide variety of packaging and processing equipment.
- Specifies parts required. Orders if needed, and makes needed repairs based on PM.
- Assists with training new and/or less skilled maintenance and production personnel.
- Troubleshoots basic electrical problems using various test equipment and ladder logic diagrams.
- Troubleshoots mechanical problems using various measurement equipment and mechanical expertise.
- Devises, plans, and completes mechanical upgrades, modifications and overhauls.
- Completes changeovers on production lines by following changeover check sheet and recommends modifications to the sheet as needed.
- Performs routine daily setup and adjustment of all production equipment.
Preferred:
- Ability to speak both English and Spanish
- Experience with Cloud Machine, Liquid Fill Machines, Ribbon Blenders, Bartlets machine and cartoners or other horizontal pouch fill machines.
- Experience in Food Industrial environment and Good Manufacturing Practices.
Must be able to:
- Lift, carry or move light/heavy loads up to 50 lbs.
- Ability to perform duties in extreme varying temperatures.
- Crawl over, under and into equipment as necessary to perform job duties.
- Work weekends when plant enters busy season and when needed.
- Work on floors that are slippery due to water, gelatin, or dust accumulation.
- Work on electrical equipment in a safe and responsible manner.
Hormel Foods provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race; color; sex; gender identity; sexual orientation; religious practices and observances; national origin; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; status as a protected veteran or spouse/family member of a protected veteran; or disability.
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