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Newport Meat & Seafood is Now Hiring Food Production Maintenance Technicians Lvl. III!

Earn $26.63 - $40.00 per Hour*

Tool Allowance + Comprehensive Healthcare Package

The Production Technician III role is essential for supporting the operations team and is responsible for planning and performing highly diversified duties to include installing, moving, repairing and preventive maintenance on production equipment throughout the facility. Perform 5S and Lean manufacturing activities including material handling improvements, production line configuration, and safety procedures.

Job Details:

• Earn $26.63 - $40.00 per hour*
• Comprehensive healthcare package
• Tool allowance
• Industry-leading total rewards package
• Paid vacation accrued starting on the 1st of the month on or after 60 days of employment
• Holiday pay and sick time

*Based on experience

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Champions company and industry standard safety policies and procedures - OSHA, NEC, NFPA, USDA, FDA, etc. Recognize, escalate, and action unsafe work conditions and engages with co-workers to ensure conditions and behaviors comply with policies. Make suggestions to improve safe work practices and procedures as appropriate
• Develop and execute inspections and preventive/predictive maintenance tasks on production and process utility equipment to increase quality, safety, and overall equipment reliability
• Diagnose and repair production and process utility equipment deficiencies and failures; to include, but not limited to mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic equipment. May include facility repairs as needed
• Use continuous improvements tools and methods to improve equipment reliability, may include root cause analysis (RCA), failure mode analysis (FMA) and make recommendations to prevent recurrence. Coach and train team members on RCA and FMA
• Champion and lead production equipment rebuilds, line moves, installations, setups, and calibrations. Work with OEM's on emergency repairs as needed
• Read and interpret equipment work orders, manuals, assembly diagrams, electrical schematics, and P&ID's to perform required maintenance and service. Coach and train team members on reading and interpreting said technical documents
• Responsible for effectively managing assigned planned work, unplanned failures, and work orders in a high-paced, fluid work environment
• Responsible for accurately and concisely logging work orders in computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to properly track maintenance and equipment performance metrics; to include labor, equipment uptime, preventive maintenance compliance, MTTR, MTBF, part usage, etc.

Qualifications:

Required Experience:

• Five (5) plus years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing setting
• Experience using lockout tagout, job hazard analysis, hot work permits, confined space, etc.
• Experience working in a food processing environment and familiar with USDA, FDA, and SQF policies and procedures

Preferred Experience:

• 1 year experience in a leadership role
• Experience with the use of condition diagnostic techniques including vibration analysis, oil analysis, ultrasonic testing, and thermographic testing

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