Preventive Maintenance Technician

The Preventive Maintenance Technician will play a vital role of ensuring UDA plant, warehouses, and facilities are operating, with minimal downtime, by performing preventive and predictive mechanical and electrical repairs.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

- Perform preventive and predictive mechanical and electrical repairs for all UDA plants, warehouses, and facilities

- Collect and perform laboratory water quality tests

- Monitor and calibrate on-line water quality equipment

- Regularly provide prompt and detailed technical assistance for a variety of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and refrigeration conditions

- Perform a variety of routine industrial pneumatic diagnostics and maintenance for valves, banks, and fittings

- Perform a routine maintenance to PVC, copper, stainless-steel fittings, and other plumbing fixtures throughout facility

- Manage multiple simultaneous projects and prioritize maintenance orders by level of urgency and age

- Document and log completed maintenance tasks into CMMS system and provide regular updates to maintenance team

- Maintain a clean and organized work area

- Always maintain food safety and quality standards, resolving and/or reporting compliance issues immediately.

*Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications:

General Skills & Abilities needed to complete job successfully:

- Basic understanding of: Industrial electrical, pneumatic, boiler, refrigeration systems, motor, compressors, gearboxes, and pumps

- Detail oriented with the ability to effectively diagnose, troubleshoot, and conduct complex repairs

- Basic understanding of lubrication principles and techniques including bearing types and usage

- Prior experience conducting utility and HVAC/R maintenance

- Ability to operate equipment including a forklift, and various lifts

- Team-player mentality with the ability to self-manage and prioritize time, tasks, and projects

- Basic typing skills and familiarity with computer programs such as a CMMS or EAM

- Ability to work rotating schedules, weekends, holidays, and be on-call

Experience: (required)

- 1+ years of industrial maintenance experience

Experience: (preferred)

- General knowledge of food and beverage industry preferred

Education/Certifications: (Required)

- Industrial maintenance or mechanical technical school certification

Work Environment & Demands
Physical and environmental demands for this position are indicated below: (check all that are applicable)

Physical Demands:

- Standing and walking for extended periods of time

- Occasional bending, crouching, stooping, twisting, reaching and grasping

- Ability to climb stairs

- Some lifting, up to 25 pounds

- Requires ability to walk and stand for 12 or more hours at a time

- Requires ability to safely operate equipment by visually observing the condition of equipment and surroundings

- Requires ability to hear and speak, occasionally in high time weighted average environments with elevated decibel readings (using appropriate hearing protection)

- Requires ability to walk, stand, stoop, bend, reach, lift, push, pull and carry items up to 55lbs

- Requires ability to push and pull items up to 150lbs

- Requires ability to climb ladders and stairs of various heights occasionally including floors of 100ft or more, with appropriate fall protection PPE

- Requires ability to work in varying extreme hot, cold, and wet temperatures and conditions

- Requires ability to work in confined spaces frequently

- Requires ability to work safely with hazardous chemicals

- Ability to safely operate a forklift occasionally

Environment:

- Production floor

- Able to work 12-hour shifts

Other Duties

The above job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by employees assigned to this job title. This is not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Employees will be expected to perform duties that do not appear on the job description. Management reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.

EEO Statement:

UDA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.