Responsible for the general maintenance; hydraulic and electronic systems while ensuring maximum production quality and quantity while promoting safety throughout the maintenance department.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Assist with reducing downtime and increase efficiencies when completing repairs and maintenance equipment.
Works toward accomplishing objectives regarding production, technology, and resource needs.
Complete all assigned installs, test, maintenance, and repair of facilities and equipment.
Assist with strategies to reduce mechanical downtime and keep product flow and production.
Participate in all maintenance training to keep up with the most updated version of operating procedures.
Assist when possible with the operation of plant equipment and systems to minimize unplanned downtime and anticipate problems to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Complete maintenance KPIs such as asset utilization, maintenance cost PM, and are finalized as scheduled.
Follows all safety, health, and environmental policies while maintenance equipment. Any other duties as assigned by direct supervisor.
Requirements
Education and/or Experience
High School diploma or knowledge equivalent too.
Must have 2 years of industrial maintenance experience in a food manufacturing facility.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating instructions, and procedure manuals.
Thorough knowledge of world-class maintenance management systems, work order processes, preventive/predictive maintenance, TPM, etc.
Demonstrates required skills; adapts to new technologies; troubleshoots technological problems; uses technology to increase productivity; keeps technical skills up to date.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact with all levels of management and customers.
Ability to plan work on a daily schedule, work independently and be a highly motivated individual.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals and apply those concepts to practical situations.
Excellent organizational skills, ability to multi-task and to work with accuracy and attention to detail.
Ability to perform this job successfully, an individual should have a high proficiency of Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) Word Processing software.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms; climb ladders and platforms or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must be able to enter confined spaces wearing all applicable safety equipment. The employee may be required regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; extreme cold and extreme heat. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
Benefits
Agriculture has changed a lot since 1983 when Bill and Marsha Prestage started Prestage Farms in North Carolina. But today, we still farm and operate our businesses with the same family values they instilled 40 years ago as we strive to produce top-quality pork and turkey.
The Prestage Farms family of companies now includes our base in North Carolina as well as farm production divisions located in South Carolina, Mississippi, Iowa, and Oklahoma. In addition, we have three different protein processing divisions: Prestage Foods in North Carolina (turkey) and Prestage Foods of Iowa (pork), and Prestage Foods in South Carolina (turkey).
Our Prestage Farms and Prestage Foods team of more than 2,700 employees and 450 contractor farm families share a commitment to food safety and the well-being of our animals, our environment, and our communities that we call home. Together, we embrace the Prestage family values of doing each job well and treating people fairly while continually looking for ways to improve and advance the processes that allow us to produce the highest quality pork and turkey at a reasonable cost.
