Are you an experienced Industrial Maintenance professional who wants to earn up to $95,000/year and top-notch benefits for your mechanical and electrical aptitude? Take advantage of this full-time role with a flexible schedule, strong leadership, and plenty of room for advancement! Thrive in this career where you will be able to take your skills to the next level.
Sonac, leading producer of reliable, sustainable ingredients for the food, pet food and feed markets worldwide, is seeking an Industrial Maintenance Technician – Local Travel to join our team in Maquoketa, IA. This is a pivotal role where you will perform troubleshooting and general maintenance of equipment at our primary production plant and supply facilities, ensuring safe and efficient operation of all machinery and equipment.
If you have at least 2 years of technical industrial maintenance mechanic experience in an industrial/manufacturing environment, excellent troubleshooting skills, and a valid driver’s license, this is a career you need to explore. Must be willing to travel to client sites on average 2-3 nights per week. All local/regional travel. All travel expenses are fully covered + a company vehicle!
Why you should join our team:
- Excellent pay – Maintenance Technicians can expect to earn up to $95,000/year, $28-$35/hr paid hourly, based on experience and overtime worked.
- Great benefits – medical, dental, vision, profit sharing, paid time off, discounted gym membership
- Guaranteed contribution to your 401(k) account
- Advancement opportunities – We are always looking for key players motivated to move up into higher level roles.
- Sonac covers all travel expenses and provides a company vehicle that must be picked up at the office.
Essential duties and responsibilities:
- Locates source of problems by observing mechanical devices in operation, listening for problems, and using precision measuring and testing instruments.
- Fabricates needed repair parts and other items by using maintenance shop machinery and equipment.
- Read and interpret drawings, blueprints, electrical code specifications and schematics in order to effectively troubleshoot, maintain and repair equipment.
- Diagnose, locate the cause of, and repair malfunctioning systems and components using test equipment.
- Ensures proper completion of preventive maintenance requirements.
- Assists to develop and improve current preventive maintenance instructions and practices.
- Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with all directives, procedures, rules, and regulations related to personal safety, manufacturing practices and protection of the products.
- Properly completes maintenance records as required to document the maintenance process. These include, but are not limited to: Work Orders, Hot Work Permits, Confined Space Entry Permits, Clean Tags, High Care Intervention forms, Parts order Log, and Inventory use sheets.
- Uses computerized records to document maintenance activities.
- Assists in maintaining adequate spare equipment, parts, and supply inventories by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed equipment, parts, and supplies; placing requests for needed equipment and identifying and up-channeling shortages.
- Required to be on call on a rotating basis for maintenance coverage of operational hours outside of normally assigned work hours.
- Travels to supply sites as needed to perform maintenance, training, and troubleshooting of collection systems.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Manufacturing environment experience with liquid products preferred.
- Ability to manage time effectively, work independently, and display solid follow up techniques.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Exceptional problem solving & organizational skills; works proactively, able to multi-task.
- Proficient computer skills.
Physical demands:
- Frequently required to sit, reach with hands and arms
- Occasionally walk, stand, balance, stoop, bend and kneel
- Occasionally must push, pull, move or lift up to 50 lbs
- Regularly required to reach with hands and arms
Work environment:
Job functions will be carried out in a manufacturing environment; the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
About Sonac: Sonac is the world’s leading producers of animal bi-products, with manufacturing facilities worldwide; operating 3 shifts, 6 to 7 days a week. Sonac is a leading producer of reliable, sustainable ingredients for the food, pet food, and feed industries as well as fertilizer, oleochemical, and pharmaceutical markets worldwide. Operating on a unique residuals-to-resources concept, we process raw materials of animal origin, developing proteins, minerals, fats, gelatins, and numerous other specialty ingredients. Our constant aim is to help manufacturers in diverse industries improve recipes and reach the highest quality levels, while also improving their environmental performance.
Sonac is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military service, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state and local law. Know Your Rights: If you would like more information, please click on the link and paste into your browser: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster
