Maintenance Mechanic

Job Title: Maintenance Mechanic

Job Description

We are currently looking for maintenance mechanics within a food/beverage production environment:
– Must be knowledgeable and proficient in the operation, repair, and normal maintenance of the production machinery and equipment.
– Adhere to all policies in critical areas when maintenance is required.
– Skilled and experienced in welding and automation.
– Capable of reading and understanding electrical and pneumatic schematics.
– Communicate with operators, production line mechanics, and management about machinery issues as required.
– Prepare, organize, and handle improvement projects for machinery and equipment as directed by management.
– Attendance to maintenance meetings as required.
– Organize and handle all suppliers and/or contractors as needed.
– Follow the preventive maintenance schedule.
– Reduce production downtime by making needed repairs on the production line a top priority.
– Responsible for maintenance and greasing of machines.
– Proper documentation must be submitted when modifications are required.
– Responsible for accurate documentation of all maintenance completed in the maintenance logbook and recording all greasing performed on the greasing report.
– Responsible for inventory of parts and overall cleanliness of the maintenance shop.
– The production maintenance technician is in charge of startup and shutdown of the production lines.
– Assist in the responsibility of giving breaks to operators. Communicate with the line director/shift leader to receive instruction as to who to break and at what times.
– Must be skilled in the operation of all production line equipment and prepared to successfully operate the machinery in the case of an operator’s absence.

Hard Skills

Industrial Maintenance Experience

Experience in production machinery troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair

Experience in food production maintenance (preferred)

Welding

Automation

Reading and understanding electrical and pneumatic schematics

Soft Skills

Effective communication with operators, production line mechanics, and management

Organizational skills for handling projects and suppliers/contractors

Attention to detail for accurate documentation

Proactive problem-solving to reduce production downtime

Job Type

This is a Contract-to-Hire position with a duration of 6 Month(s).

Work Site

This is a fully on-site position in Johnstown, New York.

Work Environment

Clean, well-lit facility, comfortable working environment, high-speed food manufacturing facility

About Aerotek:

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000 light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000 employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500 experienced recruiters across 250 offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.