Description

Alsum Companies, a grower, packer, and shipper of potatoes & onions located in Friesland, WI is looking for a full-time Second Shift Industrial Maintenance Technician. You would perform routine, preventative, and emergency maintenance in our packing facility. Do you like hands-on work and solving problems? Would you enjoy being able to save the day? Are you looking for a Maintenance position where you will be valued? If so, read on!

A Day in the Life of an Alsum Farms & Produce Industrial Maintenance Technician

As a Maintenance Technician, you arrive each day ready to ensure that all our operations can perform. We focus on preventative and proactive maintenance. Of course, there are occasional emergency fixes required. When work orders are submitted, we assign the work order to the appropriate maintenance technician. Next, the maintenance technician arrives at the job site and discusses the concern with the production personnel that initiated the work order. The Maintenance Technician is responsible for collecting information to diagnose the issue and decide if preventive maintenance or corrective maintenance is required. Once production operates the equipment to standard, the maintenance technician closes out the work order. They are responsible for documenting the proper failure codes, failure causes, time taken to complete the job, and any other information required in the synopsis.

Why the Maintenance Technician position is important to Alsum Companies: Poorly maintained resources can completely stop production & operations. We need people like you to help maintain the facilities so we can provide field to fork potatoes to the dinner tables of Americans.

Job Details

Job Type: Full-time

Job Schedule: 2:30pm-11:00pm

Salary: $22.00-$31.00 per hour depending on experience

Work Location: Friesland, WI

Travel Requirements: None

Requirements

You may be perfect for this Maintenance Technician position if you:

• Have previous maintenance experience
• Have a valid driver's license, a reliable vehicle, and can provide your hand tools
• Are a dependable team player with troubleshooting and critical thinking skills
• Are an initiative-taker with a positive, can-do attitude
• Take ownership of tasks
• Have excellent customer service skills
• Have a desire to be effective at work
• Have technical certifications (preferred but not required)

Physical/Environmental Demands

• Prolonged periods standing and walking
• Able to bend, stretch, push, pull, and move as needed to reach, clean, and service machinery
• Must be able to visually inspect machines
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 100 pounds
• Must wear safety glasses and hearing protection in designated areas
• Exposure to airborne particles or fumes
• Perform repairs at heights greater than 20 feet
• Ability to withstand cold and warm working conditions

Alsum Benefits

Alsum Farms & Produce offers its full-time (30 hours or more) employees:

• Employer contributed health plan
• Employer paid life insurance
• Voluntary dental, life, disability, and vision insurance
• Onsite fitness center
• Vacation and holiday pay
• Profit sharing
• 401(k) with company match
• Employee discounts
• Educational assistance program

The Alsum Story

The story began nearly five decades ago in a 600 square foot potato shed, with one man, Glen Alsum, one vision, and a work ethic framed by dedication and service. Today, there are 350,000 square feet of sheds and production space, almost 325 full-time and seasonal employees, and 200,000,000 pounds of potatoes produced annually and that doesn’t include onions, pumpkins and other fresh produce that are distributed to grocery stores and warehouse retailers across the country.

We pack under the Alsum Farms & Produce brand plus many national brands and customer labels. Alsum offers a wide variety of packaging options from 12 ounces up to 50-pound packs; and in poly, mesh, paper or cartons all from one shed.

And that work ethic? It’s still framed by dedication, a commitment to service, and a belief in providing a field-to-fork, vertically integrated business approach that incorporates growing and harvesting, production, packaging, and distribution, all under the umbrella of unrelenting quality.

As time ticks by, the mission, vision and values haven’t changed, although the generations of leadership have. Since 1981, Larry Alsum has been at the helm of Alsum Farms & Produce, with his daughters, Wendy Alsum-Dykstra and Heidi Alsum-Randall, poised to take over when Larry, who’s been in agriculture his entire life, retires.

Corporate Responsibility

We do business by:

• Conserving and restoring the Wisconsin acreage we are privileged to farm and protecting the surrounding wildlife and ecosystems
• Partnering with growers and suppliers committed to sustainability
• Providing consumers with safe, fresh, quality Wisconsin potatoes, onions, fruits and vegetables
• Ensuring our employees have a safe business environment to work in, one that rewards them for their commitment and encourages them to advance
• Being a company that “pays it forward” — helping others in our community and inspiring others to do the same

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug Free Workplace