TITLE: Maintenance Mechanic DIVISION: FI&ADEPT: Maintenance LOCATION: Rochester, MNI. ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:A. Reports to: Maintenance SupervisorB. Directly Supervises: NoneC. Indirectly Supervises: NoneII. ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:Demonstrates leadership in the area of safety. This requires observing and enforcing safety rules and practices, encouraging safe work behaviors, and promptly correcting conditions and unsafe behavior, which may lead to accidents.Continually endorse the Quality & Food Safety Policies, assure conformance to all requirements of the Quality & Food Safety Management Systems, & take action to properly report failures of these systems to site management.III. GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY:Repairs plant equipment, installs new equipment, and performs building maintenance as directed by the Maintenance Supervisor. Relieves Boiler Operators as licensing and schedules necessitate.IV. MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.A. Essential Functions:1. Work with various hand tools, power tools, welders and cutting equipment to repair plant equipment.2. Troubleshoot and repair electrical equipment; work with low voltage DC and 120, 220 and 480 volt AC power based on Electrician guidelines.3. Repair, assembly and installation of various valves, food grade and non-food grade.4. Must be able to perform rotating equipment repair such as replacement of seals, impeller, casings and bearings.5. Repair refrigeration and air conditioning equipment; work with ammonia and Freon with proper licensing.6. Serves as "on call outside of standard scheduled hours, as determined by the on-call schedule. During on-call times, must be available via phone and to come on site as requests necessitate.7. Based on skill, may install sanitary and non-sanitary welded and threaded low pressure piping.B. Marginal Functions:1. Performs relief work as a Boiler Mechanic, as licensing and schedules necessitate.2. Operate forklift and aerial lifts.3. Help as required in the parts storeroom.VI. JOB SPECIFICATIONS:A. EDUCATION: High school diploma or GED. Certificate or degree from an accredited maintenance or tech program. State of Minnesota First or Second Class B Boiler license desired.B. EXPERIENCE: 2 years experience required. Prior experience in a food manufacturing facility preferred.C. TESTING: Employee most take competency testing.D. SKILLS Mechanical Repair, General Welding, some Electrical Troubleshooting, ability to use hand tools, hand-held power tools, a drill press, and basic computer skills including the ability to access email and the internet.Must have the ability to work alone and in close cooperation with production personnel. Capable of working through complex problems alone or with others to provide logical solutionsVII. WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:A Maintenance Mechanic will be subject to working in areas of high noise level and in areas of hazards from wet floors. Burn hazards may exist when working on steam powered equipment. High degree of mobility is necessary as job requires much climbing, crawling, bending, and twisting. The ability to lift long and heavy lengths of pipe above the head and work from ladders, manlifts, etc. sometimes at heights exceeding 20 feet above the floor is required. Vessel entry and working in confined spaces may be required.The ability to work outside for periods of time in temperatures varying from below zero to above 100F is also required. The ability to apply force to lift heavy equipment and operate wrenches, hammers, pry bars, etc. and apply sufficient force to tighten large nuts and bolts is also required. The ability to regularly lift 25 lbs is required as well as the ability to occasionally lift 50 lbs.Specific vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus. A keen auditory sense is required to diagnose equipment problems.

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The Fountain Group LLC