Trident Seafoods is the largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company in North America. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with primary seafood processing operations and fleet support in twelve Alaska communities. Trident's global operations produce finished wild Alaska seafood products in 6 countries and its sales teams serve customers in over 50 countries. Trident employs approximately 9,000 people worldwide each year and partners with over 5,400 independent fishermen and crewmembers. Species harvested and processed by Trident include virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska. The global supply chain also includes cultured and wild species from a network of trusted sources worldwide.

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Summary: The Maintenance Lead directs and coordinates activities of vendors and Maintenance Mechanics engaged in repair, maintenance, installation of machines, tools, and equipment. In addition, the Maintenance Lead also assists with the maintenance of the buildings, grounds and utility systems of the plant. The Maintenance Lead will report up to the Shift Maintenance Supervisor and assist in the strategic needs of the department.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manages maintenance work requests from production floor by determining priority and assigning work orders to technicians.
• Verifies completion of assigned work orders by technicians
• Enforces departmental use of Lock Out Tag Out as defined by the company policy.
• Ensures team members comply with all safety and good manufacturing practices.
• Communicates to Production and Quality Assurance departments equipment breakdowns and estimated times for repair completion.
• Works with management, vendors, engineering, and quality control personnel to resolve maintenance issues and recommend measures to improve operations and conditions of machines and equipment.
• Audits work of team members to ensure that standards are being met.
• Conducts daily meetings at the end of each shift to update incoming maintenance personnel on status of breakdowns, repairs and troubleshooting completed during previous shift.
• Maintains shop cleanliness, including the office and outside staging area.
• Communicates daily shift pass down report via designated email distribution.
• Dismantle equipment to gain access to and remove defective parts.
• Examines form and texture of parts regularly to remove defective parts.
• Lubricates and cleans parts, equipment, and machinery.
• Tests and adjusts equipment to meet performance specifications.
• Sets up and operates lathe, drill press, grinder, saws, and other metalworking tools to make and repair parts.
• Communicates to Supervisor parts needs.
• Repairs electrical equipment.
• Represents the Maintenance department as needed for cross functional meetings.
• Ensures shift is meeting department KPIs and CMMS compliance.
• Follows up on Downtime items and aids in root cause analysis.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Acquires knowledge of Trident's Environmental and Safety Policies by completing required training programs and performing designated work activities in accordance with training and procedures/work instructions.
• Notifies designated personnel of any environmental or safety incidents or risks not previously documented, in accordance with Environmental Awareness and/or safety trainings.
• All other duties as assigned.
• Verify PMs are Completed accurately.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of 3 years of Maintenance Mechanic experience in a manufacturing environment.
• One year certificate from a college or technical school or equivalent experience.
• Ability to operate a variety of hand tools including welding machines, cutting torches, pipe/tube cutters, power drills/saws, calipers.
• Prior work with a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Experience with interpreting a variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience in a food processing environment.
• Previous leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
• PLC troubleshooting experience.
• VFD programing experience.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.

The employee is frequently required to climb or balance.

The employee is occasionally required to sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.

The employee moves objects.

• regularly up to 10 pounds
• frequently up to 25 pounds
• occasionally up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.

Trident Seafoods is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age and genetic information.

Trident Seafoods has adopted a drug-free workplace policy. Pre-employment drug examinations are required for all employees.

Any employment offer from Trident Seafoods is contingent upon the candidate maintaining valid immigration status and work authorization throughout employment, without any need for immigration sponsorship by the company.