Maintenance Technician - Night Shift - Blair

Reports to: Maintenance Engineer Manager

Company Overview

Calcium Products has been helping farmers grow better crops for nearly 40 years. As a leader in calcium-based fertilizers, we manufacture 98G pelletized limestone and SO4 pelletized gypsum for a wide network of ag retailers across the Midwest. We are a stable, growing, people-focused company that takes pride in the work we do and the customers we serve.

As we continue to invest in our Iowa facilities, we are also expanding our footprint with new locations, including a new plant in Blair, Nebraska. To support this long-term growth, we are now recruiting a Maintenance Technician-Night Shift position for the Blair facility (5pm-5am).

**Anticipated Start Date is last week of October for this position**

**Expect two weeks of hands-on operational training in Fort Dodge, IA.**

Position summary & purpose:

Executes preventive and predictive maintenance and associated repairs on all assigned equipment. Initiates and leads repairs due to unplanned plant breakdowns. Alerts supervisor of any safety, environmental, or mechanical efficiency issues that should be addressed immediately or scheduled at the next available opportunity.

Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Comply with all health and safety practices and procedures
• Provide detailed statuses of completed or on-going repairs, preventative and predictive maintenance
• Comply with standard operating procedures and reporting/recording requirements
• Assist contractors and ensure they have all repair instructions, PM documentation and parts to properly execute work
• Assist maintenance supervisor in auditing the work done by contractors
• Participate in training as provided and required by company directives
• Perform high tech predictive maintenance utilizing tools such as the thermographic camera and ultrasonic tester
• Clean and organize work areas after PMs and repairs are completed. Support operations team in keeping an overall clean and organized plant
• Execute and ensure information in repair report is accurate, including root causes and parts usage
• Responsible for the maintenance of all mobile equipment
• Responsible for the care and safe usage of the large vacuum trailer and any other complex pieces of maintenance/cleaning equipment

Education and Experience:

• Highschool degree or equivalent required
• 2 years of experience in heavy industrial maintenance
• Experience in aggregates processing is ideal
• Strong problem-solving skills and mechanical aptitude

. Familiarity in blueprints, schematics and properly written preventative maintenance routines

• Ability to build trust and respect without relying on authority

. Effective communicator