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Ammonia Refrigeration Technician
$42.00 – $44.00/Hour Premium Overtime • Greater Madison Area, WI • 2nd Shift • Full Benefits Package
This opportunity offers a stable direct-hire career anchor for a specialized refrigeration professional who is tired of dealing with erratic on-call service routes, driving thousands of miles in a service van, or working for volatile contractors. Operating as a prestigious, century-old food manufacturing leader in the Greater Madison area, this organization has built a fierce reputation over the past 100 years on a simple concept: treating employees with respect, valuing specialized technical skills, and maintaining elite multi-decade team retention numbers.
The organization views its technical staff as the absolute backbone of the entire operation. Leadership invests heavily in professional growth from day one, offering full corporate funding for RETA training and credentials to those who do not currently hold them. You will join a collaborative, highly professional 2nd shift where safety is a living priority managed under strict Process Safety Management (PSM) guidelines. If you are looking for a fixed, predictable schedule with zero travel, an elite hourly pay structure—featuring time-and-a-half after 8 daily hours and guaranteed double-time on Sundays—and the absolute stability of a multi-generation industry leader, this environment is built for your trade.
What You Will Be Doing
- Execute comprehensive preventive maintenance, critical fault-tracing, and emergency breakdown repairs across high-capacity industrial ammonia refrigeration systems, screw compressors, evaporators, and condensing towers.
- Troubleshoot, maintain, and repair complex plant industrial electrical systems, 3-phase power distribution networks, motor control centers (MCCs), and automated production machinery controls.
- Partner directly with the environmental safety team to support absolute compliance with all Process Safety Management (PSM) blueprints and safety protocols.
- Perform a variety of high-level industrial mechanical and plant facility infrastructure maintenance tasks to keep production running smoothly across the 2nd shift.
- Maintain detailed, digital documentation of all system readings, daily compliance logs, and completed work orders to ensure an immaculate manufacturing environment.
What We Are Looking For
- Ammonia industry track record featuring a minimum of 2 years of verifiable, hands-on experience troubleshooting and maintaining industrial ammonia refrigeration systems ($NH_3$); this is a strict baseline requirement.
- Industrial electrical fluency backed by at least 2 years of solid experience diagnosing industrial electrical networks, controls, and high-voltage distribution safely.
- Schedule commitment showing absolute readiness and lifestyle alignment to succeed within a permanent 2nd shift block on a consistent Monday through Friday schedule.
- Professional reliability and a rock-solid, stable, and highly dependable employment history that proves you value team accountability and long-term commitment.
- Local commute and permanent residency established within a comfortable, daily 45-minute driving radius of the Greater Madison, WI area.
Salary : $80,000 - $92,000