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Mechanic Technician

McCain Foods
Wisconsin Rapids, WI Full Time
POSTED ON 11/4/2025 CLOSED ON 1/4/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mechanic Technician position at McCain Foods?

Position Title:Mechanic Technician

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Plover

Requisition ID: 39094

Key Responsibilities: In this role, you will ensure the mechanical and electrical functionality of our plant and field equipment while maintaining compliance with safety, quality, state, federal, and company guidelines. In this hands[1]on role, you'll inspect, maintain, modify, fabricate, and repair agricultural machinery and systems, troubleshoot issues, and implement improvements to reduce downtime and costs. You'll also perform routine and emergency maintenance, keep detailed records in our CMMS system, and ensure clean, organized workspaces that meet food safety standards. Working closely with project managers, contractors, and engineers, you'll provide technical expertise while staying up to date on OSHA, NEC/70E, and other regulations. A valid forklift license is required, and you may occasionally oversee temporary contract workers.

Qualifications

  • Must demonstrate commitment to personal, product, asset, and site safety.
  • Must proactively follow all PPE requirements, safety policies, and safety regulations.
  • Must demonstrate electromechanical aptitude, technical proficiency, and consistent attention to detail.
  • Must display work-related initiative, independence, and self-motivation to work with minimal supervision.
  • Must possess own tools to safely perform assigned tasks.
  • Must comprehend mechanical drawings, electrical prints, asset schematics, wiring diagrams, etc.

Skills

  • Experience with, or training on, working safely with 480-volt 3-phase power.
  • Basic knowledge of power distribution, control wiring, and related components.
  • Basic understanding of PLC functions.
  • Basic understanding of VFD functionality and servo or process controllers.
  • Basic electrical troubleshooting and one-for-one component replacement skills, including methods to acknowledge and interpret basic VFD faults. This position is not intended to include PLC, VFD, servo, or instrumentation installation or programming.
  • Must be capable of communicating complex and technical operational and procedural data in terms understood by non-technical operators both verbally and in written form.
  • Must occasionally work outdoors, exposed to environmental conditions, intense noise, chemicals, and fumes.
  • Job tasks will occasionally require extensive physical effort in awkward positions.

Benefits of the role: At McCain, we believe in rewarding our team members with competitive benefits and growth opportunities. Enjoy a quarterly bonus, a 401(k) with a 6% company match, and PTO starting on day one. We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with many other benefits to support you and your family. Plus, take advantage of our Pay for Skills program, backed by tuition reimbursement and a culture that supports career advancement. Join us and grow your future with McCain!

Leadership Principles: Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.

We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.

We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.

We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.

We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here.

Job Family: Agriculture

Location(s): US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Wisconsin Rapids

Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
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