Facilities Maintenance Specialist

SUMMARY

Maintains, inspects, and operates utility systems including but not limited to compressed air, process water, product water, and electrical distribution. Responsible for maintaining a clean and safe work environment in all areas of the building related to utility rooms, pump rooms, electrical areas and water areas.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintains compressed air systems and equipment including preventative maintenance tasks, preventive maintenance schedules, and operational data.
• Conserves electrical distribution and equipment including preventative maintenance tasks, preventive maintenance schedules, and operational data.
• Supports process water and equipment including preventative maintenance tasks, preventive maintenance schedules, and operational data.
• Maintains product water and equipment including preventative maintenance tasks, preventative maintenance schedules and operational data.
• Examines filtration systems and perform filters changes as needed per equipment requirements.
• Performs CIP’s (Critical Infrastructure Protection) on storage silos, filtering equipment and supply lines.
• Ensures water supply to production lines by maintaining pumps and piping.
• Supports pumps and piping to ensure water supply to support equipment.
• Maintains and calibrates Ozone production and monitoring equipment. (Plant Specific)
• Maintains and calibrates mineral injection systems.
• Operates and conserves process water, chemical injection systems, and chemical transfer equipment.
• Assists with filler sanitizations.
• Maintains and operates reverse osmosis equipment to include CIP’s (Critical Infrastructure Protection) on membranes, monitoring instruments, and review of operational data and reports.
• Maintains air compressors and air dryers.
• Ensures cooling towers, chillers, heat exchangers, and pumps are working properly.

Food Safety

Responsible and required to notify management about actual or potential food safety issues; and empowered to act to resolve food safety issues within their scope of work. If this position is vacant for any significant period of time the obligation for completion of all food safety and quality related tasks will become the responsibility of the direct manager or a qualified designee.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education:

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); and 3 years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience with production processes, machines and/or tools. Mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and electrical experience preferred.

Skills/Knowledge:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as blueprints, work orders, work instructions, diagrams, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Possesses all basic and some advanced skills and knowledge. Has a thorough understanding of the total process flow.

Computer Skills:

Must have basic knowledge of a variety of computer software applications, in word processing, spreadsheets, and databases.

Physical Demands:

The Physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit and use hands to finger, handle and feel objects, tools, and controls. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, bend, and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.