Maintenance Mechanic - Belvidere, IL

As a part of our manufacturing group, you will be responsible for preventative and reactive maintenance of processing and packaging equipment and providing technical support to improve and optimize within the manufacturing operations and processes.

Schedule & Shift

• 12-hour shifts
  • Night shift: 5:45 p.m. – 6:00 a.m. (currently hiring for nights)
• Eligibility to bid on available shift schedule changes after 6 months
• Rotating schedule: 5 on / 3 off / 2 on / 5 off / 4 on / 2 off / 3 on / 4 off
• Alternating workweeks:
• • 48-hour weeks
  • 36-hour weeks
  • Average of 42 hours per week
• Willingness to work overtime and any shift as needed, including nights, weekends, holidays, and emergency events
• Plant operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Schedule Perks
• Regular 2–5 day breaks built into the rotation
• Predictable schedule that supports work-life balance, rest, and personal commitments
• Overtime opportunities available

Pay:

• $29.77 per hour
• $2.00 per hour night shift differential
• Internal advancement opportunities

Job Duties:

• Creating high quality foods that are eaten EVERYDAY, NATIONWIDE
• Using TECHNOLOGY in an industry-leading facility
• Working with HIGH-LEVEL operators on EXPERIENCED teams that are looking to pass down their knowledge to workers WILLING TO LEARN and get paid doing it
• CHALLENGING yourself to get the JOB DONE RIGHT and gain skills to take with you to your next opportunity
  • Installing, maintaining, repairing, and replacing industrial processing and packaging machinery, work tools and equipment
  • Identifying and troubleshooting mechanical issues
  • Providing technical support and plant leadership for equipment troubleshooting and equipment modifications
  • Understanding, initiating, and participating in Root Cause Analysis (Why, Why)
  • Performing both uptime and downtime preventative maintenance
  • Participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives to increase platform performance
  • Assist in training new employees

Physical requirements:

• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs
• Must be able to perform physical tasks for extended periods of time including standing, walking, climbing, bending, pushing, pulling and twisting over surfaces
• Ability to climb and/or work at heights while utilizing stairs, ladders, personnel lifts, or platforms
• Ability to wear protective clothing and equipment such as safety shoes, face masks, safety glasses, hearing protection, a hard hat, a hair/beard net and gloves when required
• Willing and able to adhere to all grooming requirements necessary for a food manufacturing environment
• Ability to work in hot, cold, noisy, dusty, wet environmental working conditions
• Willing to work around industrial high-speed moving machinery
• Ability to work with allergens that might be present in a food environment

Benefits:

• 10 days (120 hours) of vacation annually and 11 paid company holidays
• Great paid time off benefits
• 401(k) match
• Health Insurance includes medical, dental, vision and life
• And much more!