Dairy Plant Maintenance Technician

Associated Milk Producers Inc.; Portage (WI); On-site; USD 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Associated Milk Producers Inc. is seeking a Maintenance Specialist to provide maintenance support across its Midwest plants, ensuring safety, product integrity and production efficiency.

You will perform preventive maintenance, operate boilers and ammonia refrigeration systems, weld metals, assist in root cause analysis and train operators. This role emphasizes hands-on problem solving and teamwork in a dairy environment with EH&S standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide Maintenance Support effectively and efficiently. Timely respond to maintenance related issues, quickly resolve problems, and make necessary adjustments as needed to maintain employee safety, product integrity and production efficiencies.
• Ensure safe operations through adherence to Environmental, Health, and Safety programs and procedures. Follow all lockout tagout, fall protection and confined space requirements. Strict adherence to housekeeping by maintaining clean work areas and tool accountability.
• Ensure operation of plant equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements on motors, pneumatic tools, conveyor systems, and production machines. Follow diagrams, sketches, operations manuals, manufacturer's instructions, and engineering specifications.
• Responsible for startup, operations, shutdown and maintenance to ensure safe and efficient operations of plant equipment. Perform duties related to boiler operation, maintenance, recordkeeping and ensuring that the boilers are running safely, efficiently and properly.
• Maintain ammonia refrigeration system. Locate and isolate sources of problems by observing mechanical devices in operation, listening for issues and using precision measuring and testing instruments. Remove and fix defective parts and equipment to keep production running efficiently with minimal interruption.
• Assist in root cause analysis to prevent the issue from happening again.
• Adjust functional parts of devices and control instruments using hand tools, levels, plumb bobs and straightedges. Determine changes in dimensional requirements of parts by inspecting used parts; using rules, calipers, micrometers and other measuring instruments.
• Perform MIG, TIG and stick welding for various types of metals including food grade stainless steel, steel and aluminum.
• Conserve maintenance resources by using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
• Anticipate needed equipment, parts and supplies. Demonstrate a cooperative effort to train and assist operators and peers in all aspects of equipment maintenance and operation, problem solving.

Job description

Associated Milk Producers Inc. is seeking a Maintenance Specialist to provide maintenance support across its Midwest plants, ensuring safety, product integrity and production efficiency.

You will perform preventive maintenance, operate boilers and ammonia refrigeration systems, weld metals, assist in root cause analysis and train operators. This role emphasizes hands-on problem solving and teamwork in a dairy environment with EH&S standards.