Food-Plant Maintenance Technician — Day Shift

De Silva Brothers & Company and G.P. De Silva Spices Inc.; Pico Rivera (CA); On-site; USD 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical / dental / vision

Paid time off

401(k) match

Job summary

De Silva Brothers & Company and G.P. De Silva Spices Inc. seeks a Maintenance Technician in Pico Rivera, CA, on-site, with a day shift Monday–Friday. The role keeps packaging lines and blending equipment running, and you’ll own a preventive maintenance program to reduce downtime.

You’ll work in a food production facility with GMP/sanitary standards, perform PMs, line changeovers, and repairs, and support audits. Experience in food manufacturing is preferred.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of maintenance experience in food, beverage, pharmaceutical, or similar manufacturing.
• Strong mechanical troubleshooting across motors, gearboxes, drives, bearings, chains, belts, pneumatics, and conveyors.
• Ability to read equipment manuals, schematics, and parts diagrams.
• Basic electrical troubleshooting—motors, starters, sensors, and photo eyes.
• Comfort using hand and power tools; owns a basic set of hand tools.
• Understanding of GMP and sanitary design principles in a food environment.
• Reliable attendance and the ability to work independently when the plant runs.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot, repair, and adjust packaging equipment — fillers, form-fill-seal, cappers, labelers, case packers, sealers, and conveyors.
• Maintain blending and processing equipment including ribbon blenders, mixers, sifters, grinders, and dust collection systems.
• Perform changeovers and line setups between products, jar and pouch sizes, and run formats.
• Execute scheduled preventive maintenance and keep PM records, work orders, and equipment history logs.
• Support metal detector and checkweigher function checks, calibrations, and documentation.
• Handle general facility upkeep — compressed air lines, plumbing, doors and docks, lighting, and minor building repairs.
• Maintain the spare parts inventory and flag reorder needs before parts run out.
• Follow lockout/tagout, confined space, and all plant safety procedures without exception.
• Work clean: use food-grade lubricants, practice tool accountability, control foreign material risk, and return equipment sanitation-ready after every job.
• Support SQF and customer audits by keeping maintenance documentation current and audit-ready.
• Escalate recurring failures with root-cause observations rather than repeat quick fixes.

Skills

Maintenance experience

Mechanical troubleshooting

Read schematics/diagrams

Basic electrical troubleshooting

Hand/power tools

GMP/sanitary design understanding

Independent work

Job description

De Silva Brothers & Company and G.P. De Silva Spices Inc. seeks a Maintenance Technician in Pico Rivera, CA, on-site, with a day shift Monday–Friday. The role keeps packaging lines and blending equipment running, and you’ll own a preventive maintenance program to reduce downtime.

You’ll work in a food production facility with GMP/sanitary standards, perform PMs, line changeovers, and repairs, and support audits. Experience in food manufacturing is preferred.