Maintenance Worker

Darling Ingredients; Linville (VA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Darling Ingredients maintains a bakery processing facility, performing preventive and corrective maintenance on a rotating 12-hour night shift with every other weekend. The role requires hands-on welding, electrical, and mechanical skills, plus forklift operation and a strong safety mindset.

Qualified candidates have a high school diploma or GED and experience with welding (MIG/Stick), control circuits, pumps, motors, and gear boxes. Vocational training is preferred.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• Experience operating a forklift.
• Experience in welding, electrical and mechanical work.
• Preferred: vocational training and MIG/Stick welding proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Assist in installation of new equipment and fabrication projects.
• Follow preventive maintenance schedules and perform repairs.
• Repair motors, gear boxes, pumps and piping; replace seals.
• Troubleshoot control circuits and VFD installations.
• Maintain clean, safe work area and follow safety rules.

Skills

Forklift operation

Welding

Electrical

Mechanical aptitude

Math skills

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Welding equipment

VFD installation

Electrical testing tools

Job description

Job Description

The Maintenance Worker performs preventive and corrective maintenance in the plant under management supervision.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Assists in the installation of new equipment.
• Assists the Maintenance Supervisor and/or other personnel on special fabrication and construction projects.
• Follows preventative maintenance schedule.
• If above level 1 maintenance, you will trains Level 1 Maintenance personnel.
• Performs machine repair and installation such as replacing motors, rebuilding gear boxes, run threaded piping, run weld piping, overhaul pumps, replace packing shaft seals on cookers and pumps, welds and uses cutting torch.
• Conducts daily greasing and oiling of plant equipment.
• Diagnosis and replacement of equipment parts with little or no direction.
• Ability to diagnose and repair control circuits and VFD installation.
• Maintains clean, neat, and orderly work area at all times.
• Responsible for using assigned personal protective equipment and required safety equipment; responsible for being familiar with and observing all Company safety rules and regulations.
• Attends regularly scheduled safety meetings and may be asked to serve on Safety Committee.
• All other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• Experience in operating a forklift.
• Experience in welding, electrical, and mechanicals.

Preferred Qualifications

• Vocational school training preferred.
• 2 years experience with similar equipment preferred.
• Basic knowledge of general maintenance and equipment operations.
• Welding proficiency in MIG and Stick as well as vertical and overhead.
• Proficiency in control power electric.
• General mechanical aptitude; able to diagnosis and repair problems with motors and other equipment.
• Good math skills; add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.

Physical Demands

• Frequently required to push, pull, move or lift up to 100 lbs.
• Frequently required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crawl, and crouch.
• Regularly required reach with hands and arms.
• Will need to work rotating 12 hour night shift w/every other weekend scheduled; available "on call" as needed.

Work Environment

Job functions will be carried out in a bakery processing facility which requires tolerance for wet and or slippery floors and high heat or cold temperatures.

About Us

We’re one of the world’s leading practitioners of circularity, transforming materials from the animal agriculture and food industries into valuable ingredients. Ingredients that nourish people, feed animals and crops, and fuel the world with renewable energy.

About The Team

Darling Ingredients is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military service, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state and local law. Know Your Rights: If you would like more information, please click on the link and paste into your browser: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster of this job.