Night-Shift Food Plant Maintenance Tech – Welding & Overtime

Tina's Burritos; Vernon (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Overtime opportunities

Skill growth opportunities

Job summary

Tina's Burritos is seeking a Maintenance Technician for our Vernon, CA facility. This hands-on role focuses on troubleshooting, repairing, and preventive maintenance of high-volume production and packaging equipment within a USDA-regulated environment.

You will work with conveyors, ovens, fillers, and automated packaging equipment, performing MIG/TIG welding, reading basic drawings, and ensuring uptime with quick responses to line stoppages. Weekend/off-shift support offered.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Maintenance Technician / Industrial Mechanic in food or manufacturing.
• Strong welding and fabrication skills (MIG/TIG preferred).
• Proven experience troubleshooting packaging equipment and conveyor systems.
• Experience working on ovens, fillers, or cooking equipment.
• Strong mechanical skills (bearings, chains, sprockets, gearboxes, drives).
• Ability to read basic schematics, manuals, and drawings.
• Ability to work in cold (freezer) and hot (oven) environments.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and repair packaging equipment, including horizontal form-and-seal machines, fillers and portioning equipment, conveyors, transfer systems, and accumulation tables.
• Perform repairs on ovens, kettles, and heating systems used in burrito production.
• Diagnose mechanical, pneumatic, and basic electrical issues impacting production uptime and respond quickly to line stoppages and breakdowns.
• Perform MIG/TIG welding and basic fabrication to repair conveyor frames, guards, brackets, chutes, and structural components; modify parts to improve reliability and safety.
• Maintain and repair belt, overhead, and chain/roller conveyors; adjust tracking, tension, bearings, sprockets, and drive components.
• Perform scheduled preventive maintenance on packaging lines, ovens, fillers, conveyors and motors, pneumatics; document work in the CMMS; identify worn components.
• Follow USDA, GMP and food safety requirements; maintain sanitation, tool control and LOTO; collaborate with QA and Sanitation.
• Work with production operators and supervisors; provide clear communications on issues and recommendations; support weekend/off-shift PMs and repairs.

Job description

Tina's Burritos is seeking a Maintenance Technician for our Vernon, CA facility. This hands-on role focuses on troubleshooting, repairing, and preventive maintenance of high-volume production and packaging equipment within a USDA-regulated environment.

You will work with conveyors, ovens, fillers, and automated packaging equipment, performing MIG/TIG welding, reading basic drawings, and ensuring uptime with quick responses to line stoppages. Weekend/off-shift support offered.