Night-Shift Reliability Technician – Pet-Food Plant

Mars; Temple (TX); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars is seeking Reliability Maintenance Technicians for a 223-night shift (7pm–7:30am) at a pet food manufacturing site in Texas. You will install, repair, troubleshoot and maintain industrial equipment, ensuring continuous operation and adherence to preventive maintenance plans.

You will lead the PM system for your area, drive downtime improvements, train operators and technicians, and coordinate with contractors and the reliability team to meet site CBM goals.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Technical Certificate or Equivalent Experience.
• Associated Technical Degree preferred.
• 5 years’ experience as a maintenance technician in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience operating within a formalized Continuous Improvement environment (MSE, TPM, Lean Manufacturing).

Responsibilities

• Own PM system for the area, focusing on Maintenance Planning & Scheduling, Breakdown Elimination DMs and serves as the AM support DMS of the PM pillar.
• Drives for results in Planned and Unplanned downtime and owns the area PM Compliance and Breakdown Elimination.
• Build functional & technical skills of the AWTs.
• Is the technical expert of related equipment and discuss, coach, and train technicians and operators on the area equipment.
• Makes business decisions based on quantitative and qualitive data analysis.
• Participates in the development of and own portions of the 90 Day Loss Elimination Plan.
• Research areas of area improvement of area of responsibility.
• Coordinates planned work with service contractors and reliability team.
• Represents area maintenance at the daily FMOS meetings. Provides performance data for selected machines and communicates action plans.

Skills

Leadership & Training

Problem solving

Written & verbal communication

MS Office

SAPPM

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Technical Certificate or Equivalent Experience

Associated Technical Degree preferred

Tools

MS Office

SAPPM

Job description

Mars is seeking Reliability Maintenance Technicians for a 223-night shift (7pm–7:30am) at a pet food manufacturing site in Texas. You will install, repair, troubleshoot and maintain industrial equipment, ensuring continuous operation and adherence to preventive maintenance plans.

You will lead the PM system for your area, drive downtime improvements, train operators and technicians, and coordinate with contractors and the reliability team to meet site CBM goals.