Plant Maintenance Mechanic: Reliability & Uptime

UNAVAILABLE; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Danone USA is seeking a Maintenance Mechanic for our Jacksonville, FL facility. The role focuses on preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance across Packaging, Processing, Extraction, and Warehouse units to maximize uptime and reliability.

You will troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems, support continuous improvement initiatives, and mentor teammates on best practices.

Qualifications

• High School education or GED.
• Associate degree in Electrical or Mechanical field.
• 1+ years of industrial maintenance experience preferred.
• Must pass internal Maintenance qualification test.

Responsibilities

• Adhering to all safety, health, and environmental standards, taking personal responsibility to prevent injury or illness.
• Performing maintenance activities—preventive, reactive, corrective, breakdown, and work orders to improve equipment performance, reliability, and product quality in a timely manner.
• Effectively complete PM’s as scheduled to eliminate unplanned downtime.
• Proficient and diligent in use of CMMS system to track maintenance action items.
• Communicating effectively with maintenance and area owners regarding safety issues, quality concerns, and delays in work completion.
• Ensure all paperwork is filled out in a clear, legible and accurate format and completed with all required information.
• Responding promptly to maintenance calls, coordinating with maintenance and area leadership to prioritize work.
• Perform predictive maintenance techniques on equipment to enhance up-time conditions.
• Completes preventative maintenance and other reliability tasks, assist in diagnostics, repairs and rebuilds of machines; partner with engineering or others on non-routine repairs and defect handling solutions.
• Utilize root cause analysis through to ensure sustainability of corrective actions and/or improvements to drive asset reliability.
• Classify breakdowns and analyze gaps in the entire process of design, fabrication, and maintenance of equipment.
• Utilize the continuous improvement mindset and tools to actively participate in identifying and correcting opportunities, improving processes including participation in the creation and documentation of Standard Operating Procedures and Work Instructions, the creation and maintenance of preventative maintenance standards, the writing of One-Point Lessons, and participation in continuous improvement methodology events.
• Follow QMS, Good Manufacturing Practices and 5S methodology to maintain a clean, sanitary and safe work area, always maintaining audit ready status.
• Supports plant production needs and priorities to achieve plant goals.
• Facilitate, attend and participate in team meetings and programs.
• Assist, train, and coach employees.
• Comply with all regulations, policies and procedures.
• All other duties assigned or become evident.

Skills

Electrical

Mechanical

Pneumatic

Hydraulic

Welding

Problem solving

Reading & writing

Safety awareness

Documentation

Shift flexibility

Basic computer skills

Education

High School

Associates in Electrical/Mechanical or related technical field

Job description

Danone USA is seeking a Maintenance Mechanic for our Jacksonville, FL facility. The role focuses on preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance across Packaging, Processing, Extraction, and Warehouse units to maximize uptime and reliability.

You will troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems, support continuous improvement initiatives, and mentor teammates on best practices.