R&D Maintenance Technician - Food Manufacturing

Riviana Foods Inc. - USA; Saint Charles (MO); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Bertagni USA seeks a Maintenance Tech to join our St. Charles operation, maintaining and improving high-speed pasta production equipment and facility systems. The role focuses on preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, and supporting new product development and line expansion.

Ideal candidates bring strong mechanical and industrial electrical skills, CMMS experience, and a collaborative mindset to uphold food safety, reliability, and continuous improvement across the production line.

Qualifications

• Must have a high school diploma or GED.
• Technical degree, certificate, apprenticeship, or equivalent training in industrial maintenance, mechatronics, electrical technology, or automation.
• Food, beverage, CPG, or high-speed automated manufacturing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Perform preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance on production and facility equipment.
• Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and automated systems; diagnose failures and complete safe repairs.
• Repair and maintain motors, gearboxes, bearings, pumps, conveyors, valves, cylinders, sensors, drives, relays, contactors, and related components.
• Read and interpret electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, manuals, and technical documentation.
• Support dough preparation, sheeting, filling, forming, cooking, cooling, chilling, conveying, and product-transfer systems.
• Support packaging, sealing, labeling, coding, inspection, checkweighing, metal/X-ray detection, case-packing, and palletizing equipment.
• Troubleshoot motors, sensors, VFDs, PLC-controlled equipment, and HMI systems.
• Complete preventive maintenance on schedule; inspect for wear, leaks, vibration, temperature, and alignment concerns.
• Identify repeat failures, participate in root-cause analysis, and recommend improvements to safety, reliability, maintainability, efficiency, and throughput.
• Support OEE, TPM, Lean, 5S, and other continuous-improvement activities.

Skills

Mechanical troubleshooting

Industrial electrical troubleshooting

Schematic reading

CMMS skills

Communication

Teamwork

Lean/TPM/5S

Learning agility

Education

High school diploma or GED

Technical degree/certificate/apprenticeship in industrial maintenance/automation

Tools

CMMS

Industrial diagnostic tools

Allen‑Bradley/Rockwell PLC

Siemens PLC

VFDs

Job description

Bertagni USA seeks a Maintenance Tech to join our St. Charles operation, maintaining and improving high-speed pasta production equipment and facility systems. The role focuses on preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, and supporting new product development and line expansion.

Ideal candidates bring strong mechanical and industrial electrical skills, CMMS experience, and a collaborative mindset to uphold food safety, reliability, and continuous improvement across the production line.