Regional Maintenance Technician

NewCold; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative environment

Professional growth

Real impact and innovation

Well-being and benefits

Job summary

NewCold in Atlanta seeks a Regional Maintenance Technician to drive asset performance and maintenance planning across sites. You will support new facilities and provide hands-on site maintenance to ensure reliability and safety.

The ideal candidate has 4–7 years in industrial maintenance, strong conveyor and crane knowledge, and a proven ability to lead, train, and improve maintenance processes.

Qualifications

• 4 to 7 years of experience as a Maintenance Technician in industrial/manufacturing environments.
• Strong knowledge of conveyor systems and automated material handling equipment, including troubleshooting and preventive maintenance.
• Solid crane systems expertise, including inspection, maintenance, and repair.
• Experience with TGW, MIAS, Danbach, or similar automation systems.
• Proven experience leading, mentoring, and training maintenance technicians.
• Ability to coordinate maintenance activities, prioritize work, and support equipment reliability.
• Commitment to safety, preventive maintenance, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Drive improved technical capability, asset performance, repair and maintenance planning.
• Support new facilities to begin operations and provide hands-on site maintenance.
• Align site maintenance with operational strategy and KPI reporting.
• Train and coach technicians; implement and assess maintenance processes.
• Collaborate with regional teams to share best practices and drive reliability improvements.
• Work with QESH to ensure safety procedures and policies are followed.
• Analyze failures, perform cost-based decisions, and pursue improvement opportunities.
• Travel 50–70% as required.

Skills

Conveyor systems knowledge

Automated material handling

Troubleshooting

Preventive maintenance

Crane systems expertise

Leadership & mentoring

Safety & continuous improvement

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

TGW

MIAS

Danbach

Job description

About NewCold

NewCold is a global leader in advanced food logistics. Our warehouses and transport network sit at the center of the food supply chain. Connecting the world's major food manufacturers with retailers and food service providers.

Our goal is to keep the world's food fresh and safe with our proprietary technologies and innovative solutions.

NewCold designs, builds, and operates state-of-the-art cold storage facilities that are highly automated. We push the boundaries of logistics with end-to-end storage and transport operations that add greater resilience, efficiency, and sustainability to supply chains on four continents. And we are growing rapidly.

To support our rapid growth, we're constantly looking for talented people to join our team. Want to be a part of a dynamic, forward-thinking environment? Join us!

Your role as a Regional Maintenance Technician

Key responsibilities

Position Overview

We are searching for a Regional Maintenance Technician to actively drive improved technical capability, asset performance, repair and maintenance planning, training and execution to support safe and efficient Operations. This role will serve as a bridge to ensure new NewCold facilities have the appropriate support to begin Operations as well as providing hands on existing Site support to ensure maintenance requirements are being met and continuous improvement efforts are ongoing.

• Demonstrates commitment to regional success by engaging new and existing Site Maintenance teams to align support for Operation and Maintenance Excellence according to strategy.
• Partners with Site Leadership to ensure Site Maintenance is developed and maintained according to ongoing Repairs and PM schedules, creates stop gap process to correct any deficiencies and ensures adherence to all standard work processes. Provides feedback and supporting documentation to update Site Managers on KPI's.
• Participates in the implementation of shared maintenance best practices/lessons learned related to equipment and technical ownership, maintenance standards, and technical training of technicians as needed.
• Works effectively with Regional Teams to develop the capability of technical teams through training, coaching, implementing and assessing the Maintenance Process to deliver world class Maintenance Excellence standards in Maintenance and Material Handling Equipment.
• Partners with QESH leadership to ensure NewCold procedures, policies, and safety rules are in place and being adhered to.
• Demonstrates the Technical/Engineering expertise to work with the sites to resolve reliability and equipment performance issues through active onsite support and mentoring.
• Makes decisions based on feasibility studies and costing analysis from Ultimo data, identify trends, solve problems, and makes/initiates recommendations for improvements.
• Explore and use Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), PM Optimization & Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) methodology
• Work across sites to analyze and prioritize opportunities.
• Travel will fluctuate, currently 50%-70%.
• Other duties as assigned.

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Who we are looking for:

We are seeking motivated and forward-thinking individuals who thrive in collaborative and fast-moving environments. Our ideal candidate has:

Requirements

• 4 to 7 years of experience as a Maintenance Technician in an industrial, manufacturing, or automated warehouse environment.
• Strong knowledge of conveyor systems and automated material handling equipment, including troubleshooting and preventive maintenance.
• Solid mechanical expertise in crane systems, including inspection, maintenance, and repair.
• Experience with TGW, MIAS, Danbach, or similar automation systems preferred.
• Proven experience leading, mentoring, and training maintenance technicians to support team performance and development.
• Ability to coordinate maintenance activities, prioritize work, and support equipment reliability.
• Commitment to safety, preventive maintenance, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Education/Certification

• High School Diploma or GED required.

What we offer

• A supportive and collaborative environment.
• The opportunity for professional growth in a fast-scaling, international company.
• The chance to have real impact and innovate alongside other bright minds.
• The challenge of transforming the future of cold storage and food logistics.
• A strong commitment to employee well-being.

Whether you're a seasoned expert or just starting your career, NewCold provides the opportunities and challenges that allow you to grow and excel. Ready to turn your curiosity into impact?

NewCold provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), or service in the military. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training.

NewCold expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment or discrimination based on any of the characteristics mentioned above. Improper interference with the ability of other employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.