Maintenance Front End/Kitchen Equipment Technician

Cushman & Wakefield•Dallas, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Kitchen equipment technicians are responsible for maintaining, modifying, troubleshooting, and repairing a large inventory of electric and gas commercial kitchen equipment and appliances. The role involves fielding, prioritizing, and carrying out service support requests through in-person inspections and an online work order system. Technicians frequently interact with dining staff, providing advice on equipment operation or status. They also assist in major repairs and upgrades and participate in large-scale maintenance duties as part of the dining team. Responsibilities include documenting procedures, processes, and best practices, performing preventative and scheduled predictive maintenance checks, and providing on-site support during special events, off-hours, holidays, and weekends. The technician must swiftly correct unsafe conditions and report non-correctable ones to a supervisor. This role also involves installing new equipment, repairing leaks, maintaining wiring controls, and replacing defective parts. Maintaining inventory and ensuring proper tool and equipment maintenance are also key duties.

Requirements

Profound knowledge of how various types of kitchen and refrigeration equipment work.
Outstanding soldering and blazing skills, applying oxygen/propane.
Strong ability to read and comprehend wiring diagrams, and to follow manuals on operation and installation to successful complete tasks.
Strong ability to apply various types of equipment safely and efficiently, and to maintain and service them.
Exceptional ability to work independently without direct supervision and take responsibility for the repair of assigned equipment.
Strong ability to prioritize assigned tasks for increased job delivery.
Exceptional ability to properly investigate problems with food equipment, discover the issue, and correct it.
Ability to work in a team setting with other maintenance workers, and with staff and members of the public.
Strong ability to quickly understand and carry out both written and oral instructions effectively.
Strong keyboarding and basic computer skills.
Possess refrigerant transition and recovery certification.
Repair and maintenance experience in the commercial kitchen or dinning service field.
Strong knowledge of plumbing repair and installation practice and procedure.
Strong knowledge of basic electrical practice, theory, and safety.
Strong knowledge of the fundamental of commercial refrigeration practice and theory.

Responsibilities

Maintaining, modifying, troubleshooting, and repairing a large inventory of electric and gas commercial kitchen equipment and appliances.
Fielding, prioritizing, and carrying out service support requests by in-person inspections and from an online work order system.
Performing end-user interactions frequently with dinning-staff requiring advice on equipment operation or status.
Assisting in major repairs and upgrades.
Participating in large-scale maintenance duties as part of the dinning team.
Carrying out the documentation of procedures, processes, and best practices in on-plan sets and end-user manuals, or modifying what has previously been documented.
Performing preventative maintenance as well as scheduled predictive maintenance checks following manufacturers’ recommendation or/and as assigned.
Providing on-site support during special events as well as during off hours, holidays, and weekends.
Swiftly correcting unsafe conditions in workplaces and bringing to the supervisor’s attention any non-correctable condition noticed.
Installing new equipment.
Repairing leaks.
Maintaining settings on wiring controls.
Replacing defective or old parts.
Maintaining inventory.
Ensuring that tools and equipment are properly maintained.
Perform repairs and maintenance duties on a wide variety of kitchen and refrigeration equipment such as walk-in freezers, industrial-sized steam cookers, refrigerators, ice machines, washers, ovens, dryers, dishwashers, and water coolers.
Carry out periodic inspection, cleaning, and equipment servicing.
Log into the work order management system to find, accept, and complete the work requests.
Carry out installation of new equipment; perform repairs on leaks; ensure settings o wiring controls; change equipment parts that have become old or defective.
Collaborate with other maintenance workers, company’s officials, and staff to effectively provide solutions to maintenance problems.
Attend quickly to emergency call on equipment repair issues, as well as to after work hour calls.
Perform other duties the supervisor may assign.
Performs additional job duties as requested.