Maintenance Mechanic B

Kerry Group • Melrose Park, IL

23h • $33

About The Position

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.
About the role
ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Shift/Working Hours 10PM - 6AM - Overtime when needed
Demonstrates leadership in the area of safety. This requires observing and enforcing safety rules and practices, encouraging safe work behaviors, and promptly correcting conditions and unsafe behavior, which may lead to accidents.
Continually endorse the Quality & Food Safety Policies, assure conformance to all requirements of the Quality & Food Safety Management Systems, & take action to properly report failures of these systems to site management.
GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Responsible for supporting the Maintenance Supervisor in the coordination and/or execution of activities within the Maintenance group to ensure a productive workforce that supports the facility in a safe, reliable, and efficient manner.
Repairs plant equipment, installs new equipment, and performs building maintenance as directed by the Maintenance Supervisor. Above all the necessities mentioned below, the team lead needs to be able to

Requirements

• Stay focused on getting the day’s work done, and lead his team members to stay focused,
• Maintain a positive attitude amidst unplanned events of the day and be a part of the solution, not the problem
• Willing to learn new skills that would benefit the plant and willing to teach the skills to the fellow team members

Responsibilities

• In the absence of the Maintenance group lead, ensure critical activities of the group lead to keep the maintenance department working properly.
• Assists the group lead in reviewing the current day’s schedule status of manpower availability daily and facilitates the execution to plan.
• Must be able to lead and help train fellow team members within the department.
• Assists the Planner/Scheduler and Maintenance Engineer by recommending equipment and/or procedures to be included in preventative maintenance programs
• Recommends and helps find permanent solutions to the issues that maintenance department faces in its day-to-day functioning
• Keeps the maintenance staff properly informed on all abnormal or critical situations and seeks advice on matters outside of their knowledge or authority
• Works with various hand tools, power tools, welders and cutting equipment to repair and maintain plant machinery and equipment such as mixers, conveyors, compressors, and pumps
• Repairs or replaces control devises such as switches, photo eyes, proximity sensors, pushbuttons, contactors, motor starters, etc. as needed
• Performs work order repairs, inspections and adjustments
• Ensures fellow employees, contractors and visitors are following all applicable quality and food safety procedures and policies
• Able to set up and operate welders, drill press, grinder, hand tools and other metal working equipment
• Fabricates and modifies new and existing equipment.
• Ability to troubleshoot to the I/O of controls.
• Ability to connect to PLC and access program so that 3rd party may inspect/troubleshoot program.
• Troubleshoots and repair electrical equipment; work with low voltage DC and 120, 240 and 480 volt AC power based on electrician guidelines.
• Operate forklift and aerial lifts.
• Help as required in the parts storeroom.

Benefits

• Kerry offers a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, Employee Share Plan, Life, disability, and accident insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed