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Position OverviewWe are seeking a Maintenance Mechanic to support operations across aseptic packaging and processing systems. This role is responsible for executing work orders, troubleshooting equipment, and performing maintenance to ensure safe, efficient, and compliant production. What You’ll DoPerform mechanical and electromechanical maintenance and troubleshootingRespond to equipment issues, diagnose root causes, and implement timely solutionsConduct preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on production equipmentEnsure all repairs are tested, validated, and production-readyAccurately document work in CMMS and maintenance logsSupport maintenance planning, including parts, tools, and schedulingLead resolution of recurring or complex equipment issuesAssist with continuous improvement initiatives and special projects
Overview: At Gehl Food & Beverage, we pride ourselves on our relationships, whether the long-standing ones we have established with several of America’s top selling consumer brands or with emerging companies new to the marketplace. Through these relationships, our products appear in retail stores, club channels, restaurants, and professional sport venues globally. In fact, you have likely enjoyed a product from Gehl Food & Beverage, perhaps our Gehl's® nacho cheese sauce, without even realizing it. Since the early 1970’s, Gehl Food and Beverage has been a pioneer of low-acid aseptic dairy processing, developing an advanced aseptic process that locks in freshness without the need for refrigeration. This allows us to produce our aseptic products as ready-to-serve, convenient packages that fit the needs of consumers. Our highly specialized aseptic process allows food and beverage products to achieve a condition known as commercial sterility allowing a 12–18-month ambient shelf life without compromising taste or quality. Through a process of combining commercially sterile ingredients with sterilized packaging materials and sealing them within a commercially sterile environment, we create on-trend products that do not spoil at ambient temperatures. As a smaller organization, participants will have exposure to many facets of low-acid aseptic dairy processing within the company but will be focused primarily in the maintenance and engineering department. Here, service members will learn the basics of maintaining and repairing food manufacturing equipment, such as effective completion of periodic PMs, periodic rebuilding of critical equipment, troubleshooting of mechanical and electrical systems, project management, and equipment upgrades, while following good manufacturing processes (GMP), food safety guidelines, and quality assurance standards with the opportunity to transition into full-time employment at the end of the program.Week 1 – Orientation and Introduction to Aseptic Food Manufacturing (40-hour work week)• Safety and Food Safety – Learning good manufacturing processes, human safety, lock out tag out, forklift safety. Explain business rules, define expectations, and company culture. Meet employees and match intern with a mentor. Tour through manufacturing site, explaining aseptic processes.Training Objective 1: Intern fully understands his/her role in the company, is familiar with what his/her role & responsibilities will be and the associated expectations and gains a basic understanding of aseptic food processes.Week 2 - 5 – Aseptic Manufacturing Education *During this phase of training the service member will be shadowing and working with machine operators to gain an understanding of the production processes, equipment and standards as well as how their role as a maintenance technician impacts the operations team.• Safety, proper handling of Chemicals, Acid, Peroxide, Caustic• Machine overview, training, Inpaco, Tetra, Stork, etc...• Clean out of Place, CIP cleaning and sanitation• Read and understand material pallet tags and materials tracking sheets• Starting and Stopping production processes daily care and packaging checks• Assisting with and/or completing operator PMs and daily machine care tasks • Weekly meeting with local leadership to review and answer any questions, debrief on progress and skills learned that weekTraining Objective 2: Intern has learned general manufacturing and will specialize in machine specific training allowing them to feel basic level of confidence in practices and can showcase skills without professional technician assistanceWeek 6 - 9– Introduction to Maintenance Workflow Processes & Plant Utilities – CMMS (Work Order) introduction, Stockroom processes, job kitting and planned work. Specific equipment experience on plant utility equipment (Boilers, Chiller, Cooling Towers, Ammonia systems, HVAC & air compressors & wastewater handling) • Stockroom: Working in tandem with experienced technicians the intern will focus on learning key aspects of the maintenance workflow process: How to open, complete and accurately close work orders. Stockroom fundamentals, including parts check-out, parts requisition process, how to build job kits and the role of planned work in equipment reliability.• Utilities: Working with experienced technicians the service member will begin completing equipment monitoring tasks, completing daily, weekly and monthly PMs and minor repair work on plant utility systems. This training will encompass work across systems and will provide the service member with a deeper understanding of how the utilities equipment impact the production processes. Training Objective 3: Develop an understanding of how the maintenance workflow is managed across the facility and how the site ensures the correct parts are on hand to ensure the reliability of plant equipment. Additionally, develop an understanding of what is required to maintain reliable utilities for production processes and ensuring the utility equipment is maintained to the standards required for food manufacturing in an aseptic environment.Assessments: Evaluation of service members’ performance.Week 10-18 – Maintenance in Aseptic Food Manufacturing – Broad exposure to the role of a maintenance technician across the facility. This will encompass supporting and shadowing current maintenance technicians in performing line calls during production, completion of PMs, rebuilds and repairs to production equipment, working with FSE technicians on planned major and minor services to equipment and working with FSE and Engineering team on equipment upgrades. • During this phase of the program, the service member will begin working on the production equipment. They will be exposed to equipment in the processing, filling, and packaging sections of the plant. Aside of gaining and understanding of process in each section, the service member will be heavily engaged in the mechanical and electrical functionality of specific parts of equipment and asked to assist in maintaining, rebuilding and repairing the equipment while complying with the maintenance workflow processes. • This will be the completion of the program. During this time, the service member will be working directly in the role of a maintenance technician supporting trained, professional service technicians as they complete the full scope of maintenance work across the sites’ production equipment. We expect the service member to demonstrate a retention of the knowledge they have gained in the prior weeks, as well as to demonstrate continued growth in their understanding of production processes and fundamental maintenance skills necessary to repair, maintain and troubleshoot equipment. After completion of this 18-week course, the service member will have a basic knowledge of the skills he/she needs to succeed as a maintenance technician.Training Objective 4: Candid evaluations of the intern’s performance and skill level will be held regarding the candidate’s skill development, process understanding and any areas of improvement necessary.Successful completion of this phase is likely to lead to a job offer as a maintenance technician. The ability to learn and demonstrate growth in understanding and skill development will be crucial for successful completion of this phase of the program. Training Outcomes: Participants will have gained fundamental skills in maintenance processes and skills, an understanding of aseptic food and beverage manufacturing, exposure to operating production equipment, and maintenance plant utility equipment. The intent of the internship will be to provide participants with a full-time offer of employment upon completion of the Skillbridge program.
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Excellent opportunity to transition into a full-time mechanic at a growing organization.
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