Maintenance Technician at Sugar Foods LLC

Maintenance  1st shift 

About the Company
  

Sugar Foods LLC is a privately owned company with production facilities in Georgia, Massachusetts, California, and Mexico. Our products are sold and distributed throughout the U.S. and Canada. Sugar Foods manufactures and packages croutons, tortilla chips, crispy toppings, as well as cheese-based toppings. Additionally, Sugar Foods packages a variety of items including sugar, sweeteners, powdered creamer, and dried fruits and nuts. 

  The Sugar Foods Way
  

At Sugar Foods, the Customer is King, and our team is our Family.  The vision of Sugar Foods is for our products to be on every plate and in every cup.  We continue to grow our business and adapt to changing business conditions to consistently provide value to our customers, our associates, and our community, by adhering to high standards of quality and safety and always acting in a respectful and responsible manner.

• Practice safe work behaviors in accordance with company policies and OSHA regulations.  Stop others performing “at risk” behaviors.
• Utilize Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s),
• Perform both pro-action and reactive maintenance on production and process equipment as needed to support the internal customer.
• Perform Preventative Maintenance (PM) on equipment and processes.
• Use personal knowledge and experience to quickly and safely repair equipment and processes.
• Maintain a clean work area in and around all repair locations.  Ensure the shop and surrounding areas are kept clean by the removal of all debris in work areas, work benches, breakrooms, and all production and warehousing areas.  Clean up any and all spills.
• Direct, monitor, and/or assist the activities of contractors working in your assigned area as needed by Engineering.
• Assist operations with weekly line startups and any scheduled or unscheduled changeovers as needed by your internal customer.
• Effective communication with the operator(s), production supervisors, and maintenance management regarding repairs being made to down equipment and/or processes.
• Perform all tasks assigned by management.

• Use a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to initiate, review and sign-off work orders in the system.  This includes the documentation of your time and materials used.
• Provide own tooling to effectively and efficiently perform all troubleshooting and repair of equipment and processes.

Basic Skills:

• Read and write in English.
• Effective communication skills,
• Sugar Foods defines a good mechanic as possessing the following characteristics: analytical, attentive, thorough, organized, energetic, prompt, self-starter, requires little if any direct supervision, and displays a “sense of urgency” responding to customer calls.
• Able to safely lift up to 40-lbs.
• Able to work on the production floor 95-percent of your time at work.
• Able to perform repetitive hand, wrist, body twist and bend, grasping and pinching, and kneeling, squatting, and climbing tasks.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Able to use technical manuals and schematics to troubleshoot equipment and processes.
• Experience with the operation of simple shop equipment (band saws, vertical and horizontal saws, drill press, mills, lathes, grinders, etcetera).
• Experience with troubleshooting and repairing basic electrical systems and components (starters, switches, potentiometers, fuses, relays, etcetera).
• Experience with troubleshooting and repairing electrical systems (inverters, motors, etcetera).
• Experience with troubleshooting and repair electronics (level probes, flow meters, RTD’s, etcetera).
• Experience with troubleshooting and repairing mechanical systems (gears, sprockets, bearings, bushings, seals, chain and belt drives, gearboxes, etcetera).
• Experience with troubleshooting and repairing hydraulic and/or pneumatic systems (cylinders, valves, manifolds, pumps, etcetera).
• Experience with Vertical and/or Horizontal Form Fill and Seal Baggers (Roberts, Bartelt, Hayysen, Woodman, and Ishida) preferred.
• Experience with high-speed Ropak machines preferred.
• Experience with high-speed Sanko machines preferred.
• Experience with case erectors preferred.
• Experience with case packers preferred.
• Experience with case tapers preferred.
• Experience with large, natural gas fired ovens preferred.
• Experience with large industrial microwave equipment preferred.
• Experience with troubleshooting and repairing cooling systems (compressors, condensers, evaporators, etcetera) preferred.
• Experience with troubleshooting, and programming PLC’s preferred.
• Experience with troubleshooting and repairing servo devices (encoders, motors, etcetera) preferred.
• Experience MIG and/or TIG welding preferred.
• Experience with repairing fork lift equipment. 

Education and Other Requirements:

• 18-years or older.
• Authorized to work in the USA.
• High School graduate/GED
• Technical degree and/or schooling preferred.
• 2-5 years’ experience working in a manufacturing environment

U.S. Employment: If you have any difficulty using our on-line system, you may use the alternative method described below to contact someone about your interest in employment at Sugar Foods Corporation. Please reference this statement and job reference you are applying for when contacting us. Tel: 678-952-7051. 

Sugar Foods Corporation is an E-Verify Company and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job applicant procedures. "Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Veteran/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation"