Hatchery Maintenance Mechanic

Hatchery Maintenance Mechanic

Location: Sauk Rapids, MN, United States

Date Posted: Jul 16, 2026

Category: Hourly Maintenance

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Description

Hatchery Maintenance Mechanic lll- Nights

At Pilgrim's, Safety Is A Condition, which means the safety of our team members comes first - always.

The Maintenance Mechanic lll is responsible for all maintenance to buildings and equipment at the Hatchery facility.

Responsibilities:

• Performs maintenance on incubation equipment, buildings, and grounds at the Hatchery in the office areas.
• Performs preventative maintenance on all systems at the facility including incubation, heating/air conditioning, alarms, etc. Checks daily for proper operation of systems, machines and equipment.
• Monitors and maintains spare parts inventory for incubators and equipment, ensuring that appropriate parts are available as needed.
• Monitors machine operation/performance on a daily basis.
• Documents all maintenance issues/concerns at the hatchery and communicates to the leadership team at the Hatchery.
• Observe & enforce all company personnel, quality, safety, and food safety policies.
• Maintains a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating in a manner so that you work effectively and cooperatively with customers, clients, coworkers, and leadership teams.
• Recognizes and acts on incidents and safety risks. Consistently practices, and enforces safe work habits and drives those habits throughout the organization.
• All other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

• Considerable knowledge of maintenance and repair of hatchery equipment, heating and air conditioning units, and buildings.
• Boiler's License preferred or willingness to obtain.
• Considerable ability to analyze and resolve complicated maintenance problems.
• Working skill in supervising, instructing and coordinating the maintenance function
• Good verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work with limited supervision and provide feedback to leadership.
• Considerable ability to operate power tools and machinery.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to work at elevated heights.
• Valid Class D License
• Ability to pass Fit test.

Why Work for Pilgrim's?

• Schedule: Sunday - Thursday 9:00pm-5:30am
• Benefits: Vision, Medical, and Dental coverage begin after 60 days of employment.
• Paid Time Off: Sick leave, vacation, company observed holidays
• 401(k): Company match begins after the first year of service and follows the company-vesting schedule.
• Base hourly salary: Starting at $30.22 per hour
• Career Development: Our company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through various learning and development programs; and
• Better Futures

The Company is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our team members and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct drug, alcohol, and background checks for all new team members post-offer and prior to the start of employment. The Immigration Reform and Control Act requires that verification of employment eligibility be documented for all new employees by the end of the third day of work.

About us: Pilgrim's is a leading global food company with more than 62,000 team members worldwide. The company processes, prepares, packages, and delivers fresh, frozen, and value-added food products for customers in more than 100 countries. Pilgrim's operates protein processing plants and prepared foods facilities in 14 states, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the U.K, the Republic of Ireland and continental Europe.

Our mission: To be the best in all that we do, completely focused on our business, ensuring the best products and services to our customers, a relationship of trust with our suppliers, profitability for our shareholders and the opportunity of a better future for all our team members.

Our core values are: Availability, Determination, Discipline, Humility, Ownership, Simplicity, Sincerity

EOE, including disability/vets

Unsolicited Assistance: JBS and its companies do not accept unsolicited assistance from any recruitment vendors for any of our open jobs. All resumes or candidate profiles submitted by recruitment vendors or headhunters to any employee at JBS and its companies or via the applicant tracking system, in any form without a valid written request and search agreement previously approved by HR, will be solely owned by JBS and its companies. No fees will be paid should the candidate be hired by JBS and its companies because of an unsolicited referral.

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