Job Description
Job Title: Maintenance Technician
Location: Addison, IL
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Target Pay Rate: $34.00 - $37.00/hour + overtime + bonus
Work Schedule: 3:00pm - 12:00am (2nd shift), Mon-Fri, rotating weekends
Benefits: Comprehensive employee benefits package available.
Job Summary:
Our client is seeking an experienced Maintenance Technician to join their team at their food manufacturing facility in Addison, IL. This position is responsible for troubleshooting, repairing, maintaining, and improving industrial processing and packaging equipment to ensure safe and efficient production operations. The ideal candidate will have strong electrical troubleshooting skills along with solid mechanical experience. This role will primarily focus on electrical maintenance (approximately 80%) while also requiring mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and fabrication skills. This is an excellent opportunity to join a stable, family-owned organization with over 430 employees and a strong history of employee retention.
“Must Have” Skills:
- 5+ years of industrial maintenance experience
- Strong industrial electrical troubleshooting skills
- PLC troubleshooting experience
- Experience troubleshooting and repairing manufacturing equipment
- Strong mechanical maintenance skills
- Experience with pneumatic and hydraulic systems
- Experience replacing motors, gearboxes, sensors, and related components
- Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics
- Strong safety mindset and ability to follow all safety procedures
Job Duties:
- Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain industrial electrical power systems and controls
- Troubleshoot and repair PLC-controlled production equipment
- Perform electrical troubleshooting on motors, sensors, controls, and related components
- Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain mechanical systems and processing equipment
- Troubleshoot and maintain pneumatic, hydraulic, and vacuum systems
- Perform preventative maintenance programs on production equipment
- Install processing and packaging equipment as required
- Read and interpret basic electrical schematics
- Measure, cut, drill, and fabricate components using hand tools and machine shop equipment
- Perform welding on stainless steel and carbon steel (MIG/TIG experience preferred)
- Maintain food manufacturing GMP standards
- Repair facility equipment and building structures as needed
- Follow OSHA, EPA, Hazmat, USDA, FSIS, and company safety requirements
- Complete maintenance documentation and work orders
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment
- Strong electrical background with industrial troubleshooting experience
- Experience troubleshooting PLC-controlled equipment
- Experience maintaining processing and packaging equipment
- Knowledge of mechanical systems, pneumatics, hydraulics, and vacuum systems
- Preventative maintenance experience
- Ability to troubleshoot and solve practical equipment problems
- Ability to interpret written, verbal, and diagram-based instructions
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to safety
- Ability to work in a cold, loud, and wet manufacturing environment
- Ability to stand for extended periods and perform physically demanding work, including frequent lifting up to 50 pounds
- Food manufacturing experience preferred
- Experience with USDA / FSIS-regulated environments preferred
- Welding and fabrication experience preferred
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Addison, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Electrical Power Systemsunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Employee Retentionunmatched
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)unmatched
- Equipment Maintenance/Repairunmatched
- Food Productionunmatched
- GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)unmatched
- Hand Toolsunmatched
- Hazardous Materials/Substancesunmatched
- Hydraulic Engineeringunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Lift/Move 50 Poundsunmatched
- Machiningunmatched
- Maintenance - Electricalunmatched
- Maintenance Servicesunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Equipment Maintenanceunmatched
- Mechanical Maintenanceunmatched
- OSHAunmatched
- Operations Managementunmatched
- Physical Demandsunmatched
- Preventative Maintenanceunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Production Controlunmatched
- Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)unmatched
- Safety Trainingunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Schematicsunmatched
- Systems Maintenanceunmatched
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)unmatched
- Weldingunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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