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The Lead Maintenance Technician role reports to the Maintenance Supervisor and is responsible for performing a vast array of highly diversified duties that include training mechanical technicians on installations of new equipment, troubleshooting, repair, preventative, and predictive maintenance. As well the lead technician is responsible for understanding and adhering to electrical maintenance safety performed by qualified Electricians of all equipment, machinery, and buildings.

The Lead Tech is the first line of defense and recommends for approval and upon receiving approval, implements process improvement initiatives to increase operation effectiveness and efficiencies and maintain equipment reliability. Responsible for ensuring to call out technical deficiencies and to assist in providing or attending training to fill the gaps in knowledge of company assets. Assist in prioritization of departmental efforts to ensure all assignments in a manner that proactively supports all overall company goals and objectives; this includes safety, quality, and productivity initiatives. Expected to take on project work and fill in as the Maintenance Supervisor from time to time in the absence of the incumbent Supervisor for any foreseen and unforeseen absences.

The Lead Tech is a working leader and will be responsible for a portion of the daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annual, and annual Preventative maintenance and predictive maintenance tasks as well as the completion of work orders as needed to ensure the success of the team’s key performance indicators.

This is a fully on-site role at our facility in Hood River, Oregon.

This is an hourly, non-exempt position. The target compensation for this position is $36.50 per hour.

Essential Functions

• Lead preventative maintenance, predictive maintenance, efforts as well as maintenance repairs and troubleshooting of plant equipment within the areas of mechanical, electronic, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.
• Use tools such as basic hand tools, machine shop equipment, precision measuring instruments, Volt/Ohm meters, amp meters, and cutting and welding equipment safely and effectively.
• Complete assigned work orders, preventative maintenance, and predictive maintenance tasks in a timely and efficient manner.
• Work with members of the maintenance department to keep equipment and facilities running smoothly and safely.
• Identify equipment improvement opportunities to increase operation effectiveness and efficiencies.
• Operate all production equipment to perform functional operating checks and ensure work was performed as required.
• Ability to read and understand electrical and mechanical prints.
• Actively supports all company sustainability initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned

Competencies

• Technical, Mechanical, Electrical safety, wastewater knowledge, and small project management Capacities
• Safety First Mindset
• Teamwork Orientation
• Ethical Conduct
• Communications Proficiency
• Leadership

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Supervisory Responsibility: This position has process supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment can be loud.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and taste or smell. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 60 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. This position is also clerical roughly 20 percent of the workday, checking the CMMS ensuring work orders are closed and are assigned during the swing shift to the right personnel. A vital part of the clerical duties is to make sure work orders and PM Checklist are filled out properly and fully at the end of each shift.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work: This is an hourly, non-exempt position. Typical days are Monday through Friday, 40 hours per week. Shift work and flexibility in work schedules are required to accommodate business needs. Occasionally required to work long days, on weekends, and be on-call as job duties demand. Travel between Hood River locations is frequent as well as the potential need to travel for training with Original Equipment Manufacturers.

• Qualifications
  Required Education and Experience
• Maintenance experience
• Previous experience working in a manufacturing environment
• Basic computer skill with working knowledge of Microsoft office and
• computerized maintenance management systems
• Skilled operation of fork truck, man lift, and scissors lift.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Trade school certification or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience working with packaging, thermoform, and food processing equipment and its support equipment such as dryers, loaders, conveying systems and facilities
• Experience working with Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), variable frequency drives and instrumentation
• Limited Maintenance Electrician (LME) licensed in Oregon
• Food safety experience

In addition to your salary, we’ll provide:

• Employee-only medical and vision coverage that is 100% employer-paid; employee-only dental coverage that is 80% employer-paid
• Auto-enrollment and eligibility for Tofurky’s 401K contribution + match
• Employer-paid Life Insurance, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Employer-paid Personal Time Off and Holiday time

The Tofurky Company does not currently support immigration processing or provide Visa sponsorship. All applicants must be able to provide legal proof of their eligibility to work in the U.S.

The Tofurky Company values a diverse workforce. Women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ community are strongly encouraged to apply.

The Tofurky Company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, The Tofurky Company complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Tofurky is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Tofurky will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected].

For more than 35 years, Turtle Island Foods (d.b.a. The Tofurky Company) has been producing the friendliest food on the plate for plant-eaters, meat-eaters and people who resist labels. Our mission is to make great food everyone can enjoy, and we do it with respect for people, animals, and the planet. We carry out our mission by getting every bacon-chomping, barbecue-loving eater out there to see the wisdom of a plant-based diet by talking about what everyone wants to talk about: the food that makes them happy! Today, The Tofurky Company, a subsidiary of Morinaga Nutritional Foods, Inc., offers yumminess in over 35 products at over 25,000 grocery stores with our plant-based protein, Tofurky, and our dairy-free cheese, Moocho.

Working at Tofurky: At Tofurky, we may not all have the same beliefs about diet, sustainability, or what goes best with french fries. We’re not a monoculture (and we like it that way). But we can all get behind our mission of respect – whether it’s respect for our shared planet, for all species, for human health, or for our community and our employees. We are sure of one thing: people, animals, and the environment matter more than profit margins.