Maintenance Technician IV

Pay: $32.24 per hour plus Shift Differential: $1.00 per hour

Shift & Working Hours: 2nd Shift; 3:00 PM to 11:00 PM; Weekends/Overtime/Holidays as needed.
 

JOB SUMMARY:

In this role, you’ll be a key member of our Land O’Lakes, Inc. manufacturing team, performing maintenance of the facility and production equipment to ensure our plants can add value and quality to the inputs and creation of final high-quality products. You’ll be responsible for the installation, ongoing maintenance, and necessary repairs for the facility and the production equipment. You will work with a variety of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems and controls. Join our team to become part of a member-owned co-op that is Rooted In Tomorrow.

This role is part of our Purina Animal Nutrition business who serves producers and animal owners throughout the United States. We innovate the nutrition products and practices that unlock the full potential of every animal for a healthier, more productive life.

The Maintenance Technician focuses on troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining systems critical to feed manufacturing, including but not limited to batching, drying, packaging, and material handling equipment. This position plays a key role in miniminizing downtime, improving equipment reliability, and supporting safe, efficient operations.

• Troubleshoot, repair mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, robotic, and hydraulic systems.
• Maintain and repair equipment including but not limited to:
  • Conveyors (drag, screw, bucket elevators)
  • Mixers and batching systems
  • Automated and manual packaging equipment
  • Fluid bed dryer

• Perform preventive and predictive maintenance to reduce unplanned downtime
• Diagnose equipment failures using meters, diagnostic tools, and PLC interfaces
• Support lockout/tagout (LOTO) and ensure all work is performed safely
• Read and interpret electrical schematics, blueprints, and equipment manualsWork cross-functionally with operations to prioritize and execute repairs
• Document work completed in Express Maintenance
• Complies with all safety processes and insists on safety practices of self and others

• Ensures all standard operating procedures are followed
• Able to multi-task and keep up with demands in a fast-paced environment

Required Experience and Skills:

• Must be 18 years or older
• 1-3+ years of industrial or building facility maintenance experience
• Basic computer and math skills
•  Able to read, write, comprehend, follow verbal and written instructions and product manuals
• Willingness to learn new skills, problem-solve and troubleshoot
•  Strong collaboration, communication skills, and is always respectful
   

Preferred Experience:

• 5+ years’ experience working with basic electrical systems, compressors, welding, plumbing, conveyers, hydraulics, packaging, PLC, pneumatics, preventive maintenance, and pumps.
•  LOTO experience
•  Forklift experience

Physical Requirements:

• Able to lift/carry up to 50 pounds
•  Frequent movements include walking, standing, bending/stooping, turning, twisting, pushing, pulling, raising arms, lifting, climbing and other active movements
• Performing duties while wearing personal protective equipment
• Working in temperature zones that include cold and/or hot environments for extended periods and may include areas where dust and chemicals are present

Nothing in this job description restricts the management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Land O’Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled.  The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.

About Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.

We provide a broad portfolio of benefits to keep you and your family at your best. Land O'Lakes is Where Your Future Takes Root.

Land O’Lakes and our global entities support diversity in employment practices.

Neither Land O’Lakes, nor its affiliates or search firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like this, please do not provide the information being requested.    

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