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Position Overview:
Within General Mills, our manufacturing facilities are committed to achieving zero human and food safety incidents and it is every employee's responsibility to fully support this vision. The Maintenance Mechanic supports the plant departments by responding in a timely manner to service and/or repair plant equipment and facility. The General Mills Reed City Plant operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The starting wage for aGeneral Maintenance Mechanic (GMM) position is $25.72/hour with opportunity to advance in skill level up to $32.97/hour. General Mills also offers shift differential payment for those working off-shift. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) and pension.
Main Responsibilities:
- Follow all company safety policies and procedures to ensure a safe working environment
- Install, maintain, trouble-shoot, and repair industrial yogurt processing and packaging machinery, work tools and equipment
- Provide technical support and plant leadership for equipment troubleshooting and equipment modifications
- Perform both uptime and down time preventative maintenance in adherence to the master PM schedule
- Perform corrective maintenance work orders
- Repair and maintain building utilities
- Ability to learn and perform minor machining and welding tasks
- Design and layout circuits, install fixtures, wiring conduits, motors, and other electrical equipment/components
- Participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives to increase platform performance
- Assist with training new employees as needed
- Attend meetings and trainings as required
- Perform additional related tasks as assigned
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be 18 years of age or older
- Must have the ongoing right to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
- High School Diploma or GED
- 3 years of experience in manufacturing maintenance or related experience
- Experience with PLC
- Working knowledge and demonstrated skills in the installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of piping systems
- Working knowledge and demonstrated skills in arc welding, gas welding and solder practices
- Mechanical, math, troubleshooting and problem-solving and basic computer skills
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Proficiency in basic computer skills
- Must be able to lift, move, push, pull 50 lbs on a regular basis
- Must be able to perform physical tasks for extended periods of time, including standing, walking, climbing, bending, squatting, pushing, pulling and twisting over surfaces
- Willing and able to work any shift schedule, including nights and weekends, daily overtime or overtime outside of your regular scheduled hours as required (more than 40 hours per week)
- Ability to wear protective clothing and equipment such as safety shoes, face masks, safety glasses, hearing protection, hard hat/bump cap, hair/beard net and gloves when required
- Ability to work in hot, cold, noisy, dusty, wet environmental working conditions
- Ability to climb and/or work at heights while utilizing stairs, ladders, personnel lifts, or platforms
- Ability to work with allergens that might be present in a food environment
- Ability to work around industrial high-speed moving machinery
- Willing and able to adhere to all grooming requirements necessary for a food manufacturing environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in welding
- Experience in Vertical Mill
- Experience in Lathe machining
COMPANY OVERVIEW
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best - bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together.Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surroundingourselves with peoplewho are hungry for what's next.
