Maintenance - Full-time / Part-time

Cargill Salt, a business unit of Cargill, Incorporated, is a leader in the industry, providing salt, service and solutions to the food, water conditioning, agricultural, industrial, and packaged ice control markets. Cargill Salt is currently accepting applications for Maintenance Technicians. With a strong culture that focuses on people, this is an outstanding opportunity for qualified individuals interested in:

A safety focused culture

Team environment

Development

Competitive salary

Incentive program

Comprehensive benefits package

This role is responsible for maintaining, repairing and performing preventative and predictive maintenance on equipment for a salt manufacturing and packaging facility.

Principal accountabilities include:

Maintain, repair, and perform Preventative Maintenance (PM) and Predictive Maintenance (PdM) rounds on processing and packing equipment such as baggers, palletizers, stretch wrappers, screw conveyors, and bucket elevators and/or production equipment such as tractors, pickups, heavy mobile equipment, conveyors, pumps, piping systems, and mixers

Maintain, repair, and perform PM and PdM rounds on all production equipments such as pumps, fans, boilers, centrifuges, piping/valve systems, mobile equipment, etc.

Learn and utilize precision maintenance craft skills

Welding skills including stick and MIG welding of carbon and stainless steel and basic fabrication

Set rigging

Secondary Accountabilities include:

Read blue prints, understand task symbols, and read operation manuals

Assist with inventory and parts as needed

Troubleshoot electrical controls

PdM skills will be learned and utilized as needed including lubrication, ultrasonic infrared, and vibration

Requirements

Be physically able to perform the job duties including bending, stooping , shoveling, sweeping, pounding with hammers, climbing stairs and ladders, opening and closing valves, lifting 50 lbs., extended driving/riding/maneuvering of forklifts, etc.

Be willing and able to attend job related training and attain marks which indicate satisfactory knowledge of the job requirements.

Demonstrated willingness to work extended hours/days when necessary.

Be willing and able to work a variety of shifts (including weekends and holidays)

Demonstrated positive attitude toward/interest in safety and safe work rules.

Have the ability to perform basic arithmetic (add, subtract, multiply, divide).

Right to work in the U.S. that is not based solely on possession of a student visa or a visa sponsored by a third-party employer.

Assets

Sound understanding and/or experience/aptitude with packaging systems and conveying equipment.

Experience/aptitude computerized equipment (ie: scales, controllers, computer based operator interfaces, etc.)

Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and in a positive manner.

Demonstrated ability to work well in teams.

Demonstrated willingness to assume extended job responsibility and exercise good judgment in decision making.

As with all positions, offers of employment are conditional upon:

Passing a pre-employment physical, drug screen, and a criminal background screen

Verification of identity and employment eligibility

At Cargill, we believe that employees must have the opportunity to do what they do best every day. We want to understand the things that you do better than others - the talents that you rely on to succeed.