**Job Title: Maintenance Technician** **Job Description** In this role, responsibilities include adhering to safety and food safety regulations, enhancing the Preventative Maintenance program to reduce downtime, and troubleshooting and repairing various systems including PLCs, electrical, and mechanical systems. Duties also involve collaborating with multiple departments, organizing the maintenance shop using 5S methodology, and learning the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system. • Responsible for maintaining and PM's of baking equipment & conveyor systems. • Troubleshoot and repair mixing equipment, extruders, servos, VFDs, sensors, feed control systems, refrigeration, proofer, conveyors, boilers, silos and oven equipment. • Build, replace, rotate, inspect and change parts of industrial machines. • Connect power to machines, install motors and rewiring of motors per blueprints and schematics. • Move machinery and equipment, using hoists, dollies and forklifts. • Perform MIG welding on steel and aluminum material. • Run conduit and electrical wiring to new industrial machines. • Fabricate parts using drill press, cutting out holes, and making parts. **Hard Skills** + Experience troubleshooting and PM of automated equipment + Experience with assembly equipment (conveyors) + Experience building industrial equipment + Experience rebuilding 3 phase motors + MIG welding + Electrical wiring + Fabrication **Soft Skills** + Collaboration + Organization + Adaptability **Job Type** This is a permanent position. **Work Site** This is a fully on-site position in Kalamazoo, Michigan. **Work Environment** 6:00 PM to 6:00 AM, 3-4 days a week. Typical work week includes (3) 12-hour shifts and always includes Fridays. If nobody volunteers, shifts are mandated starting with the lowest seniority. The 4th shift is also a 12-hour shift. Union environment. The plant environment is hot and fast-paced, typically 10-20 degrees warmer than the outside temperature due to industrial ovens. **About Aerotek:** We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow. Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.