**Job Title: Maintenance Technician** **Job Description** As a Maintenance Technician, you will be responsible for performing preventative maintenance, repairs, and troubleshooting on a variety of food production plant equipment. This includes working with case packers, processing machines, blenders, grinders, scales, conveyors, motors, and gearboxes. Your role will involve working in both the canning and packaging departments, and you will be expected to handle machinery such as casers, sifters, dumbers, and boilers. You will also be required to test voltages, wire motors, use a multimeter, and perform minor welding and fabrication as needed. Basic facilities maintenance tasks, such as plumbing and fixing lighting, will also be part of your duties. **Responsibilities** + Perform preventative maintenance on food production plant equipment. + Repair and troubleshoot equipment including case packers, processing machines, blenders, grinders, scales, conveyors, motors, and gearboxes. + Work in both canning and packaging departments. + Handle machinery such as casers, sifters, dumbers, and boilers. + Test voltages, wire motors, and use a multimeter. + Perform minor welding and fabrication as needed. + Conduct basic facilities maintenance tasks such as plumbing and fixing lighting. **Essential Skills** + 1 year of industrial maintenance experience maintaining food production equipment. + Mechanical troubleshooting skills. + Knowledge of hydraulics and pneumatics. + Experience with preventive maintenance. + Ability to repair motors. + Willingness to perform minimal electrical tasks. **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + Vocational training or schooling in a related field. + Experience in a demanding field such as farming is beneficial. + Mechanical skills are highly valued. **Why Work Here?** This is a direct hire position with strong benefits and insurance. The company offers a stable and growing environment, providing opportunities for overtime and career advancement. They will replace your tools if they break, provide steel toes and safety glasses, and cover tuition for you and your children to attend a trade school or a 2-year community college. Onsite training is available to help you advance to higher-paying positions. **Job Type & Location** This is a Permanent position based out of Beloit, Wisconsin **Pay and Benefits** The pay range for this position is $62400.00 - $72800.00 -Direct Hire -Strong benefits and insurance -Will replace your tools if you break them if you bring your own -Very stable and growing company - Hormel is a staple. No lay offs -OT available (working 6 or 7 days a week usually) -They provide steel toes and safety glasses -Will cover your tuition and your kids tuition to a trades school or 2 year community college -Pay is $32.35 for Mechanics. Can work your way up to a Tech and to a Electrical Tech and get up to $35/hr with their onsite training **Workplace Type** This is a fully onsite position in Beloit,WI. **Application Deadline** This position will be accepting applications until Jan 29, 2025. **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.