**Job Title: Maintenance Technician** **Job Description** You will be responsible for troubleshooting and providing immediate preventive maintenance and full maintenance repair for building equipment and production lines. You will support the PM program by suggesting ways to shorten downtime and perform mechanical and electrical maintenance repairs on production machines, validating solutions with engineers. Additionally, you will troubleshoot electrical and mechanical systems, ensuring solutions are documented and completed accurately. You will assist with changeovers and line start-ups, as well as handle parts ordering and communicate with vendors and outsource water line teams. **Responsibilities** + Troubleshoot and provide immediate preventive maintenance and full maintenance repair for building equipment and production lines. + Support the PM program by suggesting ways to shorten downtime. + Perform mechanical and electrical maintenance repairs on production machines and validate solutions with engineers. + Troubleshoot electrical and mechanical systems, ensuring solutions are documented and completed accurately. + Assist with changeovers and line start-ups as needed. + Handle parts ordering and communicate with vendors and outsource water line teams. **Essential Skills** + Mechanical maintenance + Electrical maintenance + Hydraulics + Pneumatics + Maintenance repair + 3-phase electrical systems + Reading blueprints + Facilities maintenance + Motors + 5 plus years of industrial maintenance experience + Minimum 2 years of electrical processing knowledge + Ability to read electrical and pneumatic schematics **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + Food manufacturing or processing experience + Spanish-speaking + Welding experience **Why Work Here?** Established in 1898, our company has a long history and has been privately held since 2009. We offer great benefits and are part of Union 399, with contracts that renew every 4 years. The work environment is supportive and offers opportunities for growth. **Work Environment** You will work in a GMP environment with 3-4 production lines, including herring, smoked salmon, fresh salmon, and ready-to-eat food lines. As part of a 2-man maintenance team, you will be the third member. Please note that there may be a fishy smell, but masks can be worn due to GMP requirements. **Job Type & Location** This is a Permanent position based out of Chicago, Illinois. **Pay and Benefits** The pay range for this position is $65000.00 - $85000.00/yr. Union 399 - health, medical and dental. pention will be given to employees. They will also have quarterly bonuses and privately held perks. **Workplace Type** This is a fully onsite position in Chicago,IL. **Application Deadline** This position is anticipated to close on Mar 10, 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.