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Maintenance Technician

Location: FILL OUT

The backbone of any organization is a team that is dedicated to keeping things in order. Our valued maintenance teams keep things running, our business in motion, and our customers successful. As a maintenance mechanic with Gordon Food Service, you’ll have the opportunity to be hands-on with building schematics/blueprints, hydraulics, electrical troubleshooting, HVAC systems, conveyor systems, building maintenance, cranes, hi-speed doors, and more. We have high standards for safety, stability, and training to ensure our people are safe and that our business is always running at top performance. We offer a clean organized parts room and we provide the heavier specialty tools; you just bring the basics. Be part of a skilled team that offers respect, expertise, and professional development!

Schedule: FILL OUT

Pay: $FILL OUT per hour- Based on experience

• Annual $500 tool allowance and $150 yearly shoe allowance

Total Rewards at GFS

• Affordable benefits plans start day one!

• Weekly pay 

• Wellness reimbursement 

• Profit sharing & 401(k) with company match 

• Emergency child and elder care 

• 95% of leadership is hired from within GFS - start your career here!

• No travel required

Does this look like you?

• You must be 18 years of age or older 

• High school diploma or GED certificate

• Powered Industrial Vehicle certification required

• Minimum one year maintaining and repairing PIV or warehouse related equipment and facilities

• You'll be asked to do work in high places, freezing cold spaces, inside/outside, and anywhere within the building where you are needed

• Successful passing of drug screen and background check

• Able to lift/move up to 100 lbs during your shift

• Gordon Food Service encourages veterans and active military members to apply!

Equipment / Tools / Technology:

• Desktop or laptop computer 

• Networked printer/copier/facsimile machine

• Google Apps (Chrome, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, etc...)

• Telephone & voicemail

• Powered Industrial Vehicles

• Various power and hand tools

• Voltage Ammeter & Ohmmeter (VOM) to measure voltage, current and resistance

• Human-Machine Interface (HMI)

Position Summary:

Manual Distribution Centers

• Maintains Powered Industrial Vehicles (PIV), fire protection systems, dock equipment, including levelers and restraints, lighting inside and outside, dock doors, industrial batteries and chargers, racking and other duties as assigned.

• Performs maintenance and repairs on the building and building systems. This includes preventative maintenance and repairs, along with responding to calls and performing system enhancements. 

Mechanized Distribution Centers

• Maintains Powered Industrial Vehicles (PIV), fire protection systems, dock equipment, including levelers and restraints, lighting inside and outside, dock doors, industrial batteries and chargers, racking and other duties as assigned.

• Performs maintenance and repairs on material handling systems. This includes preventative maintenance along with responding to calls and performing system enhancements. 

Essential Functions:

• Performs preventative maintenance on building equipment and systems to ensure safe and efficient operation.

• Observes mechanical devices in operation, perform diagnostic routines and troubleshoots to locate root cause of problems and makes appropriate adjustments and repairs.

• Performs electrical diagnostics on equipment and makes necessary repairs based on the diagnosis.

• Dismantles devices to gain access to and remove defective parts using hoists, hand and power tools. 

• Maintains a maintenance shop, storage closets and tool rooms  in a neat and orderly fashion. 

• Follows through and completes all work orders in assigned time period

• Maintains appropriate levels of material handling equipment inventory.

• Tracks and completes all preventative maintenance utilizing Maximo CMMS (computerized maintenance management system)

• Ensures compliance with OSHA and other federal, state, and local guidelines. 

• Adheres to the mission and cornerstone values and applicable practices of the organization. 

• Maintains knowledge of current trends and developments in the field by reading appropriate books, journals and other literature and attending related conferences, seminars, etc. Maintains peer relationships in the field to share issues and ideas. 

• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities: Level 2 Technician

Supervision Level:

• Daily 1-1 with leadership on the floor

• Very intensive leadership oversight, minimal independence

• 50% of work must be inspected and employee feedback provided

Mentorship:

• Must be assigned a peer mentor from Level 3 Technician or higher

• Level 2 is allowed to only act as a mentor to Level 1 Technicians

E-learning Requirements:

• Honeywell Level 1-3 completion (within 12 months for external hires to this role)

Work Habits:

• Must have a high level of initiative

• Must work safe on a consistent basis

• Employee must respond to all calls for support from other departments and from their own team quickly

Knowledge:

• Basic mechanical skills

  • Component identification

  • Proper, and safe, use of hand tools

  • Ability to perform basic PM’s after being shown 

  • Ability to explain proper lubrication on various equipment

  • Ability to mechanically remove an electric motor, replace and align

  • Ability to tear down and rebuild hydraulic, water or sewerage pump

  • Ability to explain fire protection and building utility drawings (gas, electric, fire, etc..)

• Basic electrical skills

  • Component identification

  • Ability to use meter to check continuity

  • Ability to use meter to check amp draw

  • Ability to use meter to check voltage phase/phase and phase/neutral

  • Ability to adequately explain the buildings arc flash study, safety measures and arc flash ratings

Job Performance:

• Assigned Maintenance Percentage - Less than 10.0% per month

• Work Order Failures - No more than 3 per month

• Ability to effectively evaluate and assess essential equipment maintenance malfunctions and communicate status, progress and completion timelines to leadership

Work Assignments:

• PM’s (Preventive Maintenance) are fully independent 

• Minimum of 50% of assigned work is inspected

• No critical equipment assignments are allowed

Educational & Experience Requirements:

• Minimum one year maintaining and repairing PIV or warehouse related equipment and facilities.

• Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Maintenance, Mechatronics, Engineering, or equivalent certifications/degrees, or verifiable work experience in these fields preferred.

• High School/Equivalent required.

Preferred

Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Maintenance, Mechatronics, Engineering, or equivalent certifications/degrees, or verifiable work experience in these fields

Work Experience

Minimum one year maintaining and repairing PIV or warehouse   

                         related equipment and facilities

BE PART OF AN AMAZING CULTURE WHERE WHAT MATTERS TO YOU, MATTERS TO US!

Gordon Food Service values our customers and understands that their success is largely dependent upon their workforce. To demonstrate our commitment to our partnership, we will require any candidate who works for a Gordon Food Service customer to provide a letter of support from their management if they are selected for the interview process.

Equal Employment Opportunity is a matter of policy at Gordon Food Service, Inc. and we are committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.  If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, please submit your request to talent@gfs.com and use the words “Accommodation Request” in your subject line. 

All Gordon Food Service locations are tobacco-free.

Gordon Food Service is a drug-free workplace and conducts pre-employment drug tests.