B-Shift Maintenance Mechanic | Primient

About Primient

Primient is a century old company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are a leading producer of food and industrial ingredients made from plant-based, renewable sources. We deliver value through deep technical, commercial, and operational excellence that is backed by our long-standing corn wet milling heritage. Wherever we are in the process, from field to customer, our priorities are focused on ensuring we produce the safest, highest quality products through practices that uphold both our responsibility and commitments to the challenge and drive for excellence, our people and our planet. We are a privately held company with locations across the US, Mexico, Poland, and Brazil. We’re investing in our plants and people to unlock our potential in the industrial and food sectors. Guided by our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth, we’re focused on growing our business, our reputation, and the career of every teammate.

About the Role

When you are a Maintenance Mechanic at Primient in our Dayton, Ohio Plant, you will be responsible for the safe operation, mechanical maintenance, and troubleshooting of a system that produces distinctive, high-quality ingredients and solutions to the food, beverage, and other industries. 

Compensation for our Maintenance Mechanic role is based on a Skill Block pay-for-knowledge system with starting pay @ $34.04 per hour increasing to $36.57 per hour following successful completion of a skills evaluation.  Additionally, we provide an excellent benefits package including health insurance and a 401K savings plan.

Key responsibilities: B- Shift Maintenance Mechanic

• Perform all duties following Primient’s safety procedures.

• Install machinery and equipment using equipment and tools such as hoists, lifting equipment, hand tools, and power tools. Dismantles machines, moves machinery, and equipment using the above-mentioned items.
• Precision alignment of machines and equipment using equipment and tools such as hoists, jacks, hand tools, scales, rules, micrometers, precision levels, plumb bobs, dial indicators and laser alignment tools.
• Repair, perform preventative maintenance and inspection on industrial equipment such as pumps, gear boxes, fans, conveyors, and packaging equipment.
• Perform building and grounds maintenance.
• Fabricate, install, maintain, and repair utility, process and sanitary piping and plumbing systems.  Uses hand and power tools and equipment to cut, solder, braze, weld, bend and thread materials used to work, and install piping and plumbing systems.
• Perform lubrication activities on industrial equipment such as oil and filter change, oil sampling.
• Work with materials necessary to fabricate, install, erect and repair metal parts and equipment.
• Use electric and gas welding equipment to weld, braze, heat, form, cut, and fuse items associated with this craft.
• Operate forklift, boom lift, and industrial moving equipment needed to perform duties.
• Keep tools, equipment, and work area clean and orderly.

• This is a 365/24/7 Operating Plant – requiring weekends and holidays.

B-Shift
B-Shift operates 2 pm-10 pm on a rotational basis with 7 days on & 2 days off, 7 days on & 1 day off, 7 days on & 4 days off (Repeating every 28 days)

About You

* Minimum of a high school diploma or the equivalent

• 3+ years of maintenance experience preferred at chemical industry and/or industrial manufacturing.

• Experience with installation and alignment of pumps, motors, gearboxes.

• Experience rebuilding industrial pumps, compressors, gearboxes, centrifuges.

• Experience working on lubrication and filtration systems.

• Experience prefabbing threaded pipe and welded pipe.

• Passionate about safety not only for yourself, but for your co-workers as well.

Total Rewards

Starting pay of $34.04/hr + overtime with opportunity to advance with our pay for skill system.

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• Competitive Pay​

• Multiple Healthcare plan choices​

• Dental and vision insurance