Maintenance Technician Starting Pay $29.00/hr

Tate & Lyle is a global provider of ingredients and solutions to the food, beverage and other industries, operating from more than 30 locations around the world. Through large scale, efficient manufacturing plants, Tate & Lyle turns raw materials into distinctive, high-quality ingredients. These ingredients and solutions add taste, texture, nutrition and increased functionality to products that millions of people around the world use or consume every day. We are the secret ingredient to Make Food Extraordinary in some of the world’s best loved brands. Could you be ours?

Role purpose

The Maintenance Technician is a critical role in our blending/packaging operations in Sycamore, IL.  The Maintenance Technician is required to maintain and repair a variety of production and plant facility equipment and assist the manager with ordering parts, standardizing components, and maintaining repair parts inventory.

Safety accountabilities – EHSQ Authority Responsibilities 2 and 3

Protecting our people and the environment is foundational to our business

Each team member is expected to support the Tate & Lyle culture where Environment, Health and Safety are the overriding values in all activities. Every team member is accountable for working safely and complying with all EHS policies, procedures, and regulations relevant to their work and is expected to speak up and intervene to prevent unsafe conditions and to respect fellow workers and the communities in which we work.  Included in this is abidance with our Life Saving Principles (LSPs) and our STOP WORK AUTHORITY which are developed to strengthen our workplace safety, prevent serious injury or loss of life.

EHS Authority index

Number

Element owner

1

Element support

2

EHSQ committee

3

EHSQ strategy definer

4

EHSQ strategy promoter

5

Benchmark data manager

6

Internal communication owner

7

EHSQ critical role

8

As a Maintenance Technician the incumbent is responsible for:

• Supporting TLIA’s EHSQ policies and procedures in the execution of their job responsibilities in routine, non-routine, and emergency conditions.
• Notifying their supervisor or EHSQ committee member of any spills, equipment malfunctions, environmental conditions, or management practice that could represent an existing or potential safety hazard or significant environmental impact.
• Notifying their supervisor or EHSQ committee member of any conditions or practices that could represent a nonconformance with the requirements of the EHSQMS or its supporting plans and procedures.
• Performance of the environmental, health and safety monitoring and inspections according to their job responsibilities and submittal of required records.
• Support lock tag try, confined space, hot work, and work permits.
• Understand the lifesaving principles and how they apply to TLIA’s work environment.

Main accountabilities

The Maintenance Technician must be able to work from daily job assignments, prints, schematics, wiring diagrams, machine manuals, sketches, and preventive maintenance work orders, and instructions to perform the following tasks:

• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair equipment breakdowns involving mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic components.
• Disassemble equipment, rebuild, and replace defective parts and components such as motors, gear boxes, bearings, and electrical components.
• Reassemble equipment and make final adjustments as needed.
• Perform repairs on blenders, fillers, conveyors, and other production equipment.
• Perform regular checks on building equipment such as pumps, valves, chillers, compressors, and power systems as required.
• Work closely with production personnel on needed equipment repairs.
• Set short term priorities in responding to plant breakdowns and emergency situations and work on off shifts as directed.
• Perform repairs and calibrate electronic instruments such as sensors, controls, scales, metal detectors.
• Assist outside contractors on on-site projects.
• Keep work area in a clean and orderly condition

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Successful candidates must pass a pre-employment physical and drug test.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.  The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands and fingers, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; c