Maintenance Working Foreman

Seneca Foods is one of North America's leading providers of packaged fruits and vegetables with facilities located throughout the United States.  Our high quality products are primarily sourced from over 1,400 American farms. Seneca holds the largest share of the retail private label, food service, and export canned vegetable markets, distributing to over 90 countries. Products are also sold under the brands of Libby’s®, Aunt Nellie’s®, READ®, Seneca Farms®, Green Valley®, Green Giant (Shelf-Stable)®, CherryMan®, Paradise®, Pennant®, and Seneca labels, including Seneca snack chips. Seneca also provides vegetable products to other companies under various co-pack arrangements.

 

 

 

1. Maintain, inspect, adjust, disassemble, repair and reassemble, overhaul, rebuild, install or replace equipment to meet specifications and production requirements in mulitple areas without direct supervision.

2. Use advanced mechanical skills to troubleshoot and problem solve difficult or unique mechanical problems in multiple areas of the facility, and without direct supervision.

3. Use advanced mechanical skills to design, layout, and plan construction, installation or replacement of equipment and or structures.

4. Use advanced mechanical skills to perform more detailed fabrication of parts, equipment, or structures, to include load bearing structures, in multiple areas of the facility.

5. Contact, schedule, and work directly with service providers or vendors as needed.

6. Work with management to ensure preventative maintenance programs are up to date and maintained.

7. Develop/write SWI's or other training materials to use in training new or junior mechanics.

8. Train and develop new and junior mechanics.

9. Work with management to ensure parts are ordered/reordered to maintain proper inventory level necessary for the production season as well as off season rebuild. 

dvanced mechanical skills and understanding of equipment operation and capabilities to be able to repair, install, modify, adjust, equipment in multiple areas, in a timely manner, and without direct supervision.

2. Has advanced mechanical skills and can competently work in their assigned area, and has proven skills to work in at least four, or more, of the following areas: (Could be considered a mechanical expert in one or more areas)

 

Preparation Equipment (Beets & Carrots)      Palletizers/Depalletizers/Wrapper        Waste water treatment                                                               Color sorters                                                                         Boilers/Water Treatment                        Fork lifts/Tractors/Manlifts                                            Fill & close equipment                                                                         Electrical/PLC                                             Seasonal housing                                                                                                   

Cookers                                                            Beet color      

 

3. Advanced mechanical knowledge to understand structural design and is able to design, layout, and fabricate more complex structures/parts/equipment in detail ("factory quality") to meet production, quality, and safety standards.

4. Can read, understand and follow maintenance and operational manuals, blue prints, sketches or electrical diagrams to perform maintenance and/or troubleshoot equipment problems.  Can also update prints and diagrams as changes occur to plant equipment or systems.

5. Advanced mechanical ability to understand, troubleshoot, repair, adjust, rebuild, replace, design at least three of the  following systems: hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical circuitry, piping systems, brine systems and components.