SunOpta

About SunOpta

SunOpta delivers customized supply chain solutions and innovation for top brands, retailers, and foodservice providers across a broad portfolio of beverages, broths, and better-for-you snacks. With over 50 years of expertise, SunOpta fuels customers’ growth with high-quality, sustainability-forward solutions distributed through retail, club, foodservice, and e-commerce channels across North America.

Job Summary:

Production Maintenance Technician I is responsible for a qualified individual with proven maintenance skills. Responsibilities include efficient maintenance and repair of all extraction, filling, mix-blend, and production equipment. Conducts preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and assisting with other projects as assigned reporting to the Maintenance Supervisor/Manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs planned, corrective, and unplanned maintenance on specified equipment.
• Uses available documentation for equipment to troubleshoot and repair equipment.
• Ensure safety in the workplace by eliminating unsafe conditions.
• Maintain a clean and organized work area.
• Supports Quality Systems.
• Protect Company assets by the direct intervention of any condition resulting in the abuse of equipment or buildings.
• Executes the preventive maintenance program as directed by the Maintenance Supervisor.
• Inspects operating machines and equipment for conformance with operational standards.
• Maintains communication (oral and written) within the maintenance team to ensure smooth shift transitions.
• Other duties, as assigned or required.

Key Accountabilities:

• Technical ability – understand manufacturing equipment and processes.
• Detail Orientation – breaks large tasks into small parts and understands the small parts that make up the whole.
• Business Acumen- aligns work with plant goals.
• Judgment- Exhibit’s sound and accurate judgment.
• Motivation- Sets and achieves challenging goals; demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles; measures self against standard of excellence; takes calculated risks to accomplish.
• Planning/Organizing- Prioritizes and plans work activities; uses time efficiently.
• Professionalism- Approaches others in a tactful manner, treats others with respect and consideration, accepts responsibility for own actions; follows through on commitments.
• Quality- Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; looks for ways to improve and promote quality; applies feedback to improve performance; monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Adaptability- Adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands, changes approach or method to best fit the situation, able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
• Dependability- Follow instructions, responds to management direction, takes responsibility for own actions; keeps commitments; commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals. Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.
• Initiative- Volunteers readily; undertakes self-development activities; seeks increased responsibilities; asks for and offers help when needed.
• Innovation- Displays original thinking and creativity; meets challenges with resourcefulness; generates suggestions for improving work.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School diploma or GED.
• Two or more years related experience in a food grade facility.
• Ability to understand/apply general mathematical concepts (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral diagram or schedule form.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Aseptic processing and high-speed form/fill/seal packaging experience.
• Ability to apply concepts such as factions and percentages.
• Knowledge of business software, and manufacturing software (HMIs, PLCs, and manufacturing controls).
• Self-starter with ability to work in a team-based environment.

Additional Considerations:

• Location: This role will be at the SunOpta Plant in Allentown, PA.
• Shift: This position will be a night shift role, 5:30 pm to 6:00 am on a 2-2-3 pattern. 36 hours one week/48 hours the next week, includes every other weekend. Some flexibility needed.
• Pay Rate: $35.90/hour.
• Shift Differential: $2/hour for working a 12-hour night shift role.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

EOE M/W/VET/DISABLED