Tyson Foods

Maintenance Technician – Full Time – Rome, GA 30161

Posted on: 6 Feb 2021

Rome, GA

Job Description

This position starts at $19.33/hr. with a shift increase for second and third shift. We currently have open positions for second and third shift.

If you are looking to make an impact in a meaningful way, join us at Tyson Foods where we are raising the worlds expectations for how much good food can do! We create quality products in a safe environment for our team members. We offer great benefits and competitive pay. This facility operates five days a week and produces Granola and Cereal.

POSITION SUMMARY:

* This position is responsible for troubleshooting and resolving equipment issues on assigned shift.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Performing preventive maintenance on assigned equipment
* Lubricating, rebuilding, and replacing parts
* Cleaning machinery
* Assist engineering and plant staff with the specification, installation, and modification of integrated systems
* Provide technical support for all phases of the operation.
* Perform additional tasks as needed to include, but not limited to cross training on other machines and/or in other areas.

REQUIREMENTS:

* Must have at least 1 year of maintenance work experience in a manufacturing facility having previously worked in electrical and mechanical fields or have equivalent technical school experience in those fields.
* Applicant must live in the following counties: Floyd, Polk, Haralson, Cherokee+Etowah, and Bartow.
* Proficiency in multiple skill clusters including basic electricity, fluid power, mechanical systems, pneumatic systems, and manufacturing processes.
* Must be able to read equipment manuals, blueprints, etc
* Must be able to perform basic math calculations.
* Must be able to understand and follow verbal and written instructions.
* Must be willing to work in a production environment requiring safety glasses, hair/beard net, hearing protection, and other protective equipment provided by the Company.
* Must be willing to work in a hot environment with temperatures reaching up to 90 degrees.
* Must be willing to lift up to 50lbs.
* Responsibility (authority) for reporting quality and food safety noncompliance to authorized personnel with authority to initiate action.

Work Shift:

2ND SHIFT (United States of America)

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Tyson Foods

Springdale, AR

Tyson Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods. The company processes live fed cattle and live market hogs; fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, as well as case ready beef and pork, and fully-cooked meats; and raises and processes chickens into fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products.

It also supplies poultry breeding stock; sells allied products, such as hides and meats; and manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products, including ready-to-eat sandwiches, flame-grilled hamburgers, Philly steaks, pepperoni, bacon, breakfast sausage, turkey, lunchmeat, hot dogs, flour and corn tortilla products, appetizers, snacks, prepared meals, ethnic foods, side dishes, meat dishes, breadsticks, and processed meats. The company offers its products primarily under the Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, Aidells, ibp, State Fair, Gallo Salame, and Golden Island brands.

It sells its products through its sales staff to grocery retailers, grocery wholesalers, meat distributors, warehouse club stores, military commissaries, industrial food processing companies, chain restaurants or their distributors, live markets, international export companies, and domestic distributors who serve restaurants and foodservice operations, such as plant and school cafeterias, convenience stores, hospitals, and other vendors, as well as through independent brokers and trading companies. The company has a collaboration with IdentiGEN Ltd. Tyson Foods, Inc. was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas.

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