Job Description
Brief Description:
We are looking for team members who come to the table with a shared passion for making food the world loves, to solve problems and shape General Mills for the future. As a part of our manufacturing group, you will be responsible for preventative and reactive maintenance of processing and packaging equipment and providing technical support to improve and optimize within the manufacturing operations and processes. General Mills encourages growth for our employees; if you want to learn new things, attain and prove competency quickly, and apply technology in the manufacturing space; GMI is a great place to start.
What your compensation looks like:
- $32.84 per hour after 1 year of employment
- $28.40 per hour after 3 months of employment
- $26.90 per hour to start
- Additional $1.00 per hour when working off-shift work schedules
- 15 days (120 hours) of vacation annually (depending on your schedule) and 11 paid company holidays
- Great paid time off benefits
- 401(k) match
- Health Insurance- includes medical, dental, vision and life
- And much more!
What your day will look like:
- Creating high quality foods that are eaten EVERYDAY, NATIONWIDE
- Using TECHNOLOGY in an industry-leading facility
- Working with HIGH-LEVEL operators on EXPERIENCED teams that are looking to pass down their knowledge to workers WILLING TO LEARN and get paid doing it
- CHALLENGING yourself to get the JOB DONE RIGHT and gain skills to take with you to your next opportunity
- Installing, maintaining, repairing, and replacing industrial processing and packaging machinery, work tools and equipment
- Design and layout circuits, installing fixtures, wiring conduits, motors, and other electrical equipment/components, including proven ability to use multimeter
- Identifying and troubleshooting mechanical issues
- Providing technical support and plant leadership for equipment troubleshooting and equipment modifications
- Performing both uptime and downtime preventative maintenance
- Participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives to increase platform performance
- Assist in training new employees
What your schedule will look like:
- 12-hour shifts – night position. Shift schedules are determined upon hire.
- 5 pm to 5 am
- 6 pm to 6 am
- 6:30 pm to 6:30 am
- Ability and willingness to work overtime, any shift, including days, nights, weekends, holidays, and emergency events
- Plant operation is 24 hours a day, 7 days per week
What your growth will look like:
- Be a part of a team that will learn and grow
- Develop leadership skills, that will allow you to focus on new KNOWLEDGE and ability to adopt and implement those ideas
- Ability to operate within a safety culture
- Expanded technical capabilities
What you have to offer:
- Minimum of a high school education or GED
- 2 years of experience in industrial maintenance or equivalent education in a related field
- Proven ability to use multimeter and other electrical equipment/components
- Working knowledge of PLCs, HVAC, pneumatic and hydraulic systems preferred
- Experience in a manufacturing/production environment preferred
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs
- Must be able to perform physical tasks for extended periods of time including standing, walking, climbing, bending, pushing, pulling, and twisting over surfaces
- Ability to climb and/or work at heights while utilizing stairs, ladders, personnel lifts, or platforms
- Ability to wear protective clothing and equipment such as safety shoes, face masks, safety glasses, hearing protection, a hard hat, a hair/beard net, and gloves when required
- Willing and able to adhere to all grooming requirements necessary for a food manufacturing environment
- Ability to work in hot, cold, noisy, dusty, wet environmental working conditions
- Willing to work around industrial high-speed moving machinery
- Ability to work with allergens that might be present in a food environment
- Need to be able to work in a tobacco free environment
