Black Gold Farms is seeking a proactive and skilled Pack Shed Maintenance Technician at our Packing Facility in Delhi, LA. The Maintenance Technician position is critical on our farm and is essential in helping the operation be successful. This role requires someone with a positive, can-do attitude, and good communication and people skills. The position will create efficiencies through proper planning, service, repair and maintenance of equipment including management of control of parts, supplies, and timing. The individual will communicate between the Ops Support Team, the Pack Shed, and the Farm Team with regard to equipment issues. This role is essential to maintaining seamless operations, supporting production, optimizing machinery performance, minimizing downtime, and fostering a safe, clean, efficient, and proactive work environment. This position offers an exciting opportunity to apply your technical skills in a fast-paced environment dedicated to continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Key responsibilities of the position include:
- Overall condition and proper operation of the equipment at the Pack Shed.
- Manage the maintenance and repairs performed to all Pack Shed equipment. Schedule and determine needs for repairs.
- Perform general maintenance and repairs across production equipment
- Maintain and track preventative maintenance (PM) programs and logs
- Assist in preseason planning of equipment needs
- Oversee incoming equipment condition and set-up, and departing equipment condition and disassembly necessary
- Communicate equipment deficiencies and downtime needs to lead employees and supervisors
- Assist with keeping equipment inventories accurate
- Ensure adequate inventory is maintained on site for day-to-day operations
- Assist in other areas to promote cross-training and teamwork
- Maintain a clean, safe, and organized work area
- Ensure shop area, equipment, and parts room remain Tour Ready at all times
The ideal candidate should possess the following skills and experience:
- Strong leadership skills to guide maintenance team effectively
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
- Experience with Microsoft Office products, online inventory management, and maintenance scheduling
- Welding (Fabrication)
- Basic electrical troubleshooting and repair skills (low and high voltage)
- Packing machinery troubleshooting and repair skills
- Knowledge and experience in PLCs
- Basic understanding of liquid conveyance (pumps, piping, valves)
Job Type: Year-round, Full-time, Benefit Eligible
Pay: $57,000-$63,000 (dependent on experience)
Schedule: Flexible schedule, weekends, and evenings required during holiday season’s
Work Location: In person
Black Gold Farms is recognized as a leader in the potato production industry for our high-quality potatoes, our sales, and our customer service. We have been around since 1928. That’s over 95 years of digging deeper and living life by our seven aspects of culture: Values, Transparency, Team, Excellence, Customer, Passion, and Innovation.
When you join Black Gold Farms, you become part of a progressive, dynamic, and innovative organization. Our people are passionate about becoming the best at what they do, and we give them the tools to do it. We work hard to ensure that each person that is a part of our team is offered: an opportunity to grow personally and professionally, rewards that include more than earning a salary, impactful work that matters, a culture that includes being a part of our family, and values that extend locally and globally. With a fourth-generation family-owned company like this you truly become part of the family.
At Black Gold Farms, we get food to the table and feed the world while sustaining our land, our company, and the communities across the country where we work and live. Every person has an important job to do. And every step counts – from the farm to the store.
Black Gold Farms offers an excellent benefits package, including health, dental, and vision; a company funded health savings account; life and AD&D insurance; flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) program with a company match; paid time off; incentive compensation, employee assistance program; professional development; and tuition reimbursement.
Black Gold Farms is committed to maintaining an inclusive workplace as an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Note: The job posting is not intended to be all-inclusive. The employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.
Pay: $57,000.00 - $63,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
