Lactalis North America is currently seeking candidates to join our Maintenance team in Turlock, CA.

Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

If you’re looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirt, hands-on responsibility and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!

Lactalis North America: inviting you to share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE.

From your PASSION to ours

This position is responsible for providing maintenance to all plant processing and packaging equipment, plant utilities, and building and grounds, which include boilers, refrigeration, coolers, HVAC, air compressors, fire suppression system, electrical/pneumatic controls and switch gear, water system and sewer, vehicles and fork lifts.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Perform daily preventative maintenance of equipment and systems.
• Repair of mechanical and building equipment in timely manner to limit production loss.
• Troubleshoot and repair of hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical equipment.
• Install equipment per layout drawings.
• Prepare parts list for ordering as required.
• Help plant production personnel troubleshoot production problem

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Experience

• One or more years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education experience.

Skills / Abilities

• Knowledge and application of Good Manufacturing Practices.
• Ability to pay strong attention to detail and multitask effectively.
• Skills in and knowledge of mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems.
• Ability to weld stainless and make food grade repairs.
• Ability to read and understand blueprints.
• Good problem solving skills, ability to follow and use root cause analysis.
• Basic math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, procedures and related documents as needed).
• Ability to pay strong attention to detail multi-task effectively.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Good to excellent spelling, grammar and written communication skills.
• Excellent telephone and oral communication skills.