**Job Title: Maintenance Technician** **Job Description** The Maintenance Technician is responsible for maintaining and repairing production equipment and facility systems in a fast-paced, GMP-regulated food manufacturing environment. This role involves performing both mechanical and electrical troubleshooting, supporting preventive maintenance programs, assisting with production line changeovers and startups, and ensuring all work is properly documented and validated with engineering. Additional responsibilities include ordering parts, coordinating with vendors, and supporting outsourced service teams. **Responsibilities** + Maintain and repair production equipment and facility systems. + Perform mechanical and electrical troubleshooting. + Support preventive maintenance programs. + Assist with production line changeovers and startups. + Document and validate work with engineering. + Order parts and coordinate with vendors. + Support outsourced service teams. **Essential Skills** + Industrial Maintenance experience of 5+ years in a manufacturing or food processing environment. + Electrical Processing experience of 2+ years, including troubleshooting 3-phase power systems, reading and interpreting electrical schematics, and working with motors, VFDs, and control panels. + Mechanical Repair experience of 5 years with conveyor systems, gearboxes, bearings, and line changeovers. + Preventive Maintenance experience of 5 years, including hydraulics and pneumatics, reading pneumatic schematics, and troubleshooting valves, cylinders, and air systems. **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + Experience in Food Manufacturing / GMP for 1+ year. + TIG Welding experience for 1+ year, including light welding on stainless steel components for equipment repair or fabrication. + Fabrication experience for 1+ year, including cutting, grinding, and assembling custom brackets or machine parts. + Basic PLC Troubleshooting experience for 1+ year, identifying and resetting PLC faults (no programming required). + Spanish Language Skills for communicating with bilingual team members and vendors. **Why Work Here?** Join a company with over 125 years of history and a strong union presence providing excellent job security and representation. Enjoy exceptional benefits including health, dental, medical, and pension plans, along with quarterly bonuses and consistent contract renewals. Be part of a small, tight-knit maintenance team where you will be the third technician, contributing to a hands-on, high-impact role with real responsibility. Work in a GMP-compliant facility equipped with modern equipment. **Work Environment** The work environment is a GMP-regulated facility with 3-4 production lines, including herring, smoked salmon, fresh salmon, and ready-to-eat food lines. You will be part of a two-person maintenance team, becoming the third member. There may be a fishy smell, but wearing a mask is permissible due to GMP regulations. The shift runs from 6:00 AM to 3:30 PM. **Job Type & Location** This is a Permanent position based out of Chicago, Illinois. **Pay and Benefits** The pay range for this position is $60000.00 - $79000.00/yr. Excellent benefits: health, dental, medical, and pension **Workplace Type** This is a fully onsite position in Chicago,IL. **Application Deadline** This position is anticipated to close on Jun 16, 2025. **About Aerotek:** We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow. Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.