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Sysco

Supplies food and kitchen goods to restaurants

Material Handling Equipment Technician II

Equipment MaintenanceConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLouisville, KY, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Four years in a material handling equipment maintenance position, or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.
  • A high school diploma or general education degree (GED) is required; two years of tech school or equivalent is preferred.
  • A valid state driver's license and proof of liability coverage meeting company standards are required.
  • Complete a Sysco-approved defensive driving program.
  • Obtain a Powered Industrial Equipment Certification from Sysco within three months.
  • Obtain an eight-hour material handling equipment maintenance technician certificate from a material handling equipment manufacturer, such as Crown, Raymond, or Hyster.
  • Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures or governmental regulations.
  • Ability to perform arithmetic operations using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
  • Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
  • Ability to work non-traditional hours, including evenings, nights, weekends, holidays, and on-call shifts.
  • Ability to occasionally travel to other operating companies or the corporate office for business needs such as training or business continuation.
  • Ability to work in conditions that may involve wet, hot, extreme cold, or humid environments, moving mechanical parts, confined spaces, elevated areas, fumes, or airborne particles.
  • Ability to meet the role's physical demands, including frequent standing, walking, sitting, handling objects, reaching, climbing or balancing, and occasional stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling.

Responsibilities

  • Assist a Material Handling Equipment Technician III with maintenance activities for material handling equipment and industrial batteries.
  • Demonstrate understanding of and adherence to work safety policies, procedures, and governing requirements.
  • Use knowledge of low-voltage alternating-current and direct-current controls and electrical systems.
  • Complete small electrical repairs and welding projects as needed.
  • Maintain powered material handling equipment, including performing preventive maintenance, checking, draining, and filling oil levels, checking, adjusting, or replacing belts and chains, troubleshooting electrical control issues, replacing motors and controls, completing safety checks, and following manufacturer preventive-maintenance recommendations.
  • Apply basic knowledge of hydraulic systems, schematics, and components; alternating-current and direct-current electrical systems and schematics; drive motors; power amplifiers; and electrical controls, including programmable logic controller systems.
  • Apply basic knowledge of mechanical systems, including transmissions, drive units, differentials, braking systems, telescopic masts, reach mechanisms, steering systems, and suspension systems.
  • Complete special projects associated with buildings or grounds as requested, including moving furniture or fixtures, changing lights or light bulbs, light carpentry, painting, light plumbing, and repairing minor electrical devices.
  • Assist battery technicians with battery charger repairs, material handling equipment battery changes, repairing battery and charger plugs and tips, watering and washing batteries, cleaning up acid spills, cleaning battery racks and battery areas, and setting equalizing charges on batteries.
  • Participate in the departmental on-call program as designated.
  • Log time and materials into the computerized maintenance management system daily using work orders, preventive maintenance records, and similar entries.
  • Clean maintenance and work areas daily and maintain tools and equipment in clean, safe, working order.
  • Follow safety requirements and wear the personal protective equipment required for the job.
  • Respond to emergency situations to help ensure employee and facility safety.
  • Promote overall safety in the department and comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and other local, state, and federal regulations.
  • Follow organizational and Facilities Department policies and procedures, including requirements for attire, grooming, and attendance.
  • Interact effectively, build relationships, and cooperate with others.

Desired Qualifications

  • Two years of tech school or equivalent is preferred.

About the Company

Sysco

Supplies food and kitchen goods to restaurants

Sysco buys, stores and delivers food, kitchen supplies and equipment to restaurants, hospitals, schools, hotels and other businesses that cook away from home. Alongside national brands, it sells its own Sysco Brand line of foods and supplies, which fills a large share of the cases it ships. Its biggest product groups are fresh and frozen meats, canned and dry goods, and frozen produce and baked goods. Customers order through Sysco sales representatives or online, and Sysco delivers from distribution centers across North America and Europe, earning money on the difference between what it pays suppliers and what customers pay for delivered goods. Sysco was founded in 1969, began public operations in 1970 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founded
1969

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