The Role:

Join our mission to provide nutritious, affordable food for all. Be a part of a team that takes pride in making climate friendly, nutrient-dense alt-proteins from Mycelium- the muscular root structure of mushrooms. You’ll lead a team of maintenance techs and perform day to day maintenance, repair, and equipment troubleshooting including the following major tasks and responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

• Diagnose, inspect, and repair complex interrelated process machinery in a sanitary food manufacturing environment.
• Trains other non-Maintenance technical operators on basic troubleshooting activities.
• Provides preventative maintenance and repair of equipment and facilities with mechanical, pneumatic, steam, and basic electrical skills.
• Responds to equipment breakdowns and emergency repairs to maintain production equipment in a full safe working capacity.
• Ability to work in a manufacturing environment.
• Consistently follow food safety and good manufacturing practices.
• Maintains compliance with SQF standards and use of appropriate PPE and meet all EH&S requirements.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• High School degree or equivalent.
• Maintenance and Food Manufacturing Industry experience preferred.
• Highly motivated, hardworking individual who enjoy working as a team, possess a strong work ethic, attention to detail, the ability to meet deadlines, and an obsessive commitment to customer safety, service, quality, and consistency.
• Must have a strong mechanical intuition and be proficient with hand tools and repair techniques.
• Ability to work at height with proper fall protection equipment.
• Ability to prioritize and manage workload efficiently with and without assistance and oversight.
• Ability to work in wide range of environments, including range of temperatures with proper PPE and safe practices when required.
• Must have basic math and computer skills including email communication, and ability to use computer-based maintenance work order scheduling systems and reporting.
• Must be able to stand for periods of time, bend, stoop, reach, push, pull, squat, turn body and walk.
• Sufficient mobility and dexterity to safely and properly use hand and power tools.

The Work Schedule:

Meati is committed to re-imagining manufacturing and providing a schedule that allows our employees to maintain a great work-life balance while driving amazing results when on-site. In this role, you will work on a 12-hour, rotating 3x4, 4x3 schedule. The team will be comprised of 4 rotations, so that your days off are truly yours.

Compensation:

The starting wage for this role is $35.50 hourly, with opportunities to increase compensation to up to $39.50 through a level progression program. Additionally, Meati provides shift differential pay for individuals schedule to work nights (+$2 an hour), weekends (+$4 an hour), and weekend nights (+$6 an hour). In addition to the hourly wage, this position is eligible for a potential quarterly bonus and equity! Actual compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.