The Mrs. Fields Gifting, Salt Lake City, UT facility is looking for a Maintenance Technician to join our team. This position includes performing routing maintenance and repair of mechanical and manufacturing machinery and parts of the facility.

Position Summary:

The Maintenance Technician is responsible for performing routine mechanical and electrical maintenance and repair of manufacturing machinery with TPM methodology, and various repairs of the facility.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct equipment management, preventative, and predictive maintenance
• Ability to use a wide variety of hand tools, power tools, and measuring devices
• Change filters, replace belts, clean condenser, and lubricate components
• Examines machines to diagnose trouble, dismantles machines, replaces defective parts, reassembles machines and makes necessary adjustments to ensure efficient operation
• Inspect and test equipment
• Assist in remodeling projects and major overhauls of facilities and mechanical equipment
• Understand and follow plant safety rules including safe lifting practices and safe machine operation.
• Collaborates well with operators and floor leadership

Other duties as assigned

Core Competencies:

• Basic knowledge of mechanical principles, electrical systems, and pneumatics
• Knowledge of mechanical/electrical systems using schematics and technical drawings
• Good written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to communicate with employees of all levels of organization
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office: Outlook, Excel, and Word
• Basic knowledge of plumbing and copper soldering
• Some MIG welding experience is preferred
• 5S oriented
• Lock out tag out policy familiarity

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 2 years of manufacturing maintenance experience
• Food manufacturing and GMP experience, preferred.
• Must be able to provide proof of eligibility to work in the U.S.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job Environment and Conditions:

Working conditions are indoors in environmentally controlled conditions. Must be able to withstand temperatures below zero degrees for moderate periods of time.

physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. This position requires a lot of walking and standing. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time.

About us

Famous Brands International is an omnichannel branded food company that owns and manages two category-defining, iconic brands: Mrs. Fields and TCBY (The Country’s Best Yogurt). The Company markets and distributes its products such as cookies, frozen yogurt, brownies, berries and cakes, through its franchising, gifting, and licensing business segments. The Company’s gifting segment markets and distributes products through e-commerce, catalogs, call center and various retail channels. Additionally, the Company licenses the use of its trademarks, logos and recipes for distribution of Mrs. Fields and TCBY branded products through various retail channels. Serving millions of loyal customers around the world, Famous Brands maintains a presence in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Morocco, Panama, Taiwan and the Bahamas with over 500 franchised locations. The Company is currently leveraging the category leading brand awareness of its iconic brands to drive sales across its omnichannel platform through an exciting product driven growth strategy. Famous Brands is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.