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Overview

De Silva Brothers & Company is a family-owned ingredient blending and co-packing operation that has been in business since 1955. The Maintenance Technician role is essential for keeping packaging and blending lines operational, focusing on troubleshooting, repairs, and preventive maintenance in a food manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot, repair, and adjust packaging equipment including fillers, form-fill-seal machines, cappers, labelers, case packers, sealers, and conveyors.
  • Maintain blending and processing equipment including ribbon blenders, mixers, sifters, grinders, and dust collection systems.
  • Perform changeovers and line setups between products, jar and pouch sizes, and run formats.
  • Execute scheduled preventive maintenance and keep accurate PM records, work orders, and equipment history logs.
  • Support metal detector and checkweigher function checks, calibrations, and documentation.
  • Handle general facility upkeep including compressed air lines, plumbing, doors and docks, lighting, and minor building repairs.
  • Maintain the spare parts inventory and flag reorder needs before parts run out.
  • Follow lockout/tagout, confined space, and all plant safety procedures without exception.
  • Work clean using food-grade lubricants and ensure equipment is sanitation-ready after every job.
  • Support SQF and customer audits by keeping maintenance documentation current and audit-ready.
  • Escalate recurring failures with root-cause observations.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of maintenance experience in food, beverage, pharmaceutical, or comparable manufacturing.
  • Strong mechanical troubleshooting skills across motors, gearboxes, drives, bearings, chains, belts, pneumatics, and conveyor systems.
  • Ability to read and work from equipment manuals, schematics, and parts diagrams.
  • Basic electrical troubleshooting skills for motors, starters, sensors, and photo eyes.
  • Comfort using hand and power tools and owns a basic set of hand tools.
  • Understanding of GMP and sanitary design principles in a food environment, or willingness to learn quickly.
  • Reliable attendance and the judgment to work independently when the plant is running.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Location: Pico Rivera, CA (on-site)
  • Schedule: Full-time, day shift, Monday–Friday with occasional early start or extended hours during production peaks.
  • Reports to: Maintenance and CI Manager.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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Pay in context

At roughly $29/hr, this posting comes in about 12% below the $33/hr median for welding jobs across California, where the middle half runs $27–$41/hr across 470 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 33% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

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