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Overview

The Industrial Maintenance Technician position at Conagra Brands in Lincoln, Nebraska, involves supporting the production of ready-to-eat popcorn products by maintaining and repairing manufacturing and facility equipment. The role emphasizes safety, efficiency, and collaboration within a diverse team.

Responsibilities

  • Install, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair food processing, packaging, and facility equipment.
  • Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, steam, and electrical systems.
  • Diagnose equipment issues and minimize downtime.
  • Support production line startups, changeovers, and equipment modifications.
  • Calibrate and maintain instrumentation, including temperature recorders, transducers, and electronic scales.
  • Complete maintenance documentation and comply with safety, food safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.
  • Collaborate with production teams and contractors.
  • Perform welding, basic fabrication, machine shop work, and facility maintenance as needed.

Requirements

  • 1+ year of maintenance, mechanical, or technical experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment, or an associate degree in a related field.
  • Working knowledge of mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, steam, and electrical systems.
  • Ability and willingness to expand technical skills through training and education.
  • Strong commitment to workplace safety, food safety, quality standards, and compliance with uniform and personal protective equipment requirements.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Shift: 3:00 PM-11:00 PM
  • Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Incremental pay increases at 30, 60, and 90 days
  • Starting pay: $31.55/hour, reaching $33.55/hour + $1.00/hour shift differential after 90 days
  • Comprehensive benefits beginning on Day 1.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Lincoln, NE

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting sits about 36% above the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Nebraska — toward the top of a $20–$27/hr middle band drawn from 31 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 90% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Lincoln, NE

Lincoln, NE currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Nebraska as a whole we're tracking 49 other active welding openings from 38 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Lincoln, or widen the search to Nebraska.

The most active employers in Nebraska at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Valmont Industries, Inc. (5), Drake-Williams Steel (3), and Standard Iron (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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