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Job overview
The Maintenance Technician L1 provides maintenance and reliability services at a food production plant, focusing on preventive and corrective maintenance and asset health improvement. The role includes troubleshooting, equipment installation and adjustment, startups, and process improvement projects. The technician works with maintenance, operations, and support teams and follows safety, food safety, and quality procedures. The schedule is a 2-2-3 night shift from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.
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Full job description
Brand: Michael Foods Inc.
Categories: Operations Production
Locations: Norwalk, Iowa
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
Remote Eligible: No
Req ID: 33205
Job Description
Business Unit Overview
Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food .
Location Description
Michael Foods, Inc. located in Norwalk, Iowa is a southern suburb in the Des Moines, Iowa metropolitan area. We are known for knowing our neighbors and enjoying a great quality of life! Our location produces high quality precooked egg patties as well as various French Toast products.
Responsibilities
SHIFT:
2-2-3, Nights 6pm-6am, 14-15 days Per Month
SUMMARY :
The Maintenance Technician L1 (MTL1) provides both Maintenance and Reliability services within the plant, executing with excellence and assisting with asset health improvement efforts. The MTL1 will ensure results while partnering with the plant maintenance team personnel, plant operational team, and all other plant support teams members for success. The MTL1 focus responsibilities are executional excellence of facility preventive and corrective maintenance programs. Other duties will include technical troubleshooting, equipment installation, adjustments, startups, and process improvement projects. Candidates must be a self-starter willing to accept maintenance and process responsibility and KPI results. This position has the responsibility to comply with Safety work rules at all times as well as an obligation to reinforce Safety as a Core Value. Ensures that all policies, procedures and activities, related to Food Safety & Quality, are followed and complied with uniformly, in an effort to reduce product and process variability. This role must be available to work scheduled work times, weekends, and holidays, as necessary.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Participate with reliability and maintenance team membersto ensure personal safety, quality, delivery, and cost, are continuously being improved to achieve company objectives. Be an active member who contributes to the advancement of the MFI & ARM culture.
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Learn and execute and champion Precision Maintenance® techniques ensuring procedural compliance and that job tolerances are met
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Execute technical troubleshooting tasks working with experienced maintenance personnel
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Actively participate in maintenance training for maintenance personnel
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Actively participate in following reliability procedures for critical spares and parts
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Actively participate in implementing quality commissioning procedures for rebuilt or new equipment
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Actively participate andassistmaintenance craftsman during precision maintenance assignments
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Utilize MFI approved CMMS to manage, document, and support reliability reporting and decision making. This will be accomplished through the guidance of MFI ARM standards.
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Keep accurate and up-to-date records as required.
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Provides input for root cause analysis (RCA) and Reliability Centered Maintenance to create an environment of continuous asset reliability improvement.
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Promote, and foster Michael Foods culture, values, and principles.
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Act as a role model by demonstrating safe work behaviors.Assumes personal responsibility to insure safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
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Adheres to Quality work practices, follows GMP’s, maintains sanitary conditions and ensures that product quality is maintained. Reportsconditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety and quality.
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Always ensures required regulatory compliance.
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Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
EDUCATION AND EXPER I ENCE REQUIRED :
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High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or equivalent
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Associate's degree or two-year technical certificate, or experience which demonstrates technical aptitude preferred.
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1 year of experience as an industrial maintenance technician preferred
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Ability to read and decipher mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, and P&ID diagrams preferred
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Prior experience in SAP preferred
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Ability to interact with all levels of the organization
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
SHIFT:
2-2-3, Nights 6pm-6am, 14-15 days Per Month
SUMMARY :
The Maintenance Technician L1 (MTL1) provides both Maintenance and Reliability services within the plant, executing with excellence and assisting with asset health improvement efforts. The MTL1 will ensure results while partnering with the plant maintenance team personnel, plant operational team, and all other plant support teams members for success. The MTL1 focus responsibilities are executional excellence of facility preventive and corrective maintenance programs. Other duties will include technical troubleshooting, equipment installation, adjustments, startups, and process improvement projects. Candidates must be a self-starter willing to accept maintenance and process responsibility and KPI results. This position has the responsibility to comply with Safety work rules at all times as well as an obligation to reinforce Safety as a Core Value. Ensures that all policies, procedures and activities, related to Food Safety & Quality, are followed and complied with uniformly, in an effort to reduce product and process variability. This role must be available to work scheduled work times, weekends, and holidays, as necessary.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
-
Participate with reliability and maintenance team membersto ensure personal safety, quality, delivery, and cost, are continuously being improved to achieve company objectives. Be an active member who contributes to the advancement of the MFI & ARM culture.
-
Learn and execute and champion Precision Maintenance® techniques ensuring procedural compliance and that job tolerances are met
-
Execute technical troubleshooting tasks working with experienced maintenance personnel
-
Actively participate in maintenance training for maintenance personnel
-
Actively participate in following reliability procedures for critical spares and parts
-
Actively participate in implementing quality commissioning procedures for rebuilt or new equipment
-
Actively participate andassistmaintenance craftsman during precision maintenance assignments
-
Utilize MFI approved CMMS to manage, document, and support reliability reporting and decision making. This will be accomplished through the guidance of MFI ARM standards.
-
Keep accurate and up-to-date records as required.
-
Provides input for root cause analysis (RCA) and Reliability Centered Maintenance to create an environment of continuous asset reliability improvement.
-
Promote, and foster Michael Foods culture, values, and principles.
-
Act as a role model by demonstrating safe work behaviors.Assumes personal responsibility to insure safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
-
Adheres to Quality work practices, follows GMP’s, maintains sanitary conditions and ensures that product quality is maintained. Reportsconditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety and quality.
-
Always ensures required regulatory compliance.
-
Perform other duties as assigned
EDUCATION AND EXPER I ENCE REQUIRED :
-
High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or equivalent
-
Associate's degree or two-year technical certificate, or experience which demonstrates technical aptitude preferred.
-
1 year of experience as an industrial maintenance technician preferred
-
Ability to read and decipher mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, and P&ID diagrams preferred
-
Prior experience in SAP preferred
-
Ability to interact with all levels of the organization
-
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
How this job compares
Set against the 6,928 open Maintenance Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$58–78K/yr304 salary ranges
- Iowa median$24–30/hr59 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 117 open Maintenance Technician jobs in Iowa and 6,928 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Iowa
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Maintenance Technician postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 3,796 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 3,192 of the 6,928 open Maintenance Technician jobs (46%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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