Maintenance Apprentice (Connor) (Finance)

Job Description:

Job: Maintenance Apprentice Technician

Shift: Various

Location: Topeka, Kansas

Mars is looking to hire a Maintenance Apprentice Tech for our state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Topeka, Kansas! Being a Mars Associate is all about opportunity. The opportunity to do challenging, exciting work that shapes the world's best-loved brands. To work with real purpose, supported by talented, friendly people from different backgrounds. Access the tools, training, and experience you need to positively impact our business, the planet, and, most importantly, your career. Being a Mars associate is more than a job. It's the opportunity to start your day tomorrow.

As part of our overall total compensation package, Mars offers a competitive benefits package to all associates: Medical, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance, Short- & Long-Term Disability, and 401k match. Associates are also immediately eligible (based on hire date) for up to three weeks of vacation, 12 Paid Holidays per year, Sick Pay, Maternity & Parental Leave, and annual bonus earning potential, plus many other ancillary benefits not listed here.

The Maintenance Apprentice Technician (MAT) will follow a formal 2-to-4-year program to provide them with the knowledge, skills, and experience to develop into effective multi-skilled maintenance technicians. This will include a combination of technical training and in-plant experience. As a maintenance team member, the MAT will ensure safety, efficiency, operational conformance, product quality, continuous improvement, and maintenance of assets. The MAT will have a maximum of 4 years to demonstrate multi-skills technician competence or potentially be removed from the program.

Key Responsibilities:

• Learn & demonstrate mastery of Functional / Technical Skills.
• Safety Compliance
• Implement Continuous Improvements
• Equipment Maintenance and Sanitation
• Develop to become a recognized expert for maintenance, including:
• Ability to troubleshoot routine and non-routine issues and be a resource towards achieving safe, timely, cost-efficient solutions.
• Develop best practices for the area and ensure best practices are followed.
• Lead or participate in continuous improvement efforts.
• Effective shift communications. Attends and participates in maintenance issues in shift overlaps, quality reviews, and daily meetings as required.
• Performs equipment PM's as assigned.
• Ability to complete root cause failure analysis on issues involving reliability, product/packaging defects, downtime and slow time
• Effectively works and communicates with all departments (scheduling, engineering, R&D, IE, logistics, operations, etc.).

Key Skills Required:

• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and problem-solve.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal, approachability, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment.
• Demonstrated technical aptitude
• Leadership
• Self-Development, Personal Learning

Physical/Environmental Requirements:

• Standing on a concrete floor
• Wearing proper personal protective equipment (hair net, bump cap, ear plugs,safety shoes, and uniform)
• Bending, stooping, twisting, turning, standing for extended periods, reaching, climbing stairs, and lifting up to 50 lbs.
• Ability to operate a forklift

Minimum Qualifications:

• Be 18 years of age or older
• Have a High school diploma, GED or equivalent education
• 1+ years MARS experience as a Team Member / Production Operator. May substitute external industrial maintenance experience or industrial electrical / mechanical technical certificate for up to 2 years MARS experience.
• Or 1+ years MARS experience in a Production Support / Team Captain position.
• Ability to travel 5% of the time
• Demonstrated competency in computer and pc software including MS Office and email.
• Must be willing and able to work and accept varying shifts and schedules, including rotating shifts, weekends, and all shutdowns; Must be willing to work overtime.
• Ability to read/comprehend written and oral instruction in the English language.
• Successful completion of a substance screening and background check.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience as a Team Member / Production Operator.
  Or 2+ years MARS experience in a Production Support / Team Captain position.
  BOTH 1 & 2 : May substitute external industrial maintenance experience or industrial electrical / mechanical technical degree for up to 2 years MARS experience.
• Associates degree or advanced training
• Knowledge of sensory evaluations
• SAP experience
• Electricalexperience
• Mechanical experience

About Mars, Incorporated

Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world's best-loved brands: M&M's®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, UNCLE BEN'S®, MARS DRINKS and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles - Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom - inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.