Regional Industrial Maintenance Technician

Position: Regional Industrial Maintenance Technician - Warehouse Location: Milwaukee, WI Schedule: Monday - Friday, Business Hours Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, 401k (4% Match), PTO, Holidays Midwest Refrigerated Services is a full-service 3PL company providing refrigerated logistics services for the food industry. Based in Milwaukee, WI, we operate the largest fresh 48 state LTL consolidation pool with more than 100+ trucks, and offer multiple sites with cooler, and air-conditioned storage, distribution, and cross-docking services. We operate refrigerated and non-refrigerated warehouses for storage needs but also Value-Added Services such as specialty packing, kitting, and fulfillment needs. We work with some of the household names that your family puts on the dinner table every night. It’s an important job, one that makes a difference in your community. This is the first step in launching your career with a family-run company that cares about you, your family, and your success. We encourage our employees to learn and grow with us, while enjoying the friendly culture and great benefits that come with the MRS experience. General Position Overview: The RMT is the Facilities Manager’s regional field leader and the first line of technical and operational support for assigned sites. This position owns day to day regional maintenance execution, directs and develops Site Maintenance Technicians, provides vacancy coverage, leads onboarding, resolves complex repairs, coordinates vendors, and ensures preventive maintenance and work order standards are met. The RMT is expected to manage routine regional maintenance independently and escalate only significant safety, compliance, operational, financial, or capital issues. At Midwest Refrigerated Services, we are driven by our Midwest Values of: M odesty I ntegrity D ependability W ork Ethic E fficiency S afety T rust It is expected that all employees exemplify these values. General Accountabilities include: Regional ownership: Serve as the first line leader and technical escalation point for all assigned sites. Resolve routine issues independently and elevate matters only when they involve significant safety, food safety, compliance, downtime, cost, legal exposure, or capital approval. Technician direction: Be aware of daily and weekly priorities for assigned SMTs, verify workload coverage, review attendance and schedules, monitor regional maintenance follow up, and provide timely coaching and documented performance feedback. Vacancy coverage: Provide hands on coverage at sites without an SMT. Domicile at the open site when needed and remain through onboarding until the new technician demonstrates required competency and can independently manage the site. Hiring and onboarding: Involved in onboarding, technical training, practical skill verification, and continued development of SMTs. Participate in interviews for regional maintenance candidates. Off hours support: Participate in the rotating after hours and weekend support schedule, own first response and triage, coordinate the appropriate site or vendor response, and escalate emergencies when necessary. Productivity accountability: Review scheduled hours against work performed and ensure each technician’s time is fully and accurately accounted for. Address unexplained time, poor planning, or incomplete documentation promptly. Maintenance Management Software accuracy: Audit work orders for accurate comments, labor, parts, purchases, failure details, asset links, status, and completion notes. Ensure all costs and time are charged to the correct work order and asset. Preventive maintenance: Ensure PMs are completed on time and to standard, verify findings create corrective work, audit PM quality, and recommend improvements to tasks, frequencies, job plans, and asset records. Technical escalation: Diagnose complex failures using sound critical thinking and root cause analysis. Coach the site technician through troubles…

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