Job Title

Maintenance Front End/Kitchen Equipment Technician

Job Description Summary

Kitchen equipment technicians are responsible for maintaining, modifying, troubleshooting, and repairing a large inventory of electric and gas commercial kitchen equipment and appliances.
The kitchen equipment technician’s job description entails fielding, prioritizing, and carrying out service support requests by in-person inspections and from an online work order system.

Job Description

Kitchen equipment technicians are responsible for maintaining, modifying, troubleshooting, and repairing a large inventory of electric and gas commercial kitchen equipment and appliances.

The kitchen equipment technician’s job description entails fielding, prioritizing, and carrying out service support requests by in-person inspections and from an online work order system.

He/she performs end-user interactions frequently with dinning-staff requiring advice on equipment operation or status.

His/her role also involves assisting in major repairs and upgrades and participating in large-scale maintenance duties as part of the dinning team.

The kitchen equipment technician’s responsibilities also include carrying out the documentation of procedures, processes, and best practices in on-plan sets and end-user manuals, or modifying what has previously been documented.

He/she is also responsible for performing preventative maintenance as well as scheduled predictive maintenance checks following manufacturers’ recommendation or/and as assigned.

The technician also provides on-site support during special events as well as during off hours, holidays, and weekends.

His/her work description also entails swiftly correcting unsafe conditions in workplaces and bringing to the supervisor’s attention any non-correctable condition noticed.

It also involves installing new equipment, repairing leaks, maintaining settings on wiring controls, and replacing defective or old parts.

It is also the kitchen technician’s duty to maintain inventory, as well as to ensure that tools and equipment are properly maintained.

Kitchen Equipment Technician Job Description

• Perform repairs and maintenance duties on a wide variety of kitchen and refrigeration equipment such as walk-in freezers, industrial-sized steam cookers, refrigerators, ice machines, washers, ovens, dryers, dishwashers, and water coolers.
• Carry out periodic inspection, cleaning, and equipment servicing.
• Log into the work order management system to find, accept, and complete the work requests.
• Carry out installation of new equipment; perform repairs on leaks; ensure settings o wiring controls; change equipment parts that have become old or defective.
• Collaborate with other maintenance workers, company’s officials, and staff to effectively provide solutions to maintenance problems.
• Attend quickly to emergency call on equipment repair issues, as well as to after work hour calls.
• Perform other duties the supervisor may assign.

Requirements – Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities – for Kitchen Equipment Technician Role

• Profound knowledge of how various types of kitchen and refrigeration equipment work
• Outstanding soldering and blazing skills, applying oxygen/propane
• Strong ability to read and comprehend wiring diagrams, and to follow manuals on operation and installation to successful complete tasks.
• Strong ability to apply various types of equipment safely and efficiently, and to maintain and service them.
• Exceptional ability to work independently without direct supervision and take responsibility for the repair of assigned equipment.
• Strong ability to prioritize assigned tasks for increased job delivery.
• Exceptional ability to properly investigate problems with food equipment, discover the issue, and correct it.
• Ability to work in a team setting with other maintenance workers, and with staff and members of the public.
• Strong ability to quickly understand and carry out both written and oral instructions effectively.
• Strong keyboarding and basic computer skills
• Possess refrigerant transition and recovery certification.
• Repair and maintenance experience in the commercial kitchen or dinning service field
• Strong knowledge of plumbing repair and installation practice and procedure
• Strong knowledge of basic electrical practice, theory, and safety
• Strong knowledge of the fundamental of commercial refrigeration practice and theory.
• Performs additional job duties as requested.

Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidate’s experience and qualifications.

The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.

The compensation for the position is: $25.50 - $30.00

C&W Services is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position at C&W Services, please call the ADA line at 1-888-365-5406 or email Accommodations@cushwake.com. Please refer to the job title and job location when you contact us.

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