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Instrumentation and Electrical (I&E) Technician
Available Shifts:
1A: Sundays – Tuesdays (Rotating Wednesdays) / 6:00AM – 6:30PM
1B: Thursdays – Saturdays (Rotating Wednesdays) / 6:00AM – 6:30PM
2A: Sundays – Tuesdays (Rotating Wednesdays) / 6:00PM – 6:30AM
2B: Thursdays – Saturdays (Rotating Wednesdays) / 6:00PM – 6:30AM
JOB SUMMARY
The I&E Technician – Regulatory Systems is responsible for maintaining, calibrating, verifying, troubleshooting compliance-critical inspection, coding, and monitoring systems in a regulated food manufacturing environment.
This role ensures that all regulatory systems operate within validated parameters to meet food safety, accuracy, traceability, and audit requirements. The technician serves as a key technical owner that directly impacts product integrity and regulatory compliance.
VISION & CODE VERIFICATION SYSTEM
Maintain and troubleshoot vision inspection systems used to:
- Verify correct label application
- Validate UV 2D code readability and accuracy
- Perform routine verification checks to ensure:
- Code contrast, placement, and readability meet specification
- Label-to-product validation is functioning correctly
- Support changeovers and product recipe validation
- Document verification results for audit traceability
- Support QA during internal and external audits
Maintain and troubleshoot industrial printers used for:
- UV 2D code printing
- Date coding
- Lot traceability
- Product information labeling
- Perform print quality verification checks
- Calibrate print timing, placement, and communication with line controls
- Manage preventative maintenance schedules
- Validate printer performance after maintenance or repairs
- Experience with Videojet and/or Markem-Imaje printers is highly valued
- Perform scheduled calibrations and verification testing
- Validate sensitivity using certified test standards
- Troubleshoot detection faults and reject system issues
- Ensure reject mechanisms function reliably
- Maintain complete calibration and verification documentation
- Support regulatory inspections and audit readiness Experience with Loma X-ray systems is preferred.
- Perform scale calibration and verification per regulatory schedule
- Ensure compliance with weights and measures standards
- Troubleshoot load cells, signal conditioning, and drift
- Maintain audit-ready documentation
- Support validation after mechanical or electrical repairs
- Maintain electronic or chart-based temperature monitoring systems
- Calibrate and verify chart recorders and data logging systems
- Validate alarm and notification functionality
- Ensure proper data retention and regulatory compliance
- Perform RTD calibration and verification
- Validate temperature accuracy using certified reference standards
- Troubleshoot sensor drift, wiring issues, and signal inconsistencies
- Support validation of critical control points (CCPs)
- Calibrate and verify conductivity probes used for:
- CIP validation
- Chemical additive verification
- Troubleshoot probe fouling, scaling, and signal drift
- Maintain regulatory documentation and calibration records
- Maintain calibration and verification records within CMMS or regulatory systems
- Ensure systems remain within validated control limits
- Support internal, customer, and regulatory audits
- Participate in root cause investigations involving compliance systems
- Assist in developing or updating SOPs related to inspection and validation systems
- 2-5 Years of Instrumentation and Electrical experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience, preferred
- Instrumentations degree or Industrial Maintenance certifications, preferred
- Experience maintaining or troubleshooting industrial electrical, instrumentation, or inspection systems
- Working knowledge of calibration principles and verification procedures
- Ability to read electrical schematics and technical documentation
- Familiarity with industrial control systems (24VDC, 120VAC)
- Strong troubleshooting skills in regulated production environments
- Experience in food manufacturing or similar regulated industries is highly preferred
- Experience with Videojet printers, Markem-Imaje printers, Loma X-ray systems, vision systems, checkweighers, or
- High attention to detail
- Strong documentation discipline
- Audit readiness mindset
- Technical ownership of compliance-critical systems
- Cross-functional collaboration with QA, Production, and Engineering
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced production environment
- Model and support Kettle’s Core Values and safety culture
- Create a culture of accountability & performance
- Drive a focus on quality and continuous improvement
- Plan work, track results and resolve variances
LEVEL OF RESPONSIBILITY
- Works with little supervision, but work is reviewed. Exercises discretion within areas of responsibility.
- Position has little to no contact with customers.
- Decisions or actions may have a moderate impact on other departments and/or external relationships of the organization. Errors are usually detected after fact and may result in moderate interruption and delays in work output.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
Kettle Cuisine complies with all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state disability laws. This means we will not discriminate against qualified individuals with a disability in any phase of the employment relationship including application for employment, hiring, promotions and/or advancement opportunities, termination, compensation, training and any other conditions or privileges of employment.
CORE VALUES
Kettle Cuisine takes the utmost pride in its people, products and reputation. Each employee is expected to understand and live our Core Values every day.
- Honor Food – We create and produce the best tasting, safest, all-natural recipes that strive for perfection in every batch, from bench to kettle
- Honor Each Other – We seek to develop trusting, respectful and mutually rewarding relationships with all our team members and business partners
- Honor Development – We recognize and nurture each other’s talents, strengths and interests in order to further strengthen and grow our team
- Honor Innovation – We continually strive for creative and sustainable ways to achieve excellence
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