Student Veterans of America Jobs

Welcome to SVA’s jobs portal, your one-stop shop for finding the most up to date source of employment opportunities. We have partnered with the National Labor Exchange to provide you this information. You may be looking for part-time employment to supplement your income while you are in school. You might be looking for an internship to add experience to your resume. And you may be completing your training ready to start a new career. This site has all of those types of jobs.

Here are a few things you should know:
  • This site is mobile friendly. You do not need a log-in or password to access information.
  • Jobs on this site are original and unduplicated and come from three sources: the Federal government, state workforce agency job banks, and corporate career websites. All jobs are vetted to ensure there are no scams, training schemes, or phishing.
  • The site is refreshed daily to remove out-of-date content.
  • The newest jobs are listed first, so use the search features to match your interests. You can look for jobs in a specific geographical location, by title or keyword, or you can use the military crosswalk. You may want to do something different from your military career, but you undoubtedly have skills from that occupation that match to a civilian job.

Job Information

Cargill Maintenance Specialist in Valdosta, Georgia

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s animal nutrition and health business, where we improve lives through better nutrition. Our team researches, innovates and creates solutions that deliver healthy results for our customers.

Job Type: Full Time

Shift(s) Available: 1st

Benefits information:

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug Insurance

  • Health and Wellness Incentives

  • Paid Vacation and Holidays

  • 401(k) with Cargill matching contributions

  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

  • Short-Term Disability and Life Insurance

  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

  • Tuition Reimbursement

  • Employee Discounts

Principal Accountabilities:

  • Execute specific equipment maintenance for each asset involved with packaging and palletizing processes

  • Maintain the mechanical and electrical integrity of new installations and existing systems

  • Implement, monitor, and maintain best practices to improve operational effectiveness through continuous improvement and reliability excellence methods and tools

  • Monitor capitalized repair and replacement projects, mitigate risk issues, and removes barriers to ensure completion of milestones within budget

  • Monitor and maintain best practices to improve operational effectiveness through continuous improvement and reliability excellence methods and tools

  • Partner with vendors and handle contracts related to asset improvements and new asset project activities

  • Ensure the ongoing mechanical, electrical and structural integrity of plant equipment

  • Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff

  • Develop and implement reliability improvement plans to include Operator care

  • Facilitate cause analysis based on established thresholds

  • Understanding and adhering to all safety rules and regulations

  • Maintaining a safe and clean work environment

  • Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

  • Eligible to work in the United States without visa sponsorship

  • Must be 18 years or older

  • Ability to perform physical job duties which may include bending, lifting up to 50lbs, kneeling, climbing, crawling, and twisting, with or without reasonable accommodation

  • Ability to work in varied indoor and outdoor conditions which may include heat, cold, dust, loud noise, etc., with the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) including a respirator

  • Ability to work in elevated areas (4 feet and above)

  • Ability to understand and communicate in English (verbal/written)

  • Ability to work in confined spaces

  • Proficient with Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook)

  • Ability to work overtime including holidays, nights, weekends, or different shifts with advance notice

  • Basic experience with maintenance trades

  • Minimum of two years of experience with industrial electrical knowledge and any mechanical maintenance trade

  • Bachelor degree, Trade school certification or degree in an electrical and or mechanical field, or relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience performing maintenance trades such as welding, pipefitting, fabrication, rigging systems, gearbox and bearings, lubrication, pump and piping systems, or hydraulics and pneumatics

  • Experience working with control voltages, and/or PID loop controls, and/or 120/277/480v

  • Experience with safe work practices, such as Pre-Job Hazard Analysis (PJHA), confined spaces, job task permitting, etc.

  • Experience troubleshooting programming technologies, such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) and Computer based HMI (Human Machine Interface)

  • Experience in cause analysis facilitation

Considered candidates will receive a phone call from a (952) area code. Please note that this position does not include relocation reimbursement.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

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