Mechanic - Packaging - 3rd shift

At Lactalis USA, we believe in promoting from within and giving our employees meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Whether you’re just starting out or bringing years of experience, we’ll provide the tools and support you need to succeed.

Lactalis is the world leader in dairy—a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Every day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together every day.

In the US, we offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with sour cream and a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We’re building a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us make an impact.

From your PASSION to ours

Lactalis USA, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Packaging Mechanic in Buffalo, New York.

Summary: Responsible for a variety of tasks that require knowledge and/or ability to learn packaging equipment and assist when needed on major utility systems. Ability to progress and desire to learn are of high importance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

1. Maintains machines with respect to bearings, assembly, disassembly, power transmission, rigging, and lubrication.

2. Effectively completes bench work utilizing common hand tools.

3. Can work effectively with an upper-class mechanic to work on electrical systems and components.

4. Learns to do rudimentary pipefitting of water, steam, and air lines with steel, plastic, and copper pipe materials.

5. Performs routing preventative maintenance on designated equipment. Will assist upper class mechanic on major overhauls. Learn to identify potential issues and reports these to the necessary persons.

6. Trains and learns most shop equipment and machinery.

7. Works with upper classification mechanic on job layouts and ordering of materials necessary to complete job.

8. Assists in troubleshooting and diagnosing most machine failures.

9. Prepares for work daily with complete set of hand tools as mandated by the supervisor’s list.