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About this Maintenance SME, Nights - Bakery Plant role at Conagra Brands

Conagra Brands · Onsite · Indianapolis, Indiana
Shift: 3:00 PM-12:00 PM

Hourly Rate: $44.41 an hour + $0.50 shift differential

Do You Have a Taste for Something Big?

As a Maintenance Subject Matter Expert (SME), you will support the continuous improvement of mechanical equipment and processes at our Indianapolis Bakery plant. You will use your technical expertise to coach maintenance employees, troubleshoot equipment, support improvement initiatives, and help keep plant equipment operating effectively.

You will need knowledge of plant equipment, department requirements, GMPs, FDA and OSHA requirements, safety, quality, and maintenance practices. You will be recognized as an extension of management and expected to act professionally in this role.

You will report to the Maintenance Manager and work onsite at our Indianapolis Bakery plant.



A Taste of What You’ll Be Doing

  • Coaching & Training: Coach maintenance employees and serve as a mechanic-trainer, providing guidance and correcting maintenance practices when needed.
  • Continuous Improvement: Guide BDA, MPS, Root Cause Analysis, Risk Prediction, UPS, safety incidents, and other issues through completion.
  • Troubleshooting: Assist the Maintenance Manager, Production Managers, operators, and mechanics with equipment troubleshooting, responding with urgency to help keep equipment running.
  • Leading & Supporting: Prepare and lead meetings and involve management when additional support is needed.
  • Improvement Projects: Participate in continuous improvement projects and teams, including 5S, UPS, Kaizen, Breakdown Elimination, Defect Handling, and Planning/Scheduling.
  • Standards & Processes: Monitor continuous improvement systems and teach mechanics how to use them.
  • Safety & GMPs: Improve 5S, housekeeping, GMPs, tool organization, shop safety, and equipment repair practices. 

Ingredients Required for Success

  • High school diploma or GED.
  • Two-year degree in Industrial Maintenance or five years of maintenance experience.
  • Ability to work independently and lead a team.
  • Experience with mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic troubleshooting.
  • Extensive Experience troubleshooting electrical circuitry, including electrical safety circuit, working with logic controls, and process troubleshooting.
  • Experience diagnosing and correcting electrical and mechanical problems using electrical or mechanical tools, blueprints, repair manuals, and parts catalogs.
  • Ability to create parts lists and obtain pricing for parts.
  • Ability to learn plant operational equipment and processes.
  • Expertise using shop tools, including lathes, mills, precision installation tools, and predictive maintenance (PdM) tools. 

Our Environment

While performing this job, you will regularly work around moving mechanical parts and may be exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals, fumes, or airborne particles. The production environment is usually loud.

Required personal protective equipment includes safety glasses, ear plugs, a hair net, uniform, and hard hat when working in production areas. 


Work Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Schedule: Full-time, 40 hours per week
Shift: Mon-Fri 3p to 1130p

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Anticipated Close Date: December 4, 2026

Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Our Benefits

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

  • Health: Medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid life, accident and disability insurance

  • Wealth: Great pay, 401(k)/pension eligibility, financial wellness programs and stock purchase plan

  • Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups and team collaboration

  • Balance: Paid-time off and volunteer opportunities

Our Company

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.

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About Conagra Brands

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye ®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®. Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome. Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qu

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