Packaging Automation Reliability Technician

Job Description

Job Description

Do these challenges sound like you?

• Keeping packaging and processing lines running through smart, proactive maintenance?
• Finding the root cause in a tangle of symptoms—whether the culprit is a PLC routine, a servo fault, or a worn bearing?
• Balancing urgent fixes with preventive work, all while documenting precisely?

Your impact

In this role, you protect throughput and safety by repairing, optimizing, and documenting work on electromechanical systems across the facility.

You will

• Install, repair, rebuild, and maintain machinery in production, packaging, and across plant areas.
• Troubleshoot and correct equipment malfunctions to minimize downtime and maintain productivity.
• Diagnose issues with controls, including PLCs, VFDs, servos, robotics, and other programmable devices.
• Overhaul machines and components—dismantle, inspect, machine, and replace parts as needed.
• Perform precision mechanical work: file and align bearings, spindles, and shafts; adjust feed and limit mechanisms, gibs, and ways.
• Assist with installation and relocation of equipment: dismantling, erecting, leveling, fitting, aligning.
• Execute preventive maintenance (including vendor-supported PMs) on production and related equipment.
• Keep maintenance logs/files accurate and up to date.
• Support building/facility upkeep and general maintenance.
• Maintain housekeeping standards and follow all safety procedures and requirements.
• Champion company policies—especially those tied to people safety and food safety.

What makes you a great fit

• Effective oral and written communication across teams and shifts.
• Proven mechanical aptitude with solid mechanical reasoning and math skills; able to interpret technical manuals, operating procedures, and machine prints.
• Comfort tackling non-standard problems with sound judgment.
• Highly organized with strong accuracy under deadline pressure.

Background we value

• Associate degree or technical certification—or willingness to pursue education in a mechanical field.
• 1–3 years of mechanical experience (or equivalent blend of education and experience). Processing/packaging equipment in food manufacturing is a plus.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills; database and recordkeeping experience are a plus.
• Bonus: familiarity with welding, plumbing, and measurement equipment.

Physical requirements and environment

• Stand and work with hands on tools and controls regularly.
• Occasional walking, sitting, overhead reaching, climbing/balancing, and stooping/kneeling/crouching/crawling.
• Frequently lift/move up to 10 lbs; occasionally up to 75 lbs.
• Exposure to high-voltage systems and large moving machinery.
• Continuous situational awareness around active equipment.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT

Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions of the Electro-Mechanical Technician position.