Maintenance Technician

Job Description

Job Description

DEPARTMENT: Maintenance

REPORTS TO: Maintenance Supervisor

POSITION DESCRIPTION: A Machine Maintenance Technician inspects, repairs, and maintains industrial machinery to ensure peak performance, prevents downtime, and keep equipment safe in various sectors like manufacturing, energy, and food processing, handling tasks from routine lubrication and diagnostics to major component replacement and troubleshooting mechanical or electrical issues using hand/power tools and following strict safety protocols.

Essential functions:

• Preventive Maintenance: Perform regular checks, cleaning, lubrication, and calibration to prevent breakdowns.
• Troubleshooting & Repair: Diagnose issues, analyze error messages, and fix or replace broken parts (mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic).
• Installation: Set up and assemble new machinery and equipment.
• Testing: Conduct tests after repairs to ensure machines run smoothly and efficiently.
• Safety Compliance: Adhere to lockout/tagout procedures, safety guidelines, and machine specifications.
• Documentation: Record maintenance, repair, and production data.
• Work with team members as needed
• Uses lock-out tag-out procedures on all equipment.
• Works with technicians to troubleshoot problems with molding machines and implement permanent fixes/solutions
• Maintains safe and clean work environment by using all equipment and resources while maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures
• Reads and understands mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, pneumatic schematics, and PLC ladder logic
• Work with teams to help with the installation of new equipment, and implementation of plant driven continuous improvement projects
• Resolve technical problems by investigating issues, identifying solutions, and providing recommendations for corrective actions
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops
• Logs time on PMs and repairs into the shop system database

Position requirements:

• High school education preferred or equivalent work experience
• Experience in preventive maintenance, electronics and hydraulics
• 3 years’ experience working with Injection Molding Machines required
• Ability to install general equipment utilizing equipment manuals
• Ability to teach other members of dept and be on-call to assist when machines are down
• Electronic component repair skills desired, but not required
• Competent use of hand tools and electrical test devices

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Safety Responsibilities:
• Supports a culture where employees address unsafe conditions and behaviors, make suggestions for improvements, and actively participates in implementing solutions
• Identifies safety gaps and self-initiates corrective actions
• Strictly adheres to plant safety, housekeeping, and 5S efforts
• Understands, identifies, and corrects safety hazards
• Drives a culture which empowers employees to understand and embrace what they own
• Food Safety Responsibilities:
• Monitors and verifies activities to ensure that finished goods and raw materials are coming in and out of the facility meet consumer safety and quality standards.
• Complies with all company food safety and quality assurance procedures
• Reports any product or process failures that could impact food safety of manufactured products to the location’s Food Safety Team Leader and submits an appropriate incident report

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties, the employee will be working in an office environment as well as on the manufacturing plant floor. The employee is required to sit and/or stand for computer or floor responsibilities, reach with hands and arms and handle objects and other tools, stoop, squat, twist, push and pull, maintain balance, bend at the waist, kneel, walk varying distances, and climb stairs. Employees may be required to lift up to 20 pounds.

About MRP:

MRP Solutions (MRP), a plastic cap manufacturer, is a leading provider of high-quality, injection molded plastic closures, jars and packaging components used every day by millions of consumers around the globe. But we offer more than just plastic caps and lids – we deliver industry-leading packaging solutions tailored to each customer’s unique requirements, providing best-in-class product protection while ensuring consumer confidence.

MRP Solutions combines extensive packaging expertise with a consultative approach to reliably uncover customer needs. By understanding your business goals, we can tailor smarter, safer, and more flexible packaging solutions that reduce cost and increase speed to market, helping your businesses capitalize on opportunity. By constantly innovating, MRP enables our customers to grow, making us a preferred partner.

We are passionate about partnering with distributors and manufacturers who understand that plastic caps and lids are a small but important part of how people experience their brands. Together, we deliver packaging with purpose.

Our Vision :

We deliver industry-leading packaging solutions tailored to each customer’s unique requirements, providing best-in-class product protection while ensuring consumer confidence.

By constantly innovating, MRP enables our customers to grow, making us a preferred partner.

Our Values & Beliefs

• Integrity – We have the courage to act with the highest level of integrity, even when no one is watching. We do what is right 100% of the time.
• Value Creation – The sole reason a company exists is to create real long-term value for society. This starts with ensuring human safety, as value cannot be created without first protecting human life . We seek opportunities for mutual benefit with all of our stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, suppliers, and the communities in which we operate. In everything we do, our overarching goal is to deliver superior results..
• Accountability - We are accountable to each other and to our stakeholders. We say what we do and do what we say. We embrace a culture of ownership, empowering and equipping employees with the ability to own their outcomes.
• Entrepreneurial - Everyone thinks and acts like owners, employing good economic and critical thinking skills while adopting the risk profile of our shareholders. We are inquisitive, constantly seeking out opportunities to improve, actively searching for and innovating across each and every aspect of our business. We relentlessly strive to understand and profitably anticipate what our customers need and value, because if our customers do not grow, we do not grow.
• Respectful and Friendly – Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. Because everyone's perspective has value, we embrace diversity of thought, background and experiences. We are friendly and lead with a smile. What we do is important, but how we do it is what makes it impactful.
• Change - We actively seek out and embrace change wherever profitable. Because society is constantly identifying and employing new and better ways of accomplishing tasks, we must constantly innovate, reinvent and, ultimately, destroy the old ways of doing business. We actively engage in rigorous debate and embrace challenge to ensure we stay relevant and deliver superior results.
• Fulfillment – Our employees are the foundation of our success. We foster an environment enabling our employees to learn, grow and accept more accountability as they demonstrate capability. We promote more than just individual connection as community at work brings people together through common interest, objectives or experiences.

MRP Solutions is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status), national origin, age, disability, medical condition, marital or protected veteran status or any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the obligations of state and federal law, MRP Solutions will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any employee who needs a reasonable accommodation should contact Human Resources