Senior Maintenance Technician

About the Role

The role maintains and repairs plastics manufacturing equipment used in extrusion, thermoforming and injection moulding processes. It works with a highly motivated team skilled in industrial maintenance and supports 24/7 production facilities through maintenance teams aligned to each of the four shifts. The team operates in a fast-paced environment, delivering solutions to equipment issues and maximising uptime, with collaboration and communication central to how it works.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and repair plastics manufacturing equipment used in extrusion, thermoforming and injection moulding processes.
• Perform preventative maintenance on production equipment.
• Determine through regular inspections the repair and maintenance work necessary to prevent failure of production equipment and improve reliability.
• Make repairs or modifications to production equipment using controls, drawings, electrical, general mechanics, hand tools, hydraulics, machine shop, piping systems, PLC knowledge, pneumatics, RF, troubleshooting, welding and programming.
• Deploy projects to decrease downtime and quickly respond to equipment issues to return assets to production.
• Work alongside a shift-aligned maintenance team supporting one of the production shifts.
• Collaborate and communicate within the team to deliver solutions to issues and maximise uptime in a fast-paced environment.
• Contact vendors as needed, research problems, identify potential components and order maintenance machine parts.
• Track and turn in repairable flagged parts.
• Elevate part issues to supervisor or management quickly with potential solutions if known.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED.
• Post high school Technical/Vocational school degree or education or related Military training in industrial maintenance technology and industrial electrical systems.
• Three years of industrial/manufacturing maintenance experience.
• Demonstrated strong problem-solving ability necessary to identify defects and repair industrial equipment.
• Familiarity and training with electrical, mechanical and fluid system safety, diagnostics and repair.
• Electrical safety, troubleshooting and repair experience.
• Experience with PLC control systems.
• Experience with AC electrical systems and components up to 3-phase 480-volt.
• Experience with DC electrical systems and components.
• Experience replacing components including drives, motors, pumps, heaters, switches and HMI panels.
• Experience working with basic hand tools, machine shop equipment, precision measuring instruments, digital multi-meters, cutting and welding equipment.
• Ability to read and understand documentation and drawings for mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical systems.
• Personal computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office and background using computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).
• Ability to work 12-hour shifts, including possible evenings, weekends and holidays.
• Able to lift objects up to 50lbs.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in plastics manufacturing.
• Experience working with plastic processing equipment and processes including extrusion, thermoforming, injection moulding and support equipment such as driers, loaders and transfer systems.
• Experience with Siemens and Allen Bradley PLC control systems.
• Experience and/or certification working with common Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and variable frequency drives.
• Experience and/or certification working with industrial automation and robotics (Denso and ABB preferred).
• Familiarity with reliability-based maintenance programmes and principles.
• Experience using SAP for CMMS.
• Ability to be certified to operate forklifts, man lifts and scissor lifts.

Workplace

• D2 shift: Friday, Saturday, Sunday and every other Monday, 5:30 am–5:30 pm.
• Work takes place in a 24/7 production facility.