Job Title: Maintenance Technician

Job Description

The Maintenance Technician role requires a proactive professional who understands, follows, and enforces all established safety health, quality GMP, and company policies, procedures, and recognized practices. You will perform a variety of tasks to install and maintain production machines and the plant facility's equipment, ensuring smooth operations and quality standards.

ResponsibilitiesPerform highly diversified duties to install and maintain production machines and plant facility equipment.Set up and troubleshoot packaging machines and lines.Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test and make adjustments.Observe machine operations to ensure quality and conformity of filled or packaged products to standards.Regulate machine flow or speed.Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment during operation and perform scheduled maintenance repairs during machine service.Perform regular preventive maintenance on machines, equipment, and plant facilities.Utilize mechanic skills including mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic troubleshooting and repair of production machines.Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.Essential SkillsExperience in hydraulics, blueprint reading, preventive maintenance, and schematic interpretation.Proficiency in PLC troubleshooting, motors, fabrication, pneumatics, and general troubleshooting.Experience in GMP practices.Mechanically inclined with knowledge of mixers, blenders, and PLCs.A minimum of 3 years in the foods, packaging, printing, powder, pharma, or similar industry.Ability to perform preventive maintenance on equipment.Experience with motors, pneumatic, hydraulics, conveyors, fillers, and scaling systems.Proficiency in working with single and three-phase equipment with voltages up to 480.Experience with basic electrical testing equipment such as volt meter, amp meter, and ohm meter.Additional Skills & QualificationsWelding experience is preferred.Ability to understand PLCs, including hooking up a laptop to different brands of PLCs.Experience with Bosch vertical bagger equipment is advantageous.Why Work Here?

Join a team at an award-winning, best-in-class service provider known for its turn-on-a-dime flexibility and sophisticated systems. The company offers a dynamic environment where innovation and results are highly valued, allowing talented individuals to thrive.

Work Environment

The work environment is clean and smells like a coffee and bakery shop, offering a GMP atmosphere. The facility is well-lit, spacious, and primarily features gravity-fed high-speed packaging equipment for dry goods such as powders. There are opportunities for growth, with potential expansions to the current building. Openings are available on the 2nd shift from 2:00pm to 10:30pm and the 3rd shift from 10:00pm to 6:30am, including overtime after shifts and major projects on weekends.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Elgin, Illinois.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $30.00 - $40.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Elgin,IL.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Jul 25, 2025.

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\n About Aerotek:\n\n

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

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Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

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The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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