Job Title: Maintenance Technician

Job Description

The Maintenance Technician plays a critical role in maintaining the efficiency and safety of production machinery and plant facilities. This position requires a strong commitment to upholding established safety, health, and quality standards, as well as company policies and procedures. The role involves performing diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, and maintain production machines, ensuring high-quality output and adherence to industry standards.

ResponsibilitiesUnderstand, follow, and enforce all established safety, health, quality, GMP, and company policies and procedures.Perform 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.Apply mechanical 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 Skills3+ years of experience in foods, packaging, printing, powder, pharma, or similar industries.Proficiency in performing preventive maintenance on equipment.Experience with motors, pneumatic, hydraulics, conveyors, fillers, and scaling systems.Knowledge of single and three-phase equipment and experience with voltages up to 480.Familiarity with basic electrical testing equipment such as volt meters, amp meters, and ohm meters.Additional Skills & QualificationsWelding experience.Ability to understand and work with PLCs.Experience with different brands of PLCs.Proficiency with Bosch vertical bagger systems.Why Work Here?

Join a company with a stellar reputation for flexibility and sophisticated systems. Enjoy a work environment that is clean and smells like a coffee and bakery shop. The company is an award-winning service provider known for its innovative approach and industry leadership. Employees benefit from a positive company culture and opportunities for growth as the facility expands.

Work Environment

The work environment is very clean and well-lit, reminiscent of a coffee and bakery shop. The GMP environment features gravity-fed high-speed packaging equipment, primarily handling dry goods like powders. The facility offers ample space with plans for expansion. There are openings on the 2nd shift from 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm and the 3rd shift from 10:00 pm to 6:30 am, with overtime available after shifts and major projects scheduled on weekends.

Job Type & Location

This position is 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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