**Job Title: Maintenance Technician** **Job Description** We are seeking a dedicated Maintenance Technician to ensure the smooth operation and maintenance of production machines and plant facility equipment. This role requires adherence to established safety, health, quality GMP, and company policies and procedures. The position involves performing diversified duties to install, maintain, and troubleshoot production and packaging machinery. **Responsibilities** + 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. + Perform scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service. + Conduct regular preventive maintenance on machines, equipment, and plant facilities. + Execute 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 Skills** + Experience in troubleshooting and performing preventive maintenance on equipment. + Familiarity with motors, pneumatic, hydraulics, conveyors, fillers, and scaling systems. + Experience with single and three-phase equipment and voltages up to 480. + Experience with basic electrical testing equipment such as volt meters, amp meters, and ohm meters. + VFD experience. **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + Welding experience. + Ability to understand PLCs, including different brands for new and old machinery. + Experience with mixers, blenders, and Bosch vertical bagger experience. + GMP experience and mechanically inclined. **Why Work Here?** Join a company that values safety, quality, and continuous improvement. You will be part of a clean and well-lit work environment that resembles a coffee and bakery shop. The company is expanding, offering opportunities for growth and development. **Work Environment** The work environment is very clean, resembling a coffee and bakery shop with a GMP setting. The facility predominantly uses gravity-fed high-speed packaging equipment for dry goods such as powders. It is well-lit with ample space, and there are plans for expansion. **Job Type & Location** This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Elgin, IL. **Pay and Benefits** The pay range for this position is $20.00 - $35.00/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 Mar 3, 2026. **About Aerotek:** 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. 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. 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.