Maintenance Lead, Maintenance Technician ​/ Mechanic, Machine Operator

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Maintenance Lead Job Description

We are seeking a skilled Maintenance Lead who understands, follows, and enforces all established safety, health, quality, GMP, and company policies, procedures, and recognized practices. This role requires performing highly diversified duties to install and maintain production machines and plant facility equipment, including setting up and troubleshooting packaging machines and lines.

• Perform highly diversified duties to install and maintain production machines and the plant facility’s 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 of production equipment 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.

• Troubleshooting experience.
• Ability to perform preventive maintenance on equipment.
• Experience and familiarity with motors, pneumatic, hydraulics, conveyors, fillers, and scaling systems.
• Experience with single and three-phase equipment and voltages up to 480.
• Proficiency in using basic electrical testing equipment such as volt meters, amp meters, and ohm meters.
• VFD experience.

• Welding experience.
• Ability to understand PLCs from different brands.
• Experience with Bosch vertical bagger equipment.

Join a company that offers a clean and spacious work environment that smells like a coffee and bakery shop. Enjoy working in a GMP environment with mostly gravity-fed high-speed packaging equipment. Our facility is well-lit, and there is a potential for expansion. Experience the satisfaction of contributing to a team packaging dry goods, such as powders.

This position operates on the 3rd Shift from 10pm to 6:30am, with plenty of opportunities for overtime. The environment is very clean, resembling a coffee and bakery shop, with a GMP setting. You will work with gravity-fed high-speed packaging equipment in a well-lit, spacious area. The facility packages mostly dry goods and is looking to expand, possibly adding on to the current building.

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

The pay range for this position is $30.00 - $45.00/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)

This is a fully onsite position in Elgin, IL.

This position is anticipated to close on Feb 24, 2026.

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.