Engineering Maintenance Mechanic

Position Summary & Description

The Engineering Maintenance Mechanic is a hands-on technical role focused on installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and optimizing production machinery at customer sites. This position combines mechanical expertise with customer collaboration, ensuring equipment operates at peak performance while supporting upgrades and continuous improvement initiatives. The role involves extensive travel with most weekends at home.

• Travel to customer locations to provide technical support, repairs, and preventive maintenance on production equipment
• Diagnose mechanical and low-voltage electrical issues, performing efficient breakdown repairs and system adjustments
• Install replacement parts, perform machine modifications, and support test runs to improve performance
• Collaborate directly with customers to recommend fixes, upgrades, and best practices
• Document service work, maintain tools and parts inventory, and ensure organized shop environments

• Strong mechanical troubleshooting and repair capability
• Working knowledge of low-voltage electrical systems and diagnostic tools (multimeter, ammeter)
• Ability to work independently while maintaining strong customer communication

• Vocational, technical, or community college coursework in mechanical or related fields (or equivalent hands‑on experience)
• Experience working with packaging or similar production machinery preferred
• Solid problem‑solving, organizational, and communication skills
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs, stand for extended periods, and travel extensively
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools

• Approximately 70% travel to customer sites, with most weekends at home

• Competitive pay based on experience
• Day shift role with strong work/life balance
• Health, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability coverage
• Paid PTO and company holidays
• 401(k) with company matching
• Employee ownership program participation
• Company-paid cell phone