Overnight Industrial Maintenance Technician

Maintenance Technician

Keep production moving, grow your trade skills, and enjoy long weekends.

Location:

Middlebury, VT

Vermont Hard Cider Co., d.b.a. Green Mountain Beverage, is a leading co-packaging partner and manufacturer of hard cider, alcoholic, and specialty non-alcoholic beverages. Are you a hands-on problem solver who enjoys keeping equipment running and production moving? Join our Middlebury maintenance team and troubleshoot, repair, inspect, and maintain production, packaging, utility, and facility equipment in a fast-paced beverage manufacturing and co-packaging environment.

This is a great fit for someone who enjoys variety, takes pride in quality work, and values safety, reliability, and teamwork. Apply today and bring your experience to Green Mountain Beverage.

Schedule:

Monday–Thursday, 10:00 p.m.–8:30 a.m. Pay: $24.00–$38.00/hour plus $2.00/hour overnight differential plus bonus and benefits eligibility. Final pay depends on experience, qualifications, internal equity, and business needs.

Why You'll Like This Role

• Four-night schedule with long weekends and consistent overnight hours.
• Competitive hourly pay plus overnight shift differential.
• Hands-on work with varied production and packaging equipment.
• Opportunities to build mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Room to grow into advanced maintenance, equipment reliability, and leadership opportunities over time.

Key Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot, repair, set up, adjust, inspect, and maintain production, packaging, utility, and facility equipment.
• Support bottling, canning, kegging, and variety pack lines during changeovers, startups, shutdowns, sanitation/CIP activities, and emergency repairs.
• Work with conveyors, pumps, valves, motors, gearboxes, sensors, controls, pneumatic/hydraulic systems, electrical components, and related equipment.
• Complete preventive maintenance, work orders, inspections, parts documentation, and shift handoff notes accurately and on time.
• Partner with Production, Quality, Sanitation, Warehouse, and Management to reduce downtime and support safe, reliable operations.

Requirements

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; technical training, apprenticeship, military maintenance training, or equivalent hands-on experience preferred.
• Industrial maintenance experience in food, beverage, packaging, manufacturing, automation, or a related environment preferred.
• Mechanical aptitude and interest in troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and controls-related issues.
• Ability to follow SOPs, work orders, equipment manuals, safety procedures, and basic technical documentation. Comfortable working overnight in a hands-on production environment and performing physical job requirements, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance to support you and your family. Paid time off starting at 3 weeks in the first year, plus up to 10 paid holidays.
• Generous paid parental leave and company-paid life and disability insurance.
• Annual bonus opportunity and monthly product allowance.
• Training and hands-on experience that can help you grow your technical skills and build a long-term career.

About Vermont Cider Company

We reinvigorated American hard cider in 1991 and continue to lead the category through our commitment to crafting innovative and refreshing hard ciders. Vermont Cider Co. crafts a variety of ciders from iconic Woodchuck Hard Cider to fruit-forward Wyder's Cider. Visit our Cider House tap room in Middlebury, VT or learn more at  where you can find cider near you or order online.

About Green Mountain Beverage

Green Mountain Beverage is a world-class co-packer of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, offering quality, flexibility, and expertise to help brands scale with confidence.

Vermont Hard Cider Company is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals. Employment is subject to verification of background investigation.