Maintenance Technician

Machine Maintenance Technician

A Machine Maintenance Technician inspects, repairs, and maintains industrial machinery to ensure peak performance, prevents downtime, and keep equipment safe in various sectors like manufacturing, energy, and food processing, handling tasks from routine lubrication and diagnostics to major component replacement and troubleshooting mechanical or electrical issues using hand/power tools and following strict safety protocols.

Essential functions:

• Preventive Maintenance:
  Perform regular checks, cleaning, lubrication, and calibration to prevent breakdowns.
• Troubleshooting & Repair:
  Diagnose issues, analyze error messages, and fix or replace broken parts (mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic).
• Installation:
  Set up and assemble new machinery and equipment.
• Testing:
  Conduct tests after repairs to ensure machines run smoothly and efficiently.
• Safety Compliance:
  Adhere to lockout/tagout procedures, safety guidelines, and machine specifications.
• Documentation:
  Record maintenance, repair, and production data.
• Work with team members as needed
• Uses lock-out tag-out procedures on all equipment.
• Works with technicians to troubleshoot problems with molding machines and implement permanent fixes/solutions
• Maintains safe and clean work environment by using all equipment and resources while maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures
• Reads and understands mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, pneumatic schematics, and PLC ladder logic
• Work with teams to help with the installation of new equipment, and implementation of plant driven continuous improvement projects
• Resolve technical problems by investigating issues, identifying solutions, and providing recommendations for corrective actions
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops
• Logs time on PMs and repairs into the shop system database

Position requirements:

• High school education preferred or equivalent work experience
• Experience in preventive maintenance, electronics and hydraulics
• 3 years' experience working with Injection Molding Machines required
• Ability to install general equipment utilizing equipment manuals
• Ability to teach other members of dept and be on-call to assist when machines are down
• Electronic component repair skills desired, but not required
• Competent use of hand tools and electrical test devices

Responsibilities:

• Safety Responsibilities:
• Supports a culture where employees address unsafe conditions and behaviors, make suggestions for improvements, and actively participates in implementing solutions
• Identifies safety gaps and self-initiates corrective actions
• Strictly adheres to plant safety, housekeeping, and 5S efforts
• Understands, identifies, and corrects safety hazards
• Drives a culture which empowers employees to understand and embrace what they own
• Food Safety Responsibilities:
• Monitors and verifies activities to ensure that finished goods and raw materials are coming in and out of the facility meet consumer safety and quality standards.
• Complies with all company food safety and quality assurance procedures
• Reports any product or process failures that could impact food safety of manufactured products to the location's Food Safety Team Leader and submits an appropriate incident report

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties, the employee will be working in an office environment as well as on the manufacturing plant floor. The employee is required to sit and/or stand for computer or floor responsibilities, reach with hands and arms and handle objects and other tools, stoop, squat, twist, push and pull, maintain balance, bend at the waist, kneel, walk varying distances, and climb stairs.

Employees may be required to lift up to 20 pounds.

About MRP:

MRP Solutions (MRP), a plastic cap manufacturer, is a leading provider of high-quality, injection molded plastic closures, jars and packaging components used every day by millions of consumers around the globe. But we offer more than just plastic caps and lids – we deliver industry-leading packaging solutions tailored to each customer's unique requirements, providing best-in-class product protection while ensuring consumer…