Packaging Equipment Specialist

Carolina Beverage • Mooresville, NC

21h

About The Position

The Packaging Equipment Specialist installs, sets up, maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs canning and bottling equipment to support safe, efficient production in a beverage manufacturing plant. The role performs equipment changeovers, rebuilds, preventive and corrective maintenance, and diagnoses mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and basic hydraulic issues. It also supports and trains team members on case packers and multipackers, and helps maintain reliable equipment in a high-volume, high-speed, 24/7 production operation.

The position is listed as full-time dayshift, with a 12-hour shift from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Thursday. The schedule may also require flexibility to work night shifts, overtime, and weekends as production needs dictate.

The job involves working near moving machinery and on elevated platforms. The employee may also encounter wet, humid, outdoor, hot or cold conditions; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; electrical-shock risks; and usually loud noise. Physical demands include regularly lifting or moving up to 50 pounds and occasionally lifting up to 100 pounds, along with frequent standing, walking, and handling objects.

A high school diploma or equivalent is required. A technical certificate in industrial maintenance, mechatronics, electrical systems, or a related field, and two or more years of industrial maintenance or packaging-equipment experience, are preferred. Equivalent combinations of education, training, and relevant experience will be considered.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Strong troubleshooting skills in a high-volume, high-speed manufacturing operation.
• Working knowledge of machinery timing, including stroke, position, dwell, and cams.
• Ability to work as part of a team and respond quickly when production needs help.
• Ability to use HMI screens, email, data-logging tools, and other basic computer programs.
• Ability to follow food safety, quality, sanitation, and GMP requirements.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including nights, overtime, and weekends, to support a 24/7 operation.
• Ability to maintain personal hand tools.
• Ability to perform the essential duties satisfactorily; reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities.
• Ability to meet the stated physical demands, including regularly lifting or moving up to 50 pounds and occasionally lifting up to 100 pounds.

Nice To Haves

• Technical certificate in industrial maintenance, mechatronics, electrical systems, or a related field.
• Two or more years of industrial maintenance or packaging-equipment experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform changeovers, troubleshooting, rebuilds, and training for case packers and multipackers in a beverage manufacturing plant.
• Demonstrate a working understanding of machinery timing, including stroke, timing, position, dwell, and cams.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot production equipment in a manufacturing plant.
• Troubleshoot and repair electromechanical systems and equipment, including motors, starters, sensors, VFDs, and servos.
• Troubleshoot and repair pneumatic systems, including air cylinders and electro-pneumatic solenoids.
• Troubleshoot and repair mechanical systems, including chains, belts, and sprockets.
• Troubleshoot and repair basic hydraulic systems, including cylinders, motors, and solenoids.
• Troubleshoot, repair, and calibrate process-monitoring sensors and equipment, including temperature, pressure, level, and flow sensors, gauges, meters, transducers, and transmitters.
• Complete equipment changeovers and preventive and corrective maintenance to support safe, efficient production.
• Support a 24/7 manufacturing plant by working a flexible schedule that may include night shifts, overtime, and weekends.
• Maintain a personal inventory of the tools needed for the position.
• Work effectively with others in a team-based environment and respond quickly when production needs assistance.
• Use HMI interfaces and setup, email, data-logging tools, and other basic computer programs.
• Comply with food safety, quality, sanitation, and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements.
• Read, understand, and follow machine manuals, mechanical drawings, SOPs, and PIDs.
• Complete required documentation, including work orders and parts inventory removal.
• Demonstrate drive, initiative, urgency, and pride in supporting high-volume, high-speed manufacturing.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, HSA, and FSA plans, plus dental and vision coverage options for employees and their families; coverage begins the first of the month following 60 days.
• Paid time off and paid holidays.
• 401(k) with company match, beginning after the first paycheck.
• Monthly performance-based bonuses.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Life insurance, AD&D insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Free uniforms.
• Referral bonuses.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED