Job Description: Preventive Maintenance (PM) Technician
Department: Maintenance
Reports To: Maintenance Supervisor / Maintenance Manager
Schedule: 1st Shift, Monday–Friday
Position Summary
The Preventive Maintenance (PM) Technician is responsible for performing scheduled maintenance, equipment inspections, adjustments, and repairs on production machinery in a plastic cap manufacturing facility. Equipment includes lining machines, rotary assembly machines, conveyor systems, and other automated production equipment.
The primary focus of this position is preventive maintenance to improve equipment reliability, minimize unplanned downtime, and maintain consistent production and product quality. The technician will also assist with equipment breakdowns, troubleshooting, and corrective repairs as needed.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Perform scheduled preventive maintenance on lining machines, rotary assembly machines, conveyors, and other production equipment.
- Inspect, lubricate, adjust, and replace worn or damaged components, including bearings, belts, chains, sprockets, rollers, gears, and pneumatic components.
- Inspect machine timing, alignment, indexing mechanisms, tooling, and material feed systems to ensure proper operation.
- Maintain conveyor systems, including belt tracking, chain tension, rollers, drive components, and product transfer points.
- Assist with equipment breakdowns by troubleshooting mechanical, pneumatic, electrical, and sensor-related issues within the technician's training and authorization.
- Apply basic electrical knowledge to troubleshoot 24V DC, 120V, 240V, and 480V systems in accordance with safety procedures and qualifications.
- Identify developing equipment problems, recurring failures, and opportunities to improve reliability and reduce downtime.
- Verify proper machine operation following maintenance or repairs and communicate equipment status to production.
- Complete PM checklists and accurately document maintenance activities, repairs, parts usage, and follow-up needs.
- Maintain a clean, organized work area and support 5S, continuous improvement, and equipment reliability initiatives.
- Follow all safety procedures, including lockout/tagout (LOTO), machine guarding requirements, and applicable quality and housekeeping standards.
Qualifications and Requirements
- High school diploma or GED required; technical training in industrial maintenance preferred.
- Previous industrial or manufacturing maintenance experience required.
- Working knowledge of mechanical systems, power transmission, bearings, lubrication, and pneumatic equipment.
- Basic electrical knowledge of 24V DC, 120V, 240V, and 480V systems.
- Ability to troubleshoot equipment issues and safely use common maintenance tools.
- Familiarity with automated production equipment, sensors, and basic electrical diagrams preferred.
- Experience with HMI (Human-Machine Interface) systems and vision inspection systems is a plus.
- Familiarity with 5S, TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), or Lean Manufacturing principles is a plus.
- Basic fabrication and machining skills, including the ability to perform simple equipment modifications or component repairs, are a plus.
- Strong mechanical aptitude, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and collaborate with production and maintenance personnel.
Work Environment and Schedule
This is a first-shift position, Monday through Friday, in a plastic cap manufacturing environment. The role requires working around production equipment and performing physical maintenance tasks, including standing, bending, kneeling, and lifting within company safety guidelines. Occasional overtime may be required to support production and maintenance needs.
Performance Expectations
The PM Technician is expected to complete preventive maintenance on schedule, identify potential equipment failures before they cause downtime, respond effectively to breakdowns, maintain accurate maintenance records, and support safe, reliable, and efficient production operations.
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 confidence.
MRP Solutions combines extensive packaging expertise with a consultative approach to reliably uncover customer needs. By understanding your business goals, we can tailor smarter, safer, and more flexible packaging solutions that reduce cost and increase speed to market, helping your businesses capitalize on opportunity. By constantly innovating, MRP enables our customers to grow, making us a preferred partner.
We are passionate about partnering with distributors and manufacturers who understand that plastic caps and lids are a small but important part of how people experience their brands. Together, we deliver packaging with purpose.
Our Vision:
We deliver industry-leading packaging solutions tailored to each customer’s unique requirements, providing best-in-class product protection while ensuring consumer confidence.
By constantly innovating, MRP enables our customers to grow, making us a preferred partner.
Our Values & Beliefs
- Integrity – We have the courage to act with the highest level of integrity, even when no one is watching. We do what is right 100% of the time.
- Value Creation – The sole reason a company exists is to create real long-term value for society. This starts with ensuring human safety, as value cannot be created without first protecting human life. We seek opportunities for mutual benefit with all of our stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, suppliers, and the communities in which we operate. In everything we do, our overarching goal is to deliver superior results..
- Accountability - We are accountable to each other and to our stakeholders. We say what we do and do what we say. We embrace a culture of ownership, empowering and equipping employees with the ability to own their outcomes.
- Entrepreneurial - Everyone thinks and acts like owners, employing good economic and critical thinking skills while adopting the risk profile of our shareholders. We are inquisitive, constantly seeking out opportunities to improve, actively searching for and innovating across each and every aspect of our business. We relentlessly strive to understand and profitably anticipate what our customers need and value, because if our customers do not grow, we do not grow.
- Respectful and Friendly – Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. Because everyone's perspective has value, we embrace diversity of thought, background and experiences. We are friendly and lead with a smile. What we do is important, but how we do it is what makes it impactful.
- Change - We actively seek out and embrace change wherever profitable. Because society is constantly identifying and employing new and better ways of accomplishing tasks, we must constantly innovate, reinvent and, ultimately, destroy the old ways of doing business. We actively engage in rigorous debate and embrace challenge to ensure we stay relevant and deliver superior results.
- Fulfillment – Our employees are the foundation of our success. We foster an environment enabling our employees to learn, grow and accept more accountability as they demonstrate capability. We promote more than just individual connection as community at work brings people together through common interest, objectives or experiences.
MRP Solutions is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status), national origin, age, disability, medical condition, marital or protected veteran status or any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the obligations of state and federal law, MRP Solutions will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any employee who needs a reasonable accommodation should contact Human Resources.
