Maintenance Technician Final Packaging

Overall Responsibility: Serve as a multi-craft maintenance technician specializing in final packaging equipment and systems within a food manufacturing environment. Maintain, troubleshoot, repair, and improve packaging machinery to support production schedules, minimize downtime, and ensure finished products are packaged safely, accurately, and efficiently. Promote teamwork, continuous improvement, and compliance with all company food safety, quality, sanitation, and occupational safety requirements.

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• Follow Watershed Foods sanitation, GMPs, HACCP procedures, Food Safety policies and Occupational Safety Policies. Support all Watershed Foods Food Safety initiatives. Address Food Safety, Quality and Occupational Safety concerns with Operations, Quality and Maintenance Team members and contractors.
• Effectively and efficiently troubleshoot, correct, and repair equipment to maintain safe production.
• Complete maintenance tasks of PMs, inspections, pump/gearbox rebuilds, electrical troubleshooting, and changing out mechanical/electrical components.
• Identify equipment problems found during inspections and PMs to prevent equipment down time.
• Initiate root cause analysis investigations to eliminate repeat problems.
• Maintain a clean work area and maintain thorough records.
• Be available for call-in situations where support is needed on weekends and other shifts.
• Willing to come in early or work over to cover production needs.

Note: These are minimum requirements for this position and are to be used as a guide for appropriate performance. Watershed Foods reserves the right to change, alter, or modify this job description in any way with or without notice.