Night Shift Beverage Maintenance Tech: High-Speed Equipment

Niagara Bottling, LLC; Middleburg (FL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Sick time

401(k)

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Niagara Bottling, LLC is seeking a Maintenance Technician to support production at our facility. The role focuses on maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing high-speed beverage manufacturing equipment, packaging systems, plant utilities, and sanitation/CIP-related systems to maximize safety, food quality, reliability, and uptime.

The position requires strong mechanical and electrical skills, familiarity with PLC/HMI, and the ability to respond quickly to line issues.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required; technical degree or certificate in industrial maintenance, mechatronics, electrical technology, automation, food/beverage manufacturing, or related field preferred.
• 4 years of industrial, food/beverage, bottling, packaging, or manufacturing maintenance experience preferred; equivalent technical training or education may be considered.
• Ability to troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, controls, PLC/HMI, sensors, VFDs, servo systems, utility, and automated beverage production equipment.
• Familiarity with fillers, cappers, blow molders, labelers, conveyors, case packers, palletizers, stretch wrappers, CIP systems, and beverage plant utilities is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of schematics, diagnostic tools, maintenance shop equipment, precision measuring tools, sanitation requirements, CMMS/work order systems, and basic computer applications.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain high-speed beverage production equipment including blow molders, fillers, cappers, labelers, case packers, conveyors, palletizers, stretch wrappers, and related automation.
• Respond quickly to line breakdowns, support startups, SKU changeovers, mechanical setups, and equipment adjustments to reduce downtime, waste, and repeat failures.
• Complete preventive, predictive, corrective, and reliability-focused maintenance on production equipment, packaging equipment, and beverage process support systems.
• Maintain and troubleshoot plant utility and support systems such as air compressors, chillers, RO/water filtration, pumps, valves, piping, and related facility equipment.
• Support sanitation and food safety requirements by assisting with CIP, equipment cleaning, allergen/contamination prevention.
• Partner with operations and quality teams to support line checks, fill-level performance, cap torque, label alignment, package integrity, coding/traceability, and defect reduction.
• Document work orders, downtime details, parts usage, follow-up needs, and shift handoff information accurately in the maintenance system.
• Follow safety, lockout/tagout, GMP, food safety, quality, sanitation, environmental, housekeeping, and plant operating requirements.
• Communicate clearly with operators, production leadership, maintenance teammates, and leadership to support safe and reliable operations.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Electrical systems

Pneumatic systems

Hydraulic systems

PLC/HMI

VFDs

Servo systems

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Technical degree or certificate in industrial maintenance/mechatronics

Tools

CMMS

Diagnostic tools

Precision measuring tools

Shop equipment

Job description

Niagara Bottling, LLC is seeking a Maintenance Technician to support production at our facility. The role focuses on maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing high-speed beverage manufacturing equipment, packaging systems, plant utilities, and sanitation/CIP-related systems to maximize safety, food quality, reliability, and uptime.

The position requires strong mechanical and electrical skills, familiarity with PLC/HMI, and the ability to respond quickly to line issues.