Nights Maintenance Lead - Bottling Plant

Premium Waters; Byram (MS); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid life insurance

Short-term and long-term disability

401(k) retirement plan with company 0.

Paid time off and paid holidays

Employee assistance program

Career growth and development

Safe, team-oriented, and family‑free环境

Job summary

Premium Waters is seeking a hands-on Maintenance Lead to join our Byram, MS bottled water facility. This role focuses on keeping high-speed production equipment running safely and efficiently, with daily direction to maintenance technicians and close collaboration with production, quality, and safety teams.

You’ll troubleshoot bottling equipment, perform preventive maintenance, and drive root‑cause solutions while promoting a safe, organized maintenance environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of industrial maintenance experience.
• Experience in food, beverage, bottled water, packaging, or manufacturing is a plus.
• Strong mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with conveyors, fillers, cappers, labelers, case packers, palletizers, compressors, pumps, and automated production equipment preferred.
• Ability to read schematics, manuals, blueprints, and technical drawings.
• Prior lead, senior technician, or supervisory experience preferred.
• PLC troubleshooting, welding, fabrication, CMMS, forklift, or aerial lift experience is a plus.
• Strong communication, teamwork, problem‑solving, accountability, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support maintenance technicians during the shift.
• Troubleshoot and repair bottling equipment, conveyors, fillers, cappers, labelers, palletizers, compressors, pumps, motors, and utility systems.
• Respond quickly to equipment breakdowns to reduce downtime and support production needs.
• Support preventive maintenance, equipment rebuilds, line startups, shutdowns, and changeovers.
• Perform mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and basic PLC troubleshooting.
• Identify recurring equipment issues and help drive root‑cause solutions.
• Communicate equipment status, repair updates, downtime concerns, and parts needs to leadership.
• Maintain accurate work orders, repair notes, downtime details, and parts usage documentation.
• Support technician training, coaching, and skill development.
• Promote a safe, clean, organized, and team‑focused maintenance environment.
• Follow and support safety, GMP, SQF, food safety, lockout/tagout, and housekeeping standards.

Skills

Leadership

Troubleshooting

Mechanical

Electrical

Pneumatic & Hydraulic

PLC troubleshooting

Reading schematics

Team leadership

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

CMMS

Forklift

Aerial lift

Job description

Premium Waters is seeking a hands-on Maintenance Lead to join our Byram, MS bottled water facility. This role focuses on keeping high-speed production equipment running safely and efficiently, with daily direction to maintenance technicians and close collaboration with production, quality, and safety teams.

You’ll troubleshoot bottling equipment, perform preventive maintenance, and drive root‑cause solutions while promoting a safe, organized maintenance environment.