Senior Packaging Maintenance Lead - On-Site

United Future; Glendale Heights (IL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Overtime up to 50 hours/week

Modern equipment and tools

Strong team culture

Private, stable company

Job summary

United Future seeks a Lead Packaging Maintenance Mechanic to support high-speed packaging and processing lines in a multi-line DuPage County plant. The role emphasizes repairing and rebuilding machinery with strong electrical troubleshooting while mentoring junior technicians.

You will work on form-fill-seal equipment, baggers, and seals, logging all maintenance in the CMMS and collaborating with operations and engineering on improvement projects.

Qualifications

• 5-10+ years of maintenance experience in high-speed food packaging, co-packing, or food manufacturing.
• Strong electrical troubleshooting ability; no full electrician credentials required.
• Proven experience maintaining and rebuilding packaging machinery such as baggers, form-fill-seal equipment, and sealers.
• CMMS experience preferred.
• AAS degree, technical certifications, or equivalent hands-on experience preferred.
• Willing and able to coach less experienced mechanics.
• Self-sufficient and comfortable taking on the toughest problems on the floor.

Responsibilities

• Keep high-speed packaging and processing equipment running across a large, multi-line plant.
• Rebuild and refurbish machinery to like-new condition during planned and emergency downtime.
• Diagnose mechanical, pneumatic, and electrical faults on baggers, sealers, scales, and supporting equipment, and fix them without waiting on help.
• Handle electrical troubleshooting and repairs on the lines as part of daily work.
• Teach and mentor junior technicians, passing along what you know.
• Complete preventive maintenance tasks and log all work in the CMMS.
• Work alongside operations and engineering on improvement projects.

Skills

Electrical troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

Coaching/Mentoring

Self-direction

Education

AAS degree or certifications

High school diploma or GED

Tools

CMMS

Job description

United Future seeks a Lead Packaging Maintenance Mechanic to support high-speed packaging and processing lines in a multi-line DuPage County plant. The role emphasizes repairing and rebuilding machinery with strong electrical troubleshooting while mentoring junior technicians.

You will work on form-fill-seal equipment, baggers, and seals, logging all maintenance in the CMMS and collaborating with operations and engineering on improvement projects.