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Skilled - Maintenance Technician

Rockford, IL 61109

Posted: 08/14/2026 Job Number: 815736 Pay Rate: 62,400 Industry: Pharma/Medical

Job Description

Position Title: Maintenance Technician

Wage: $27.00-$30.00/hour

Shift: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Weekend A, Weekend B

Hours: 1st: 7:00am-3:00pm, 2nd: 3:00pm-11:00pm, 3rd: 9:00pm-7:00am (Monday-Thursday), Weekend A: 7:00am-7:00pm (Friday-Sunday), Weekend B: 7:00pm-7:00am (Friday-Sunday)

We're hiring a Maintenance Technician for a company in Rockford, IL. This is direct hire opportunity with various shifts available.

Maintenance Technician Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Support the packaging lines by making routine and non-routine adjustments that ensure a high-quality product
- Collaborate with other departments and other Maintenance Mechanics to obtain information or experience to keep lines running at an efficient rate
- Perform preventive maintenance, changeovers, repairs, and running adjustments
- Systematically gather information from a variety of sources, analyze the information, identify implications of data, draw appropriate conclusions, generate viable, alternative solutions to a question or problem, and evaluate the consequences of choosing each alternative
- Assert personal ideas and opinions to convince others, including gaining others' support through one's own actions, examples, or persuasion in an ethical manner
- Define, diagnose, and resolve problems; includes seeking, logically examining, and interpreting information from different sources to determine a problem's cause and developing a course of action to resolve the problem and to prevent its recurrence
- Provide guidance to others by responding to questions; observing work activity; giving direction when necessary; and providing on-the-job training
- Use a variety of hand tools and power tools to perform specific duties
- Detect faulty operations, defective material, and report those and any unusual situation to proper personal
- Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and services
- May require overtime and/or weekend work
- May require use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR)
- Knowledge of and adherence to all company, cGMP, and GCP policies, procedures, rules
- Prompt escalation to supervisor of any safety issue, quality issue, or downtime following the established escalation protocol
- Perform Single Minute Exchange of Dies, (SMED) activities on packaging lines
- Execute initiatives relating to OPEX objectives
- Analyze equipment failures to improve overall reliability of the equipment, while maintaining productivity
- Update setup documentation to ensure all settings are current and accurate
- Work with The Business Units and Scheduling to accurately maintain a timeline for any launches or validations of products
- Audit and maintain a high level of 5's in the facility to help maintain a safe, organized, clean high-performing workplace
- Document and drive actions for specific respected value stream
- Audit the centerline document system to insure sustainability and a high level of productivity
- Attend Tier I Daily Directional Setting (DDS) meeting; give feedback and follow-ups when outages occur from the centerline document

Maintenance Technician Requirements:
- Skill testing requirements met at approved grade level for position
- Must have at least 2-3 years of applicable maintenance experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment or 2-year Technical school
- Basic mathematical and computer skills; ability to perform basic computer tasks and can operate common computer programs
- Ability to speak in a way that allows one to participate effectively in various conversations; ability to read various types of standard items addressed to general readers
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where there is only limited standardization
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions that may be provided in various forms

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