Preventative Maintenance/Set-Up Technician

Company Description

Cheer Pack North America is the leading manufacturer of spouted pouch packaging in North America, combining convenience and functionality for our customers. The company is a fully integrated manufacturer of injection molded parts, flexible pouches, and pouch filling equipment.

We offer pre-made spouted pouches or the individual parts separately to ultimately provide an innovative, flexible, portable, and highly functional system designed to meet the industry’s strictest safety standards. Our premade pouches feature a sealed-in, easy flow spout with a re-closeable, tamper-evident cap, and are available in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and materials.

Job Description

Position summary: Responsible for machine preventative maintenance/changeovers, set-ups, and validations.

Essential functions and responsibilities:

• Ability to perform quality testing as needed
• Approves in-process production by confirming specifications; conducting visual and measurement tests; communicating required adjustments to quality and the production supervisor
• Assist with product changeovers as needed
• Back up to maintenance technician as needed
• Clean heads
• Completion of all pertinent maintenance paperwork and/or electronic data entries on tablets.
• General knowledge of pneumatic and hydraulic systems
• General maintenance skill
• Assist production team as needed; cover breaks and lunch
• Help with work instruction documentation
• Knowledge of heat-sealing process a plus
• Notify lead of needed extended repairs and/or spare parts
• Perform product changeovers, machine set-up as needed
• Perform validations and fix any issues
• Preventative machine maintenance
• Safety conscious
• Set-up barcode readers and cameras
• Report any potential food safety, legality, quality or food defense concerns to the production manager or quality personnel
• Follow all documented Good Manufacturing Practices
• Maintains product safety, legality, regulatory compliance and quality systems
• Must follow all company policies and procedures
• Must follow PPE procedures (Personal Protection Equipment)
• This is a Safety Sensitive Position (drug test may be required)

Non-essential skills and experience:

• Other duties as required

Success factors/job competencies:

• Be a great team player
• Have good communication skills
• Be proficient at troubleshooting and problem solving
• Be responsible and trustworthy
• Strive for continuous improvement and quality workmanship

Physical demands and work environment:

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls: reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear. Employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 lbs.  Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job the employee is/or may be exposed to high noise levels that require hearing protection.  Employee may also be required to wear safety glasses and/or safety gloves.

Qualifications

Qualifications required:

• High school/GED
• 1-2 years of experience in a manufacturing or assembly environment with direct experience in machine maintenance
• Basic computer skills
• Good attitude; ability to work well with others and be a team player
• Good communication and organization skills
• Knowledge of heat-sealing process
• Knowledge of pneumatic and hydraulic systems
• Mechanical troubleshooting skills
• Quality and safety conscious
• Strong mechanical skills

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Cheer Pack North America and its strategic global partners are the leaders in flexible spouted pouch packaging around the world (think squeezable pouches with fruit purees). Our food packaging can be found in nearly every home in America and many large and well-known brands use CHEER PACK® pouches to deliver food and more to consumer. CHEER PACK® pouches are filled using state-of-the-industry filling equipment manufactured by our strategic partner, Gualapack. These filling machines are engineered to handle a wide range of viscosities and allow quick and easy changeovers from one package style or size to another