Facilities Mechanic

DEPARTMENT:  Maintenance 

REPORTS TO:  Maintenance Manager

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The Facilities Mechanic is responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing facility systems and equipment to ensure safe, efficient, and continuous manufacturing operations. This role supports building infrastructure, utilities, and mechanical systems within the manufacturing plant.

RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on facility equipment and systems.
• Maintain and repair HVAC systems, air compressors, boilers, plumbing, and electrical systems.
• Troubleshoot mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.
• Conduct routine inspections of building infrastructure and utility systems.
• Respond to emergency maintenance requests in a timely manner.
• Install, modify, and repair facility-related mechanical components.
• Monitor and maintain facility support systems (compressed air, chilled water, steam, etc.).
• Maintain accurate maintenance records and documentation.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA and company safety standards.
• Coordinate with external contractors for major repairs or upgrades.
• Support energy efficiency and continuous improvement initiatives.

REQUIRED SKILLS / ATTITUDES:

• High school diploma or GED required; technical or trade school certification preferred.
• 3 years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical systems, HVAC, plumbing, and basic electrical systems.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, schematics, and technical manuals.
• Experience with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems).
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Willingness to work flexible shifts, weekends, or overtime as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• HVAC certification or EPA certification.
• Experience with industrial boilers and compressed air systems.
• Welding and fabrication experience.
• Forklift or scissor lift certification.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing or TPM principles

Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties, the employee willbe requiredto sit and/or stand,talkor hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands,fingersand arms to feel objects or controls, reach with hands and arms. Prolonged standing/walking periods of 12 hours. May berequiredto stoop, kneel, bend,crouchand lift to 50 pounds. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Safety Responsibilities:
  1. Supports a culture where employees address unsafe conditions and behaviors, make suggestions for improvements, and actively participates in implementing solutions
  2. Identifies safety gaps and self-initiates corrective actions
  3. Strictly adheres to plant safety, housekeeping, and 5S efforts
  4. Understands, identifies, and corrects safety hazards
  5. Drives a culture which empowers employees to understand and embrace what they own
• Food Safety Responsibilities:
  1. Monitors and verifies activities to ensure that finished goods and raw materials are coming in and out of the facility meet consumer safety and quality standards.
  2. Complies with all company food safety and quality assurance procedures
  3. Reports any product or process failures that could impact food safety of manufactured products to the location’s Food Safety Team Leader and submits an appropriate incident report

About MRP:

MRP Solutions (MRP), a plastic cap manufacturer, is a leading provider of high-quality, injection molded plastic closures, jars and packaging components used every day by millions of consumers around the globe. But we offer more than just plastic caps and lids – we deliver industry-leading packaging solutions tailored to each customer’s unique requirements, providing best-in-class product protection while ensuring consumer confidence.  

MRP Solutions combines extensive packaging expertise with a consultative approach to reliably uncover customer needs. By understanding your business goals, we can tailor smarter, safer, and more flexible packaging solutions that reduce cost and increase speed to market, helping your businesses capitalize on opportunity. By constantly innovating, MRP enables our customers to grow, making us a preferred partner.

We are passionate about partnering with distributors and manufacturers who understand that plastic caps and lids are a small but important part of how people experience their brands. Together, we deliver packaging with purpose.

Our Vision: 

We deliver industry-leading packaging solutions tailored to each customer’s unique requirements, providing best-in-class product protection while ensuring consumer confidence.

By constantly innovating, MRP enables our customers to grow, making us a preferred partner.

Our Values & Beliefs

• Integrity – We have the courage to act with the highest level of integrity, even when no one is watching. We do what is right 100% of the time.
• Value Creation – The sole reason a company exists is to create real long-term value for society.  This starts with ensuring human safety, as value cannot be created without first protecting human life. We seek opportunities for mutual benefit with all of our stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, suppliers, and the communities in which we operate. In everything we do, our overarching goal is to deliver superior results..
• Accountability - We are accountable to each other and to our stakeholders.  We say what we do and do what we say.  We embrace a culture of ownership, empowering and equipping employees with the ability to own their outcomes.
• Entrepreneurial - Everyone thinks and acts like owners, employing good economic and critical thinking skills while adopting the risk profile of our shareholders.  We are inquisitive, constantly seeking out opportunities to improve, actively searching for and innovating across each and every aspect of our business. We relentlessly strive to understand and profitably anticipate what our customers need and value, because if our customers do not grow, we do not grow.
• Respectful and Friendly – Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. Because everyone's perspective has value, we embrace diversity of thought, background and experiences.  We are friendly and lead with a smile. What we do is important, but how we do it is what makes it impactful.
• Change - We actively seek out and embrace change wherever profitable.  Because society is constantly identifying and employing new and better ways of accomplishing tasks, we must constantly innovate, reinvent and, ultimately, destroy the old ways of doing business.  We actively engage in rigorous debate and embrace challenge to ensure we stay relevant and deliver superior results.
• Fulfillment – Our employees are the foundation of our success.  We foster an environment enabling our employees to learn, grow and accept more accountability as they demonstrate capability.  We promote more than just individual connection as community at work brings people together through common interest, objectives or experiences.

MRP Solutions is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status), national origin, age, disability, medical condition, marital or protected veteran status or any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the obligations of state and federal law, MRP Solutions will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any employee who needs reasonable accommodation should contact Human Resources.