Job Description
Job Title: Packaging Automation Technician
Location: Bartlett, IL
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Target Pay Rate: $34.00 - $37.00/hour (plus OT and safety bonus)
Shift: multiple shifts are available
- 2nd shift: 2:00pm-10:30pm (Monday-Friday, occasional weekend)
- 3rd shift: 10:00pm-6:30am (Monday-Friday, occasional weekend)
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, PTO, holiday pay, 401(k), and additional company benefits.
Must-Have Skills:
- High-speed automated packaging equipment troubleshooting and repair
- Mechanical troubleshooting, calibration, alignment, and machine setup
- PLC troubleshooting (Allen-Bradley & Siemens)
- Pneumatics, sensors, servo motors, and automation systems
- Food manufacturing, beverage manufacturing, or CPG manufacturing experience
- Preventive maintenance (PM) and emergency repairs
- CMMS experience
- GMP, HACCP, SQF, and LOTO compliance
Job Summary:
We are seeking a Packaging Automation Technician to support high-speed automated packaging equipment in a food or CPG manufacturing environment. This role is responsible for troubleshooting, repairing, maintaining, calibrating, and optimizing packaging machinery to maximize uptime, efficiency, and product quality.
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with automated packaging equipment including cartoners, flow wrappers, HFFS/VFFS systems, tray sealers, conveyors, servo-driven equipment, and pneumatic systems.
Job Duties:
- Troubleshoot, repair, and maintain high-speed packaging equipment and automated production lines
- Perform preventive maintenance, changeovers, machine setup, calibration, alignment, and timing adjustments
- Support packaging equipment including:
- Cartoners
- Flow wrappers
- HFFS/VFFS systems
- Tray sealers
- Conveyors
- Troubleshoot mechanical, pneumatic, sensor, servo motor, and basic electrical systems
- Optimize machine performance, packaging line efficiency, and equipment reliability
- Read schematics, technical drawings, and OEM manuals
- Utilize CMMS to document maintenance activities and repairs
- Support GMP, HACCP, SQF, and Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) compliance
- Assist with equipment installation, startup, and continuous improvement initiatives
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or GED required; technical training preferred
- 2+ years of experience maintaining high-speed packaging equipment in food manufacturing, beverage manufacturing, or CPG manufacturing
- Strong mechanical troubleshooting and automation experience
- Experience with pneumatics, sensors, servo motors, conveyors, and automated packaging systems
- Basic PLC exposure (Allen-Bradley or Siemens preferred)
- Ability to read schematics and technical manuals
- Welding/fabrication experience is a plus
- Ability to work overtime, weekends, or flexible shifts as needed
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Bartlett, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $34–$37 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Allen-Bradleyunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Automation Systemsunmatched
- Calibrationunmatched
- Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)unmatched
- Consumer Packaged Goodsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Equipment Maintenance/Repairunmatched
- Food Productionunmatched
- Food and Beverage Industryunmatched
- GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)unmatched
- High School Diplomaunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Maintenance Servicesunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer)unmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Preventative Maintenanceunmatched
- Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)unmatched
- Schematicsunmatched
- Servomechanismunmatched
- System Start-Upunmatched
- Technical Drawingunmatched
- Technical Trainingunmatched
- Technical Writingunmatched
- Weldingunmatched
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