Job Description
Title: Production Mechanic (3rd Shift)
Location:Oak Brook, IL
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Shift : 11 PM – 7:30 AM
Compensation: $30 - $33/hr + 15% hourly shift differential
Production Mechanic – Level 3
Position Summary
Our client is seeking an experienced Production Mechanic to maintain, troubleshoot, and repair automated production and packaging equipment. This position performs line changeovers, preventive maintenance, corrective repairs, equipment overhauls, and custom parts fabrication.
Responsibilities
- Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, PLC, and operational equipment issues.
- Perform line changeovers and verify initial production quality.
- Complete preventive maintenance, corrective repairs, and major overhauls.
- Repair bearings, chains, belts, sprockets, switches, cylinders, valves, and related components.
- Service fillers, cappers, labelers, cartoners, bundlers, case packers, unscramblers, and process equipment.
- Identify root causes of equipment failures, defective production, and recurring downtime.
- Document repairs, production delays, and maintenance activities.
- Fabricate replacement parts using machining, welding, brazing, and pipe-fitting skills.
- Maintain spare-parts inventory.
- Train production employees and junior mechanics on equipment operation and safety.
- Follow GMP, OSHA, ISO, sanitation, and company safety requirements.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
- Four or more years of experience maintaining automated production or packaging equipment.
- Experience in food, pharmaceutical, beverage, consumer goods, or another high-speed manufacturing environment preferred.
- Strong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems.
- Ability to read machinery blueprints, electrical schematics, P&IDs, and maintenance manuals.
- Experience using hand tools, power tools, and precision-measuring devices.
- Basic computer skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in at least three of the following:
- Welding
- Machine-shop practices
- Industrial electricity
- PLCs
- Pipe fitting
Welding experience should include stick, TIG, or MIG welding of stainless and carbon steel, as well as cutting and brazing.
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 | Oak Brook, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $30–$33 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
- Beveragesunmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Blueprintsunmatched
- Brazingunmatched
- Computer Skillsunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Equipment Maintenance/Repairunmatched
- GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)unmatched
- Hand Toolsunmatched
- High School Diplomaunmatched
- Hydraulic Engineeringunmatched
- ISO (International Organization for Standardization)unmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Inventory Managementunmatched
- Machiningunmatched
- Maintenance - Electricalunmatched
- Maintenance Servicesunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- OSHAunmatched
- Preventative Maintenanceunmatched
- Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)unmatched
- Quality Assuranceunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- Safety Trainingunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Sanitationunmatched
- Schematicsunmatched
- Staff Trainingunmatched
- User Documentationunmatched
- Weldingunmatched
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