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Overview

At Union Beverage Packers, LLC, the maintenance team is crucial for ensuring safe and consistent production. The Beverage Plant Equipment Maintenance Technician role focuses on minimizing downtime and enhancing equipment reliability in a fast-paced beverage manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Own scheduled and unscheduled maintenance for production equipment and plant machinery.
  • Diagnose and repair issues across mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and refrigeration.
  • Execute preventive and corrective maintenance to extend asset life.
  • Reduce downtime through fast, accurate troubleshooting and repair.
  • Support installations, modifications, commissioning, and changeovers.
  • Read and apply mechanical drawings, schematics, manuals, and technical references.
  • Conduct daily inspections and communicate major findings to Maintenance leadership.
  • Provide hands-on support for blow molders, fillers, conveyors, palletizers, and packaging systems.
  • Open and close work orders and maintain precise records of work performed.
  • Respond effectively during breakdowns and high-pressure scenarios.
  • Model safety, GMP, food safety, quality, sanitation, and company policies.
  • Keep the work environment clean, organized, and safe.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • Industrial maintenance or related mechanical/manufacturing equipment background.
  • Sharp troubleshooting skills and a bias for action.
  • Independence and urgency when equipment issues arise.
  • Ability to commit to at least 48 hours per week and work overtime/weekends/holidays as needed.
  • Safe work habits around moving production machinery.
  • Physical capability to stand, walk, bend, kneel, climb, push, and pull.
  • Lift at least 50 pounds.
  • Comfort with warm, loud, wet, fast-paced environments.
  • Willingness to wear all required PPE.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • PTO
  • 401k
  • 401k matching
  • Training and growth opportunities

Additional Information

  • Pay: $25.00–$45.00 per hour, based on experience
  • Schedule: All shifts are open; largest need is on 3rd shift
  • Hours: Minimum 48 hours per week
  • Job Type: Full-time
  • Overtime: Required as needed
  • Work Location: In person

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
PTO
401k
401k matching
Training and growth opportunities
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How this job compares in Hillside, NJ

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $35/hr median for welding jobs across New Jersey, whose middle half runs $29–$40/hr across 114 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 49% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Hillside, NJ

Hillside, NJ is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 184 other active welding openings from 131 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across New Jersey.

The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are gpac (13), Phillips Tank & Structure (7), and Carvana (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within New Jersey, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Northvale at $40/hr, Newark at $38/hr, and South Plainfield at $30/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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