Job Description

Overview

Union Beverage Packers, LLC is seeking skilled Industrial Maintenance Mechanics for their beverage manufacturing operation, with a particular need for candidates on the 3rd shift. The role involves troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining production equipment and machinery to ensure efficient operations.

Responsibilities

  • Perform scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on production equipment and plant machinery.
  • Troubleshoot mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and refrigeration issues.
  • Complete preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, and equipment repairs.
  • Diagnose equipment failures and make repairs to reduce downtime.
  • Assist with equipment installation, modification, start-up, and production changeovers.
  • Read and understand mechanical drawings, schematics, machine manuals, and technical documents.
  • Inspect equipment daily and report major problems to Maintenance leadership.
  • Support blow molders, fillers, conveyors, palletizers, packaging equipment, and other production systems.
  • Enter work orders and maintain accurate repair and maintenance records.
  • Support production during equipment breakdowns and high-pressure situations.
  • Follow all safety, GMP, food safety, quality, sanitation, and company procedures.
  • Keep the work area clean, safe, and organized.
  • Operate, monitor, adjust, and troubleshoot Sidel blow molding equipment.
  • Complete machine changeovers, production start-ups, adjustments, and major repairs.
  • Maintain Sidel systems such as SBO, Matrix, Universal, Series 2, or similar equipment.
  • Troubleshoot mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and basic electrical problems.
  • Work with Quality Control to ensure bottles meet company standards.
  • Support bottle quality, process improvements, and downtime reduction.
  • Clean, sanitize, and maintain blow molding and related production equipment.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • Industrial maintenance, mechanical, manufacturing equipment, or related technical experience.
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work independently and respond quickly to equipment problems.
  • Ability to work at least 48 hours per week.
  • Ability to work overtime, weekends, and holidays when required.
  • Ability to work safely around production equipment and moving machinery.
  • Ability to stand, walk, bend, kneel, climb, push, and pull during the shift.
  • Ability to lift at least 50 pounds.
  • Ability to work in a warm, loud, wet, and fast-paced manufacturing environment.
  • Ability to wear all required personal protective equipment.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • All shifts available, with the greatest need on 3rd shift.
  • Minimum 48 hours per week.
  • In person work location.

Benefits

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

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 $30–$41/hr across 91 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 51% 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

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Hillside, NJ, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across New Jersey as a whole we're tracking 152 other active welding openings from 108 employers. Browse welding jobs across New Jersey.

The most active employers in New Jersey at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are gpac (11), DC Fabricators (4), and UPS (3). 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 Lyndhurst at $33/hr and South Plainfield at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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