Automation Technician, Auxiliary Conveying Eq

DEPARTMENT: Maintenance

REPORTS TO: Auxiliary Maintenance Reliability Manager

POSITION DESCRIPTION: 

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Automation Technician to support the installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization of auxiliary conveying equipment within our manufacturing operations. This role is ideal for a hands-on technician with experience in automation systems, controls, and material handling equipment who enjoys solving technical challenges in a fast-paced production environment.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Install, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair auxiliary conveying systems and related automation equipment.
• Diagnose electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and control system issues to minimize downtime.
• Program, adjust, and maintain PLCs, HMIs, sensors, drives, and automated control systems.
• Perform preventive and predictive maintenance on conveyors, loaders, feeders, vacuum conveying systems, and related equipment.
• Support equipment startups, commissioning activities, and process improvements.
• Monitor system performance and recommend modifications to improve reliability, efficiency, and safety.
• Read and interpret electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with production, engineering, and maintenance teams to resolve equipment issues.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records and complete work orders in a timely manner.
• Ensure compliance with all safety regulations, company policies, and industry standards.

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Safety Responsibilities:
  • Supports a culture where employees address unsafe conditions and behaviors, make suggestions for improvements, and actively participates in implementing solutions
  • Identifies safety gaps and self-initiates corrective actions
  • Strictly adheres to plant safety, housekeeping, and 5S efforts
  • Understands, identifies, and corrects safety hazards
  • Drives a culture which empowers employees to understand and embrace what they own
• Food Safety Responsibilities:
  • 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.
  • Complies with all company food safety and quality assurance procedures
  • 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

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• ( Preferred) Associate degree, technical certification, or equivalent experience in Automation Technology, Electrical Technology, Mechatronics, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience maintaining automated industrial equipment.
• Working knowledge of PLC systems, industrial controls, VFDs, sensors, and electrical troubleshooting.
• Experience with auxiliary conveying equipment, material handling systems, or plastics processing equipment is preferred.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to read electrical and pneumatic schematics.
• Comfortable working independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and work in an industrial manufacturing environment.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with vacuum conveying systems, loaders, dryers, blenders, or centralized material handling systems.
• Knowledge of preventive maintenance programs and root cause analysis.
• Understanding of industrial networking and communication protocols.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Working knowledge of OSHA guidelines and a sharp focus on safety. Operate all equipment in a safe and effective manner.
• Ability to read, comprehend and retain information. Basic mathematical aptitude and skills.
• Ability to read blueprints and schematics.
• Tactful, courteous, polite, patient, and professional at all times.
• Good interpersonal, communication and organization skills.
• Proactive problem solver.
• Very good organization, follow-up and time management skills along with the ability to effectively multi-task.
• A high level of trustworthiness and the ability to achieve integrity on all levels.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks or projects with patience and tenacity.
• Professional image; neat clean uniforms.
• Self-motivated and self-disciplined.

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 accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any employee who needs a reasonable accommodation should contact Human Resources

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