Industrial Maintenance & Repair Technician

⏰Hourly ContractThrough Apr 7, 2027

Job Description

Part-Time Industrial Maintenance & Repair Technician (Independent Contractor), Packaging Machinery, Sunrise, FL

Location: Sunrise, FL (Broward County). On-site only.

Type: Part-time, 1099 independent contractor. On-call breakdown support plus scheduled preventive-maintenance (PM) visits.

Start: Immediate

About the role

We're a packaging/co-packing facility in Sunrise, FL, and we need a hands-on technician on a part-time contract basis to keep our packaging lines running. You'll fix breakdowns when they happen, run regular PM visits, and help reduce downtime on our filling, heat-sealing and packaging equipment. This suits an experienced field service tech, a maintenance mechanic who wants steady side work, or a small repair business.

What you'll do

- Respond to on-call breakdowns on packaging machinery and get lines running again quickly.

- Troubleshoot and repair heat-sealing systems: sealing jaws/heads, cartridge and band heaters, thermocouples/RTDs, temperature controllers, sealing pressure and dwell settings.

- Diagnose and repair mechanical problems: bearings, chains and sprockets, belts, gearboxes, cams, guides, change parts, alignment and timing.

- Service pneumatic systems: cylinders, solenoid valves and manifolds, regulators, FRLs, vacuum generators, fittings and tubing, plus air leaks.

- Troubleshoot industrial automation on Siemens PLC and HMI controls: PLC I/O, photo-eyes and proximity sensors, encoders, servo and stepper drives, VFDs, HMIs, safety circuits and interlocks.

- Do scheduled preventive maintenance (lubrication, inspections, wear-part replacement, calibration checks) and keep a simple service log for each machine.

- Recommend and source spare parts, and suggest fixes that stop repeat failures.

- Show operators basic adjustments and changeovers when needed.

Required

- 3+ years repairing industrial or packaging machinery (filling, sealing, wrapping, bagging, cartoning, case packing, or similar).

- Proven troubleshooting across mechanical, pneumatic and electrical/electro-mechanical systems.

- Ability to read electrical schematics, pneumatic diagrams and machine manuals.

- Comfortable with heat-seal equipment: temperature control, heater/thermocouple replacement, jaw alignment.

- Your own hand tools, multimeter and basic diagnostic tools.

- Reliable transportation, and you can reach Sunrise, FL quickly for on-call work.

- Safe work habits, including lockout/tagout (LOTO).

Nice to have

- Siemens PLC and HMI experience is strongly preferred (our equipment runs Siemens): S7-1200/1500 or S7-300, TIA Portal / STEP 7, WinCC HMI panels, online monitoring, forcing and diagnosing I/O, program backup and restore.

- HMI and servo-drive experience. Fault codes, homing, parameter backup and restore.

- Electrical work up to 480V 3-phase: motors, contactors, starters, VFDs, control transformers. NFPA 70E awareness.

- Food or beverage packaging experience: form-fill-seal, cup/container fill-seal, nitrogen-flush equipment, coders, checkweighers, conveyors.

- Familiarity with GMP, food-safety and sanitation practices in a production environment.

- Basic fabrication or machining, plus experience sourcing replacement parts.

- Bilingual English/Spanish.

Contract details

- Independent contractor (1099). You set your own methods and supply your own tools and transportation.

- On-call breakdown support during production hours, with a quick response time expected (tell us yours).

- Scheduled PM visits at mutually agreed times.

- Variable part-time hours, with room to grow.

- Immediate start.

Qualified applicants will be contacted for a short phone screen and an on-site walkthrough.

Requirements that applicants must meet to be eligible

Yes = Able to Apply, No = Not Able to Apply

US Work Authorization RequiredRequired
S7-1200, S7-1500, S7-300, WinCC HMISiemens PLC/HMI troubleshooting (TIA Portal / STEP 7, WinCC); industrial maintenance, mechanical, pneumatics, packaging machinery, field service.Good-to-Have
Certificate of Insurance (COI): A current COI must be uploaded to your profile before starting any project. This is essential for compliance with our insurance policy and to protect all parties involved. The minimum coverage required is $1,000,000 in General Liability. If you do not have or wish to obtain the necessary insurance, a deduction of 5% will be included from your billable time each week. Please obtain your COI through the following process if you don't have a current COI already: Visit Hiscox Insurance. Enter your Zip Code to specify your state. Select/Type the nature of your work, for example, "Controls Systems Integration/Automation." Indicate the structure of your business (Corporation, LLC, etc.). You can select 'Other' if you don't yet have a company started. Choose the date for your coverage to start. Ensure you select a minimum of $1,000,000 General Liability Coverage. Complete the Business Basics fields and follow the prompts to receive your quote. Remember, quotes from Hiscox are valid for 30 days, and they offer assistance via chat and phone round the clock. Timesheets and Expense Reports: These must be submitted by 9 AM on Monday mornings. Adherence to this deadline is crucial for maintaining our commitment to clients and for the timely processing of invoices. Please note the following late fee policy: A late submission beyond the deadline will incur a fee. Starting from Tuesday, a $100 late fee will be applied. An additional $50 fee will be charged for each day beyond the initial late period. Timesheets must be signed by the customer representative before submission. Expense reports must be signed by the customer representative and include receipts.
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