Industrial Maintenance & Repair Technician

Industrial Maintenance & Repair Technician

Role

Industrial Maintenance & Repair Technician

Location

Sunrise, FL

Rate

$36/hr

Work type

Hourly Contract

Industrial Maintenance & Repair Technician contract in Sunrise, FL. $36/hr · 6 months.

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.

Equipment and platforms on this work: Siemens.

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