Senior Maintenance Technician - Water Cup Production Line

Industry: Packaged Water / Water Cup Manufacturing

Employment Type: Full-time

Number of Vacancies: 2

Reports To: Maintenance Supervisor

Supervisory Responsibility: Shift maintenance team when assigned

Preferred Nationality: Indian/Iranian

Job Purpose

Provide senior-level, hands-on maintenance support for high-speed thermoforming/Form-Fill-Seal water cup production lines. The Senior Maintenance Technician will lead shift maintenance work, diagnose complex faults, perform precision adjustments, and support preventive and major maintenance activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement daily, weekly, monthly, and shutdown maintenance plans.
• Lead technicians during scheduled maintenance and production-line breakdowns.
• Diagnose complex mechanical faults and production-related machine problems.
• Perform machine setup, changeovers, adjustment, alignment, and synchronization.
• Inspect machine condition and identify developing faults before failure occurs.
• Carry out preventive, corrective, and major maintenance activities.
• Escalate recurring faults and support root-cause analysis.
• Record completed work, findings, parts used, and follow-up actions.
• Identify future maintenance requirements and critical spare-parts needs.
• Monitor recurring component failures and recommend technical improvements.
• Assist with installation, commissioning, and overhaul work when required.
• Train mechanical technicians and selected production operators.
• Coordinate with production personnel during adjustment and test runs.
• Assume responsibility for the maintenance team when the supervisor is unavailable.
• Follow food-safety, personal-safety, lockout/tagout, and housekeeping requirements.

Required Technical Experience

Candidates must have practical experience across the complete thermoforming/FFS water cup process

• Film feeding, tracking, tensioning, and alignment
• Heating-zone inspection and adjustment
• Thermoforming stations, molds, vacuum, and cooling
• Filling systems, pumps, valves, nozzles, and volume adjustment
• Lid-film feeding, tracking, and tension control
• Heat-sealing temperature, pressure, timing, and alignment
• Cutting, punching, and cup-discharge mechanisms
• Pneumatic cylinders, solenoid valves, regulators, and air systems
• Bearings, chains, sprockets, timing belts, shafts, and gearboxes
• Linear guides, conveyors, lubrication systems, and mechanical alignment

Candidates must be able to troubleshoot

• Poor or incomplete cup forming
• Film tracking and alignment problems
• Water leakage and inaccurate filling volume
• Weak, incomplete, or uneven sealing
• Cutting and punching defects
• Mechanical timing and synchronization problems
• Abnormal vibration, noise, and overheating
• Repeated stoppages and intermittent machine faults

Experience with Thermonox, Beta-Pak, or technically similar high-speed machines is strongly preferred.

Required Qualifications

• Technical diploma or equivalent qualification in Mechanical Maintenance, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field.
• Minimum 5–7 years of direct experience on thermoforming/FFS cup production machines.
• Ability to lead maintenance work during shifts and breakdowns.
• Strong practical knowledge of precision fitting, alignment, and adjustment.
• Ability to interpret machine manuals, drawings, and spare-parts diagrams.
• Basic ability to prepare maintenance records and technical reports.
• Ability to train and guide junior technicians.
• Willingness to work shifts and respond to urgent breakdowns.

Critical Selection Requirement

Applicants must have direct experience maintaining machines that form, fill, and seal plastic water cups. Experience limited to bottled-water lines, RO systems, vehicles, buildings, utilities, or general factory maintenance does not meet the position’s core requirement.