Maintenance Mechanic

Maintenance Mechanic

Location: On-site, East-Boston, MA

Type: Full time/hourly

Shift: Day shift with some flexibility to work nights and weekends

Pay: $25/hr - flexibility depending on experience

The Mission:

The primary mission of this role is to provide technical and repair support to the operations team as it relates to production and processing equipment including but not limited to pumps, valves, air distribution systems, packers, cartoners, fillers and heat exchangers.  

Day shift with some flexibility to work other shifts and weekends. This position will support the packaging and production lines. The job entails installing and setting up equipment, training operators to use the equipment, maintaining equipment, troubleshooting, and repairing machines. Understand, support and execute all work in a safe manner using the established procedures, methods and safe working requirements.

Responsibilities:

- Provide technical support in a complex production environment.

- Assist on planning and scheduling predictive, preventive and reactive maintenance activities. Maintain, troubleshoot and perform tasks on all equipment.

- Support all production operators, systems, & tools to achieve all throughput and uptime targets.

- Suggest/Initiate/Support process improvement efforts within the production/packaging and manufacturing operations areas.

- Partner with packaging and production training on developing team members to be able to make minor line adjustments. Provide hands-on training and support.

Qualifications:

Must have: 

- 3 years of hands-on industry maintenance experience or 2 year technical degree

- Strong computer skills required (microsoft/google suite, CMMS)

- Ability to lift, push and pull a minimum of 50 pounds on a frequent basis

- Employment contingent upon successful completion of a background check

Nice to have: 

- Experience with computer networking (routers, Ethernet, switches, etc.)

- Knowledge of the following systems/equipment:

- Process Pumps 

- Cartoners/Packers/Palletizers

- Liquid filling equipment

- Chiller equipment

- Compressors

- Minor fabrication

What we offer:

- 16 PTO days your first year

- Paid holidays 

- Paid sick days 

- Paid bereavement days

- Paid parental leave

- 401k with company match

- Health & dental insurance from day 1

- Company provided short term disability

- Annual PPE stipend

- Cider allowance (how big is your fridge?)

About Downeast Cider

We aspire to build an enduring company with a world-class brand, known as an extraordinary place to work. It’s been 12 years since our first batches of unfiltered cider were fermented in the dorms of Bates College, Maine, and while we’ve gained 231 new teammates and 1.6 million cases of tasty drinks - with a growing assortment beyond cider - we remain 100% founder-owned. We’re a scrappy team that enjoys the hard work of creating a company because we get to work on fun things with people we like.

We like to hire the way we like our cider, unfiltered. With the understanding that we can learn and grow from each other’s differences, we are proud to hire regardless of gender, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, or anything else that makes us who we are.