About this role
Job Description: Senior Maintenance Technician – Water Cup Production Line
Department: Engineering and Maintenance
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.
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.