Laborup

Maintenance Technician (Electronics & Automation)

Laborup  •  $34/hr  •  Jefferson City, TN (Onsite)  •  5 months ago
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Job Description

We’re seeking a skilled Multi-Craft Maintenance Technician to support a consumer packaged goods manufacturer operating high-speed filling, bottling, labeling, and packaging lines. The facility runs a mix of modern, sensor-dense, servo-driven automation alongside supporting mechanical systems, requiring technicians who are comfortable working inside electrically and electronically complex equipment.

This role is best suited for a technician with a strong electrical and electronics troubleshooting foundation, someone who can confidently diagnose sensor faults, motion issues, control-related failures, and automation-driven downtime. While all multi-craft backgrounds are welcome, hands-on experience with high-speed, automated packaging equipment is highly preferred

You’ll work across electrical distribution, controls, instrumentation, servos, robotics, pneumatics, and supporting mechanical systems to keep production lines running safely and reliably.

Compensation

  • $27 - $34 / hr

Shifts

  • All shifts available

Requirements

Responsibilities

  • Electrical & Electronics Troubleshooting: Diagnose and repair issues involving sensors, photo-eyes, proximity switches, encoders, VFDs, servos, safety circuits, relays, and control panels across high-speed production lines.
  • Automation & Motion Systems Support: Troubleshoot servo-driven filling, bottling, labeling, cartoning, and packaging equipment; support pick-and-place systems, automated transfers, and palletizing cells.
  • Instrumentation & Vision Systems: Maintain, adjust, and calibrate sensors, level controls, checkweighers, vision inspection systems, and quality-verification devices used for fill accuracy, label placement, and product presence.
  • Mechanical Equipment Maintenance: Support mechanical repairs as needed, including conveyors, gearboxes, pumps, fillers, cappers, and packaging mechanisms that interface with automated systems.
  • Pneumatic Systems: Troubleshoot valves, cylinders, regulators, air manifolds, and air-driven actuators commonly used in filling and packaging machinery.
  • Preventive & Predictive Maintenance: Execute PMs focused on electrical inspections, sensor alignment, cable integrity, motion component health, lubrication, and wear-item replacement to minimize unplanned downtime.
  • Root Cause Analysis: Independently investigate recurring electrical or automation-related issues, identify failure patterns, and implement long-term corrective actions without routine engineering escalation.

Qualifications

Required

  • Experience: 3+ years of hands-on industrial maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment
  • Electrical & Electronics Skills: Strong troubleshooting capability with 24V–480V systems, sensors, motors, drives, servos, relays, wiring, and control panels
  • Automation Exposure: Experience working on automated or semi-automated production equipment utilizing sensors, motion control, and high-speed sequences
  • Schematics & Documentation: Ability to read electrical prints, wiring diagrams, and control schematics
  • Troubleshooting Mindset: Independent problem-solver capable of diagnosing issues on the floor and restoring equipment to operation efficiently

Preferred

  • High-Speed Packaging Experience: Background supporting filling, bottling, labeling, cartoning, or packaging lines in CPG, food, beverage, or similar industries
  • Controls & PLCs: Allen-Bradley / Rockwell systems (ControlLogix, CompactLogix); PLC I/O and fault diagnostics; minor logic edits a plus
  • Robotics & Motion: Experience with servo-driven systems, pick-and-place units, palletizers, or robotic packaging cells
  • Instrumentation & Vision: Hands-on experience with inspection cameras, checkweighers, level controls, or other inline quality systems
  • CMMS: Familiarity with digital maintenance tracking systems

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision
  • 401(k) with match
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About Laborup

Laborup is the #1 AI powered talent platform for America’s industrial workforce. We use AI to create jobs, not take them away. We help HR and plant leaders hire and keep the skilled workers who keep plants running: machinists, welders, maintenance techs, operators, industrial electricians, and engineers. USA Today called us the “LinkedIn for blue collar workers,” and Forbes profiled our work in “How AI Is Solving America’s 1 Trillion Dollar Manufacturing Labor Crisis.”

Today we work with manufacturers from 50 person shops to large public companies with tens of thousands of employees, and the story is the same everywhere. It is hard to find talent, hard to keep good people, and staffing costs keep rising. In a market where filling critical industrial roles can take months and turnover is constant, Laborup helps teams move qualified workers from first contact to on site interview in days instead of weeks and keep them on the floor longer.

Most of the workers our customers need are not on LinkedIn or the usual job boards. Laborup uses AI to find this hidden workforce, call and text them, screen and qualify them, build real profiles, and match them directly to the plants and roles where they can succeed. For workers, that means real, permanent roles at serious manufacturers, not one off gigs. For companies, it is durable infrastructure for hiring and retention at scale in a labor market that will stay tight for years.

We work across nuclear, defense, and advanced manufacturing, as well as sectors like aerospace, automotive, and food production. Teams that use Laborup hire 5 to 10 times faster, see around 3 times better retention, and cut cost per hire by up to 50 to 70 percent. That turns into fewer empty shifts, fewer missed orders, more stable teams, and more capacity without more headache.

We are building the modern talent system for America’s industrial base with a simple long term goal: put a billion industrial workers to work in good jobs that matter.

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Knoxville
Year Founded
Unknown
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