Industrial Maintenance Mechanic

Industrial Maintenance Mechanic| Hiring Immediately | Athens, GA

Available Shift:

8-hour shifts with rotating schedule

1st Shift: 7A-3P 2nd Shift: 3P-11A 

Rotation between the two schedules is required

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Compensation:

• Starting pay rate from $31.44 per hour
• $5,000 Sign-on bonus
• Add EXTRA money to your paycheck by referring friends & family
• Eligible for annual & skill-based wage increases

Benefits Include: 

• Multiple medical and prescription drug coverage options
  • Choice of an Employer-Funded Health Care Account (HCA) or Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Integrated healthcare programs – telemedicine, chronic condition, weight management and msk health
• Multiple dental and vision plan coverage options
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
  • Healthcare, dependent care
• Company provided life and accidental death, short and long-term disability programs
• Supplemental life, accidental death, and disability buy-up options
• Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance
• Employee well-being reward program
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Child and family care support program
• Educational assistance and tuition reimbursement program
• Employee discount program
• 401(K) with company match (Eligible to participate from day one (1) with 100% vesting in all company provided money immediately)

Our Social Responsibility platform features a robust, employee-led Give Back program, which includes a matching gifts plan, community grants initiative, and our annual Company-wide Month of Action campaign. With each of these initiatives, our employees are empowered and equipped to give back to their communities and support the non-profits important to them and their families. Through our Give Back program, we own our commitment to Social Responsibility and live our purpose of Packaging a Better Future.

Job Description:

Evergreen Packaging in Athens, GA is seeking a Maintenance Mechanic. Note - All maintenance mechanics must pass a Ramsey Mechanical Aptitude test. 

• Complies with facility safety requirements by adhering to proper PPE rules by wearing hairnets, ear plugs, gloves, aprons, safety glasses, steel toed safety shoes and any other items required for working safely on the job.
• Inspects  defective equipment and diagnoses malfunctions, using testing instruments manuals and similar guides using tools ranging from common hand and power tools, such as hammers, hoists, saws, drills, and wrenches, too precision measuring instruments.
• Disassembles defective or to perform preventive maintenance of equipment. Process is reversed once repair/reconditioning is complete. May also involve facility maintenance.  
• Perform routine preventive maintenance to ensure that machines continue to run smoothly, building systems operate efficiently, or do not deteriorate.
• Reconditions and replaces parts, bearing, gears, etc.  Installs special functional and structural parts as well. This may include facility maintenance (minor carpentry/basic work). Also inspects, operates, and/or tests machinery or equipment to diagnose machine malfunctions.
• Change oil, lubricants, batteries, checks compressors, power supplies, and conveyors of machinery and equipment, as well as, determines mechanical problems and determines how to correct them, checking blueprints, repair manuals, or parts catalogs, as necessary.
• Inspects and verifies dimensions and clearances of parts, conveyors, and miscellaneous housing ensuring conformance to factory specifications. Assembles, installs, or pipe systems, plumbing, machinery, or equipment.
• May weld and cut parts using mig/arc welding and cutting equipment. Inspect manual drives and belts, check fluid levels, replace filters, or perform other maintenance actions, following checklists.
• Adjust functional parts of devices or control instruments, using hand tools, levels, plumb bobs, or straightedges.
• General housekeeping of maintenance area, which may also include general upkeep of tools and equipment used for repair work including, cleaning or lubricating shafts, bearings, gears, or other parts of machinery.
• Install, diagnose, and monitor various production lines/press equipment. Install equipment to facilitate production, as well as repair or replace defective equipment parts, using hand tools and power tools, and reassemble equipment.
• Comply with facility safety requirements including wearing the required PPE and following all of the safety rules and procedures.
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Qualifications:

• Minimum High School diploma/GED
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in maintenance
• MUST be able to pass Ramsay Assessment (testing knowledge of mechanical skills
• Machining skills (work on a mill, lath, grinder, saw, drill, etc.) a plus
• Welding experience (tig, stick)
• Proficient at reading/interpreting blue prints and schematics (electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic)
• Plumbing skills (threading, soldering joints, etc.)
• Basic understanding, troubleshooting and experience with Mechanical Systems (gears, pulleys, chains, belts, shafts, industrial gear boxes, water pumps, air compressors, HVAC experience A+)
• Basic understanding, troubleshooting and experience with Electrical Systems (AC circuits-motors and drives, DC circuits-motors and drives, 480 Volts 3 phase, transformers, control power, relays)
• Basic understanding, troubleshooting and experience with Pneumatic Systems (valves, controls, pressure, flow, cylinders)
• Basic understanding, troubleshooting and experience with Hydraulic Systems (valves, controls, pressure, flow, cylinders)
• Basic understanding, troubleshooting and experience with Electronic Systems (controls, ladder logic, PLC programming, C programming A+)
• Good attendance and work ethic.
• Ability to work independently and prioritize work. Self-motivated
• Ability to stand 8 hours a day
• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs frequently
• Must be able to wear protective equipment as required
• Able and willing to work rotating swing shift, overtime, and occasional weekends

Pactiv Evergreen Inc. (NASDAQ: PTVE) is a leading manufacturer and distributor of fresh foodservice and food merchandising products and fresh beverage cartons in North America and certain international markets. It supplies its products to a broad and diversified mix of companies, including full service restaurants and quick service restaurants, foodservice distributors, supermarkets, grocery and healthy eating retailers, other food stores, food and beverage producers, food packers and food processors. To learn more about the company, please go to the company website at pactivevergreen.com.

72 miles east of Atlanta, Athens is a city in northeast Georgia. It's known for its antebellum architecture. It marks the start of the state's Antebellum Trail of historic Civil War towns. The T.R.R. Cobb House, the mansion of a mid-19th-century lawyer, has period furniture and exhibits related to Southern history. Nearby, the Taylor Grady House is a Greek Revival mansion, and the Church-Waddell-Brumby House dates from the early 19th century.

The Evergreen Packaging Athens Carton Converting Facility, now known as Pactiv Evergreen,  is located in Athens, Georgia, which is also home to the University of Georgia and is approximately an hour from the city of Atlanta and its cosmopolitan amenities. Opened in 1951 and employing 163 team members, the facility ships over two billion gable top cartons annually. Athens prints and die cuts refrigerated gable top cartons for a variety of global brands found in retail groceries throughout the US.

Pactiv Evergreen is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.  Pactiv Evergreen is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, religion, creed, age national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, veteran status or other characteristics or statuses protected by law.  For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please call (847) 482-4320 or email TalentHelp@Pactiv.com.

 All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines and applicable laws.