Maintenance E&I Technician 1st shift

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Maintenance E&I Technician

Supervisor’s Title: Maintenance Manager

Department: Maintenance

Location: 4447 Carolina ave, Richmond, VA 23222

About TemperPack

TemperPack is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, with additional manufacturing facilities in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Lansing, Michigan. Founded in 2015, we design and manufacture innovative sustainable packaging solutions for cold chain shipping across food and beverages, life sciences, pet and vet, and wine as well as protective packaging for all industries. Our plant-based products give customers high-performance alternatives to EPS form and single-use plastics, developed and proven in Proving Ground, our ISTA®-certified thermal transport lab, and manufactured at three ISO 9001:2015-certified facilities.

In 2026, we became a Certified B Corporation™, joining a global community of companies independently verified to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. This certification reflects our mission to build packaging solutions that customers and end consumers feel great about using. If that mission resonates, we'd love to have you on our team.

Essential Job Functions:

• Install, maintain, and repair industrial control systems and power distribution systems including electric motors, motor control devices, and variable speed drives.
• Responsible for preventative maintenance and calibrations for all electrical, instrumentation, and process equipment.
• Maintain instrumentation including analytical, flow, pressure, and level transmitters.
• Maintain accurate equipment files such as maintenance and inventory logs, manuals, blueprints, and program revision archives.
• Operate and perform maintenance of hand tools, light, and heavy equipment.
• Read and understand manuals, blueprints, and schematics.
• Responsible for installing equipment, servicing it, troubleshooting problems and making repairs when necessary.
• Responsible for installing and maintaining electrical circuits, repairing motors and generators, fixing robotics and programming controllers.
• Responsible for carrying out equipment isolation, planned and unplanned maintenance, inspections, fault diagnosis, calibration and testing electrical equipment, instrumentation, and control systems.
• Understands how to program and troubleshoot PLC’s.
• Clearly understands LOTO.
• Must be able to perform preventative maintenance on a wide variety of electrical systems, equipment, and components including but limited to, transformers, switchgear, bus bars, high and low voltage motors and panel wiring.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• High-level efficiency of hand tools, power tools, drill presses, grinders, etc.
• Knowledge of safe working practices with rotating and high voltage machinery.
• General understanding of OSHA requirements including lock-out/tag-out, confined spaces, SDS, etc.
• Working knowledge of motor control circuits.
• Understand local, state, and national electrical codes.
• Ability to disassemble and assemble gearboxes and pumps.
• Ability to identify and measure critical tolerances or dimensions.
• Ability to know when gearboxes and pumps need alignment.
• Ability to work cohesively with other team members, and to contribute positively to the work environment.

Qualifications

Experience:

• Experience with extrusion or lamination machines or comparable manufacturing processes.
• Experience with industrial process equipment and instrumentation.
• Familiar with PLC ladder logic and editing.

Education and Certifications:

• HS diploma or GED required, Technical or Vocation School, preferred

Physical Requirements:

• Be on your feet for 10-12 hours
• Able to lift 40 pounds unassisted.
• Able to reach, bend, kneel and climb while performing repetitive tasks
• Ability to work in hot and cold environments
• Able to correctly wear PPE for entire shifts
• Able to react and respond quickly to noises, smells, visual hazards, and alerts

The maximum full-time hourly pay for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations and refers to the amount TemperPack is willing to pay at the time of this posting.

Richmond, VA: Hourly pay up to $50 for the Maintenance E&I Technician

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent and ongoing basis. This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.

*Important notice:

At this time, our company will not be engaging with external agencies or third-party vendors for recruitment services. We appreciate the interest of recruitment agencies, but kindly request that they refrain from contacting us regarding potential candidates. We are excited to build our internal recruitment capabilities and establish direct relationships with potential hires.

TemperPack sources candidates exclusively through our official careers page and reputable job boards. We do not initiate contact with applicants through unsolicited emails, social media messages, or cold calls. Any emails directly from Temperpack originate only from the temperpack.com domain name. TemperPack will never ask for payment of any kind, including application fees, gift cards, or wire transfers during the hiring process.

In select cases, we partner with professional recruiting firms, but those representatives will clearly state that they are working on behalf of TemperPack and will not request any form of payment from candidates. We encourage all applicants to rely only on opportunities posted through our official channels when exploring careers with TemperPack.

TemperPack provides Equal Employment Opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or status as a covered veteran/reservist, and any other class of protected individuals, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.E-Verify.gov.