Senior Maintenance Mechanic

Aerotek
Longmont, CO

Overnight Maintenance Mechanic - $42/hr Direct Hire Position

Location: Longmont, CO

Pay: $42/hour

Job Type: Direct Hire | Permanent

Position Overview

We are seeking a skilled Maintenance Mechanic to support preventative and corrective maintenance across all plant equipment, including conveyor, processing, and packaging systems. This role is critical to maintaining safe, reliable operations in a GMP-regulated food manufacturing environment, ensuring equipment performance, food safety, and regulatory compliance.

The ideal candidate has strong mechanical troubleshooting abilities, a safety-first mindset, and hands-on experience maintaining industrial manufacturing equipment.

Key Responsibilities
  • Perform preventative and corrective maintenance, including work orders, inspections, and lubrication
  • Inspect, troubleshoot, repair, and replace processing and packaging equipment to minimize downtime
  • Maintain and repair conveyor systems (belts, bearings, motors, gearboxes, mechanical drives)
  • Troubleshoot pneumatic systems (air cylinders, valves, diverters, hoses)
  • Complete equipment changeovers, startups, shutdowns, and line clearances
  • Support sanitation and equipment readiness for food safety compliance
  • Accurately document maintenance activities using computer-based systems (CMMS)
  • Read and interpret blueprints, mechanical drawings, manuals, and work instructions
  • Follow all OSHA, EPA, GMP, safety, and Lockout/Tagout procedures
Required Skills & Experience
  • Proven mechanical maintenance experience in an industrial or manufacturing setting
  • Strong understanding of preventative and corrective maintenance practices
  • Ability to troubleshoot and repair mechanical and pneumatic systems
  • Experience working with conveyors and packaging equipment
  • Comfortable following SOPs, GMPs, work orders, and technical documentation
  • Strong safety awareness in a regulated environment
Preferred Qualifications
  • 3+ years of industrial mechanical maintenance experience
  • (2+ years considered with food manufacturing experience)
  • Prior GMP or food manufacturing experience
  • Exposure to PLC troubleshooting
  • Welding and fabrication experience
  • Knowledge of hydraulics
  • Strong computer and documentation skills (CMMS experience preferred)
Why Join Our Team
  • Up to 4 weeks of vacation in your first year
  • Very low-cost medical benefits
  • Brand-new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility
  • Clean, modern, and organized work environment
  • Schedule designed to support work-life balance
Work Schedule & Environment
  • 2-2-3 rotating schedule
  • Night shift: 6:00 PM – 6:30 AM
  • Initial training on day shift for approximately 60 days
  • Climate-controlled, newly built facility with modern equipment
Compensation
  • $87,360/year ($42/hour)
Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of LONGMONT, CO.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $87360.00 - $87360.00/yr.

Offers comprehensive employee benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional well-being, with many benefits starting on the first day of employment. Key offerings include low-premium medical, dental, and vision insurance, a robust 401(k) match with immediate vesting, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, and generous paid time off.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in LONGMONT,CO.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on May 15, 2026.

About Aerotek:

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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