# Senior Maintenance Technician - Water Cup Production Line

> Elite Talent · Baghdad, Iraq · Full-time · Posted 2026-08-26

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

### 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.

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