Maintenance Supervisor - Water Cup Production Line

Job Description: Maintenance Supervisor – Water Cup Production Line

Department: Engineering and Maintenance
Industry: Packaged Water / Water Cup Manufacturing
Employment Type: Full-time
Number of Vacancies: 1
Reports To: Factory Manager / Operations Manager
Direct Reports: Senior Maintenance Technicians and Mechanical Maintenance Technicians

Preferred Nationality: Indian/Iranian

Job Purpose

Lead the maintenance function for high-speed thermoforming/Form-Fill-Seal water cup production lines. The Maintenance Supervisor will develop maintenance plans, manage the technical team, respond hands-on to major breakdowns, improve machine reliability, and ensure critical spare parts are available.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, preventive, and shutdown maintenance plans.
• Assign maintenance activities and supervise their safe, timely completion.
• Lead troubleshooting during major breakdowns and recurring machine failures.
• Conduct root-cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Reduce unplanned downtime and improve equipment reliability and availability.
• Coordinate maintenance schedules and machine interventions with production.
• Prepare maintenance checklists, SOPs, equipment histories, and technical reports.
• Monitor equipment condition and recommend repairs, overhauls, or replacements.
• Develop critical spare-parts lists for the complete production line.
• Forecast spare-parts requirements and establish minimum and maximum stock levels.
• Monitor spare-parts consumption, failure frequency, and component service life.
• Prepare accurate technical specifications for purchasing spare parts and services.
• Evaluate the technical suitability of proposed replacement components.
• Train senior technicians, mechanical technicians, and selected production employees.
• Ensure compliance with safety, food-hygiene, and lockout/tagout requirements.
• Maintain proper housekeeping and tool control during maintenance activities.

Requirements

Required Technical Experience

Candidates must have direct, hands-on experience maintaining thermoforming/FFS machines that form, fill, and seal water cups, including:

• Plastic-film feeding, tracking, and tension control
• Heating and thermoforming stations
• Forming molds, vacuum systems, and cooling arrangements
• Water-filling mechanisms, nozzles, pumps, and volume adjustment
• Lid-film feeding and alignment systems
• Heat-sealing temperature, pressure, and timing control
• Cutting, punching, and cup-discharge systems
• Pneumatic cylinders, valves, regulators, and air preparation
• Bearings, chains, sprockets, timing belts, shafts, and gearboxes
• Linear guides, conveyors, lubrication systems, and machine alignment
• Mechanical synchronization of high-speed production equipment

Experience with Thermonox, Beta-Pak, or technically similar high-speed machines is strongly preferred.

Required Qualifications

• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Industrial Maintenance, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 7–10 years of relevant maintenance experience.
• Demonstrated supervisory experience in a production environment.
• Strong mechanical troubleshooting and root-cause-analysis ability.
• Ability to prepare preventive maintenance plans, SOPs, checklists, and reports.
• Working knowledge of maintenance KPIs, downtime analysis, and spare-parts control.
• Ability to read mechanical drawings, manuals, parts diagrams, and specifications.
• Willingness to work hands-on and respond to breakdowns outside normal hours when required.

Critical Selection Requirement

General maintenance experience alone is not sufficient. Candidates whose experience is limited to bottled-water filling lines, RO plants, automotive maintenance, building maintenance, utilities, or unrelated factory equipment will not qualify unless they also have substantial direct experience with thermoform/FFS water cup production machines.