MAINTENANCE 3rd shift
Columbus, INJob$27.79–41/hrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Packaging Corporation of America is hiring a maintenance technician for its Columbus, Indiana box plant. The role involves maintaining plant equipment in a production environment, including troubleshooting and repairing mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems. Technicians work on preventive maintenance and breakdown calls as part of a team. The position is multicraft, with training provided, and shifts are assigned according to plant needs and seniority.
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Full job description
As a Fortune 500 company, Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) is an ideas and solutions company. Our corrugated packaging business seeks to be the leader in helping our customers — large and small — package, transport and display products of all kinds. Our white paper business delivers Paper With Purpose by providing the highest level of customer service and operational excellence. We have approximately 15,000 team members in more than 100 locations in the United States that strive to meet the local needs of our customers. Our mission is to serve the needs of our customers, today and tomorrow, with products and services that exceed expectations for performance and environmental responsibility.
People • Customers • Trust
Responsibilities
This position is based at the PCA Box Plant located in Columbus, Indiana.
This position will perform a variety of maintenance tasks including diagnosing, repairing, rebuilding, or replacing mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and Pneumatic systems on plant equipment.
Technicians work as part of a team to safely perform Preventive Maintenance Activities as well as answer break down calls in a Production Environment.
All Maintenance Technician positions are multicraft and training is provided to develop these skills.
Basic Qualifications
2+ Years’ experience in successfully troubleshooting and repairing industrial machinery.
A Technical Degree in the Mechanical or Electrical Trades is a plus.
The production schedule is 3 shifts. Maintenance Technicians are placed on shifts according to plant needs and seniority. Opportunities to change shifts are available when organization changes occur or production schedules change.
Be Authorized to work in the US.
Experience in the Corrugated Packaging or Printing Industry is a plus.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
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Starting salary for position: [$27.79-$41.00] p er hour.
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Bonus: Annual – Based upon achievement of plant performance metrics.
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Paid Vacation: Two weeks weeks per calendar year. Pro-rata Vacation during the initial year of hire based upon start date within the calendar year.
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Starting salary range for position: $27.79-41.00 .
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Bonus: Annual – Based upon individual contribution and overall, Company performance.
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Paid Holidays.
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Within the first 30 days of employment, an employee (and their dependents) is eligible to enroll in certain benefit coverages -- medical, dental, and vision – and are automatically enrolled in life, AD&D, and disability coverages.
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Upon hire, an employee is automatically enrolled in the 401k plan. The plan offers both pre-tax and Roth contribution options along with employer provided matching contributions.
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Disclaimer: The Compensation and Benefits information in this posting represents PCA’s good faith and reasonable estimate of what it may pay for this position. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
PCA is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Qualified Applicants must apply at careers.packagingcorp.com to be considered.
How this job compares
Set against the 6,694 open Maintenance Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$27.79–41/hr
- Indiana median$26–31/hr83 hourly ranges
- US median$27–34/hr3,069 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $34.39/hr, is 22% above the Indiana median midpoint ($28/hr) — in the top quarter of Maintenance Technician hourly ranges in Indiana.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 220 open Maintenance Technician jobs in Indiana and 6,694 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Indiana
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Maintenance Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (3,818 postings).
- Education
- 22 of the 6,694 open Maintenance Technician jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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