Preventive Maintenance Technician

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, execute, and continuously improve a preventive maintenance program across stamping, polishing, finishing, plating, and packaging equipment, including PM schedules, inspection routines, and standard work.
• Perform scheduled inspections, lubrication, adjustments, and component replacement on hydraulic presses, drop hammers, progressive presses, plating/polishing equipment, and packaging machinery.
• Diagnose and repair both mechanical and electrical faults hydraulics, pneumatics, drives, motors, controls, and basic PLC/relay logic, restoring equipment to running condition with minimal disruption.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records: work performed, parts used, downtime causes, and recurring failure patterns, to drive root-cause analysis and PM improvements.
• Identify chronic problem equipment and recommend repairs, rebuilds, or upgrades, partnering with management on larger interventions.
• Manage spare parts and critical-component inventory for key machines so the right parts are on hand when needed.
• Follow and help expand plant safety procedures, including lockout/tagout (LOTO); become an authorized employee on assigned equipment.
• Verify that equipment operates in a safe, compliant condition machine guarding properly mounted, emergency stops functional, and machines meeting applicable OSHA, CE, UL, and other regulatory standards and correct or escalate deficiencies before equipment is returned to service.

What You Bring

• 3+ years of industrial/manufacturing maintenance experience (not facilities or property maintenance).
• Demonstrated ability across both mechanical and electrical systems hydraulics, pneumatics, mechanical drivetrains, motors, electrical troubleshooting, and basic controls/PLC familiarity.
• Experience with preventive and predictive maintenance practices; able to build and run a PM program, not just react to breakdowns.
• Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills with the judgment to find root cause, not just restore a machine.
• Comfort documenting work and using basic systems to track maintenance activity.