Manufacturing Equipment Maintenance Specialist (PLC/Servo)

Job Description

Job Description

Keep production moving. Elevate reliability.

Join a team focused on building a culture of safety, quality, and trust. Your mission is straightforward: protect uptime. You’ll blend hands-on repair work with proactive strategies—digging into schematics, tracing faults across electro-mechanical systems, and putting long-term preventive maintenance plans into action. You’ll document with precision, collaborate across departments, and step in to lead tasks when called upon.

Role highlights

• Independently diagnose and repair production/plant equipment utilizing schematics, manuals, and drawings.
• Troubleshoot electrical and electro-mechanical issues; implement preventive maintenance strategies to reduce repeat failures.
• Identify faulty parts, create requisitions with correct nomenclature, and follow storeroom withdrawal/return procedures.
• Operate motorized/peripheral equipment; use hand tools and basic machine shop equipment to complete high-quality repairs.
• Maintain ISO-aligned records and adhere to established maintenance procedures within ERP and related systems.
• Lead co-workers on assigned tasks; uphold a clean, safe working environment.
• Fulfill shift-specific duties assigned by the maintenance supervisor; take on other tasks as needed.

Grow with advanced competencies

• Administrative: Accurate data posting across ERP/peripheral platforms.
• Communication & Teamwork: Build openness, honesty, trust, and teamwork; manage multiple priorities calmly.
• Safety: Engage fully in company safety programs, policies, and procedures.
• Quality: Develop/maintain ISO-compliant processes.
• Technical Knowledge: Advanced comprehension of the full product/process lifecycle—from concept to commercialization.
• Maintenance/Repair: High mechanical aptitude; deep knowledge of manufacturing production methods, procedures, and equipment capabilities.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of related experience in industrial or manufacturing maintenance.
• High school diploma/equivalent required; vocational or trade education in electro-mechanical disciplines preferred.
• Mechanical pre-employment test required; must pass a multiple-choice exam with a handwritten section.
• Proficiency using precision instruments (micrometers, calipers).
• Effective speaker/presenter capable of running productive meetings.

Technical toolkit

• 120/208/240/480 Voltage Systems
• Electrical Troubleshooting
• Electrical Repair
• Pneumatics Troubleshooting
• Maintenance and Repair Skills

Automation platforms

• Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) (Fanuc, Allen Bradley, Siemens)
• Servo Motors

Physical requirements (verbatim)

**ADA – Essential Functions: **

Must be able to:

• Work a 8, 10 and/or 12-hour shift, standing and walking for extended periods

• Climb

• Heed safety warnings, devices and alarms

• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing

• Lift and carry products weighing up to 50 lbs.

• Possess an adequate ability to do problem solving and establish cause and effect relationships in an office and/or manufacturing environment.

**ADA – Essential Functions: **

Must be able to:

• Work a 8, 10 and/or 12-hour shift, standing and walking for extended periods

• Climb

• Heed safety warnings, devices and alarms

• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing

• Lift and carry products weighing up to 50 lbs.

• Possess an adequate ability to do problem solving and establish cause and effect relationships in an office and/or manufacturing environment.