Maintenance Technician-Level III

Position Summary

The Maintenance Technician Level III is a senior, hands-on maintenance professional responsible for troubleshooting, repairing, maintaining, and improving manufacturing equipment and facility systems. This role is expected to spend the majority of the workday on the production floor, actively diagnosing equipment issues, completing repairs, executing preventive maintenance, and supporting production uptime. The ideal candidate combines formal technical education with strong practical experience in mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and motor-driven systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on troubleshooting, repair, adjustment, and maintenance of production equipment, machinery, and supporting systems.
• Diagnose mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic failures and determine root causes of recurring equipment problems.
• Troubleshoot, repair, replace, and support electric motors, drives, bearings, gearboxes, sensors, actuators, rebuild pumps on potting machine, and related machine components.
• Execute preventive maintenance (PM) activities according to established schedules, procedures, and safety requirements.
• Create/open, document, update, and close PMs and maintenance work orders in the company maintenance system or CMMS.
• Document repairs, parts used, failure causes, corrective actions, equipment condition, and follow-up requirements accurately and on time.
• Respond to equipment breakdowns with urgency and work directly with production personnel to safely restore equipment to operation.
• Support equipment installation, commissioning, modifications, continuous-improvement activities, and reliability improvements.
• Read and interpret mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, pneumatic diagrams, hydraulic diagrams, equipment manuals, and technical documentation.
• Perform routine inspections to identify wear, abnormal conditions, safety concerns, and potential failures before they cause downtime.
• Assist with spare-parts identification and communicate critical spare-parts needs to the appropriate team.
• Follow lockout/tagout (LOTO), electrical safety, machine guarding, and all applicable plant safety procedures.
• Provide technical guidance and practical support to Level I and Level II maintenance technicians when required.
• Maintain clean, organized work areas and ensure tools and maintenance equipment are properly cared for.

Required Qualifications

• Technical college, trade school, apprenticeship, associate degree, or equivalent formal technical training in industrial maintenance, mechatronics, electromechanical technology, mechanical technology, or a related field.
• Strong working knowledge of pneumatics, hydraulics, industrial mechanics, and electrical/mechanical troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting and repairing electric motors and motor-driven equipment.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and ability to perform hands-on repairs using appropriate hand tools, power tools, meters, and diagnostic equipment.
• Experience with preventive maintenance programs and maintenance work-order systems, including opening, documenting, completing, and closing PMs.
• Ability to independently troubleshoot equipment failures using a structured problem-solving approach.
• Ability to work safely in an active manufacturing environment and remain physically engaged on the production floor.
• Working with Siemens HMI panels and PLC’s
• Repairing molds changing sealing inserts and repairing test pillars. Keeping molds in good working condition.
• Keep up test calibration on all test machines.

Preferred Manufacturing Experience

• Experience in cable, wire, wire-harness, connector, or electrical-component manufacturing is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with cable-processing equipment such as cutting, stripping, crimping, termination, testing, molding, or related automated/semi-automated equipment is a plus.
• Experience supporting high-mix manufacturing equipment and working closely with Production, Engineering, and Quality teams.

Core Competencies

Hands-on technical execution• Troubleshooting and root-cause analysis • Equipment reliability •Preventive maintenance discipline• Mechanical and electrical aptitude • Safety ownership •Sense of urgency • Documentation• Teamwork •Continuous improvement

Physical / Work Requirements

• Regularly work on the manufacturing floor around operating machinery and industrial equipment.
• Ability to stand, walk, bend, kneel, reach, and use tools for extended periods as required by maintenance activities.
• Ability to safely lift and handle tools, components, and equipment within company-established lifting requirements. Able to lift up 50Lbs.
• Availability to support production needs, equipment breakdowns, planned maintenance, special projects and occasional overtime as required.

Work Hours & Location

• First Shift: 6am – 2:30pm (1 available position)
• Second Shift: 2:30pm – 11:00pm (1 available position)
• Suwanee, GA

Level III expectation: advanced technical knowledge combined with strong hands-on execution and ownership of equipment reliability.