Industrial Maintenance Technician (Industrial Maintenance Tech)
Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial EquipmentDescription
Install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain industrial production equipment and facility systems—electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic—perform preventive maintenance, calibrate instrumentation, and support upgrades to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations.
- • Perform scheduled preventive maintenance tasks, such as inspecting, cleaning, lubricating, and adjusting production equipment to prevent failures.
- • Review work orders and communicate with operators to identify issues and determine root causes, including mechanical, electrical, or user-related.
- • Set up, start up, and test machinery and automation systems to verify proper operation after installation or repair.
- • Operate equipment to validate repairs and analyze malfunctions.
- • Diagnose electrical and mechanical faults using test instruments, software, and knowledge of PLCs, drives, sensors, pneumatics, and hydraulics.
- • Repair or replace components such as bearings, belts, motors, gearboxes, valves, cylinders, sensors, wiring, and seals.
- • Calibrate instruments, sensors, and control devices to specifications.
- • Provide feedback to management on equipment performance, reliability trends, and improvement opportunities.
- • Inspect equipment assemblies for proper alignment, secure connections, worn parts, and safety compliance.
- • Read and interpret blueprints, electrical schematics, P&IDs, and manuals to plan installations and repairs.
- • Maintain accurate maintenance logs, PM records, calibrations, and test results in the CMMS.
- • Coordinate with production, engineering, and vendors to schedule maintenance and resolve issues.
- • Manage spare parts inventory and initiate replenishment.
- • Work with supervisors, engineers, and production to plan equipment layouts, upgrades, and maintenance strategies.
- • Send major components to OEMs or specialty repair shops when required.
- • Install, align, and commission repaired or new equipment and systems on the production floor.
- • Evaluate opportunities to standardize parts and fabricate or modify simple fixtures or guards to improve reliability.
- • Use programming software, PLC tools, and HMIs to back up and restore programs, adjust parameters, and update documentation.
- • Complete required maintenance and compliance documentation and sign off on work performed.
- • Follow lockout/tagout, electrical safety, and housekeeping standards to maintain a safe work environment.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
