Maintenance Technician

Maintenance Technician

An established recycling operation is seeking an experienced Maintenance Technician with hands-on experience maintaining and repairing industrial balers, compactors, and related heavy equipment. This position requires strong mechanical troubleshooting skills with experience in hydraulic, electrical, and pneumatic systems.

Responsibilities

• Perform preventive maintenance and repairs on recycling equipment, vehicles, and facility machinery.
• Diagnose mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, and pneumatic problems.
• Maintain and repair industrial balers, compactors, shredders, forklifts, and skid steers.
• Service company trucks, including bobtails, roll-off trucks, tractor-trailers, and dry van trailers.
• Perform routine inspections to identify issues before equipment failures occur.
• Replace bearings, belts, chains, hoses, cylinders, motors, and other mechanical components.
• Troubleshoot and repair hydraulic systems.
• Assist with electrical troubleshooting when qualified.
• Perform minor welding and fabrication repairs.
• Respond quickly to breakdowns to minimize downtime.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records and a clean, safe work environment.

Qualifications

• Industrial maintenance experience with balers and/or compactors strongly preferred.
• Strong mechanical troubleshooting and repair skills.
• Experience with hydraulics, pneumatics, and electrical systems.
• Ability to perform preventive and corrective maintenance independently.
• Experience repairing conveyors, shredders, forklifts, mobile equipment, trucks, or trailers is valuable.
• Welding and fabrication skills are a plus.
• Strong safety awareness and ability to troubleshoot equipment failures efficiently.

Why Join?

• Hands-on role with a wide variety of industrial equipment
• Combination of preventive maintenance and troubleshooting
• Opportunity to work on mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical systems
• Stable industrial environment with significant equipment responsibility