Automation Maintenance Technician

Automation Maintenance Technician

Up to $38.00/Hour + Shift Differentials • Greater Milwaukee, WI • All Shifts Available • Full Benefits Package

This opportunity offers a stable, high-autonomy career home for an industrial maintenance professional looking for a workplace that rewards hard work, respects technical independence, and backs it up with true corporate stability. Operating as a market-leading manufacturing organization in the Greater Milwaukee area, this company has built a premier reputation for being genuinely employee-friendly and highly collaborative. Production environments are run under a non-micromanaged philosophy, focusing instead on building strong, team-oriented shifts where technicians take true ownership of keeping production cells running at peak efficiency.

This position provides a rare chance to claim the exact schedule that aligns perfectly with your routine, as openings are actively available across all three traditional shifts. Because the organization deeply believes in sharing its market success, employees enjoy multiple corporate and performance-based bonuses distributed throughout the year. This structure creates a rock-solid workplace where people plant long-term career roots and stay for decades. If you are looking for an environment that values technical craftsmanship, promotes cross-training, and offers a highly stable, positive shop culture, this is the perfect space for your trade.

What You Will Be Doing

• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and repair high-capacity industrial automation machinery, processing lines, and integrated robotic cells.
• Interface directly with Allen-Bradley and Siemens PLCs to trace logic faults, diagnose inputs/outputs, and rapidly resolve critical equipment errors.
• Read and interpret complex mechanical blueprints and electrical schematics to safely execute emergency breakdown repairs and structured preventative maintenance.
• Maintain, rebuild, and optimize fluid power components, including heavy-duty pneumatic valves, cylinders, and distribution lines.
• Work confidently on industrial AC/DC electrical systems, electric motors, variable frequency drives (VFDs), and power distribution setups.
• Execute light structural and programmatic welding as needed to support general machinery modifications, system fabrications, and repair activities.

What We Are Looking For

• Industrial maintenance track record featuring a minimum of 3 years of verifiable experience maintaining high-speed production or heavy industrial machinery; strong, independent diagnostic capability is required.
• Automation familiarity with clear exposure to working around automated systems, including basic navigation or fault-tracing within PLC environments.
• Schematic literacy and mechanical fundamentals backed by solid proficiency tracing electrical blueprints, reading mechanical drawings, and maintaining fluid power equipment.
• Professional reliability and a steady, consistent work history that demonstrates long-term commitment and strong daily attendance with past employers.
• Local commute and permanent residency established within a comfortable 45-minute driving radius of the Greater Milwaukee, WI area.