Job Description
Job Title: Maintenance Technician (Day Shift)
Location: Cleveland, OH 44114
Schedule: Monday-Friday | 8:00 AM-4:00 PM
Pay: $25-$35/hr
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k), annual merit increases, employee recognition programs, bonuses, and company-sponsored events.
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k), annual merit increases, employee recognition programs, bonuses, and company-sponsored events.
Sterling Engineering is partnering with a well-established, family-owned manufacturing company to hire a Maintenance Technician for a day shift opportunity supporting production equipment through preventative maintenance and mechanical, electrical, and PLC troubleshooting.
Responsibilities:
- Perform preventative maintenance and repairs on production equipment to minimize downtime.
- Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems.
- Diagnose and resolve PLC-controlled equipment issues.
- Repair motors, drives, sensors, conveyors, and other manufacturing equipment.
- Read and interpret electrical schematics and mechanical drawings.
- Perform troubleshooting on 480V and 110V electrical systems.
- Complete maintenance documentation and communicate equipment status across shifts.
- Work independently while partnering with engineering, production, and maintenance leadership.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives to improve equipment reliability and plant efficiency.
- Maintain a safe, clean, and organized work environment.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of industrial maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong mechanical and electrical troubleshooting skills.
- Experience troubleshooting PLC-controlled equipment.
- Working knowledge of AC/DC motors, drives, sensors, and control circuits.
- Ability to read electrical schematics and mechanical drawings.
- Experience performing preventative maintenance on manufacturing equipment.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently.
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with extrusion or plastics manufacturing.
- Associate degree, technical training, or maintenance certifications.
- Electrical, mechanical, or PLC certifications.
- Experience working with preventative maintenance systems.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Cleveland, OH |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $25–$35 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- DC Motorunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Equipment Maintenance/Repairunmatched
- Extrusionunmatched
- High School Diplomaunmatched
- Hydraulic Engineeringunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Maintenance Servicesunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Equipmentunmatched
- Manufacturing Equipment Maintenanceunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Plastics Manufacturingunmatched
- Preventative Maintenanceunmatched
- Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)unmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Schematicsunmatched
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