Maintenance Technician
Company: Orion Talent
Job Ref: # 1264580
Date Posted: 3/3/2026 12:00:00 AM
City, State: New Haven, IN
Salary: $105,000 - $108,000
Description
Go to end ⇓In this role you will be responsible for electrical and mechanical maintenance in the Melting Department.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Perform mechanical and electrical maintenance and troubleshooting, project work, and installation of new equipment, organize downturn activities, maintain maintenance records, preventive maintenance and update documentation.
- You will work as part of a team to ensure that all preventative and corrective maintenance is performed in a timely manner.
- Welding and fabrication as needed.
- Monitor and ensure safe work practices.
- Occasionally work with chemicals that require full face respirator or SCBA
Must-Have Skills, Experience, and Education:
- Looking for strong multiskilled mechanical technician candidates (with at least some welding experience) with 4+ years of industrial maintenance and troubleshooting experience.
- Candidates with at least some electrical knowledge/experience are preferred.
- Candidates with some exposure to PLC is a plus.
- Looking for candidates that are looking for a great opportunity to grow within a company and make a career with one company.
- They are looking for candidates that are willing to work hard and efficiently, so as to make the company more profitable, and as a result make themselves more money in profit sharing.
- They want candidates that can work in a fast-paced environment and have good troubleshooting skills; and candidates must be teachable and willing to learn.
- Candidates will take a maintenance test that will help determine their weak areas, thus helping determine training deficiencies that would have to be overcome upon hiring. Topics: Hydraulics/Pneumatics, Motors, Circuits, Voltage readings on fuses, Symbols, Logic, and switches.
- Must be a team player and a good communicator.
- Ability to pass FIT test for full face respirator and SCBA (no beards)
Positive attributes for this job will include the following:
- Safety - Demonstrate concern for the safety of self and others and is knowledgeable of and consistently follows all accepted safety practices. Has ability to communicate the importance of a safe work environment and the maintenance of plant equipment in relation to safety.
- Communication – Effectively expresses ideas and/or tasks. Clearly express ideas in writing and in good grammatical form. Has ability to convey technical information in a way that can be understood by all team members.
- Teamwork - Communicate and work effectively with others to accomplish tasks and achieve goals of the team. Ability to distinguish and align personal needs with needs of the group. Maintains focus on obtaining goals of the division.
- Judgment/Decision Making - Is able to take action in solving problems while exhibiting good judgment and responsibility with a timely systematic approach to decision making. All actions and decisions are in the best interest of company.
- Initiative – Demonstrated self-starter, always looking for work that needs to be done and ways to improve. Is energetic and motivating to others
- Leadership – Utilizes appropriate interpersonal skills and methods to influence the actions and opinions of others in a desired, positive direction. Exhibits good judgment in leading others to accomplish the team goals and objectives
- Persistence – Must be able to maintain a positive attitude when faced with adversity and to persist in the completion of tasks despite the level of difficulty or frustration involved.
- Innovativeness - Generates new ideas and routinely goes beyond the status quo; recognizes the need for new or modified approaches; brings perspectives and approaches together, combining them in creative ways.
