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Skilled - Maintenance Technician

QPS Employment Group
62,400
United States, Wisconsin, Janesville
1905 Center Avenue (Show on map)
Oct 02, 2025
Position Title: Maintenance Technician - 12 Hour Nights

Wage: $30.00 - $35.00/hour

Shift: 12 Hour Nights

Hours: 6:00pm - 6:00am

Are your skills not being fully utilized? Reach your maximum potential by working with QPS!

QPS Employment Group has a great opportunity available for a Maintenance Technician at a company in Janesville, WI. This is a direct hire position. Apply now!

Maintenance Technician Responsibilities:

- Execute routine, preventive, predictive and reactive maintenance activities for manufacturing equipment and support equipment

- Troubleshoot, diagnose and repair control and non-control based production equipment

- Identify problems and solutions on existing equipment; make suggestions/recommendations on specific manufacturing components to be installed on new equipment and /or upgrades to assist in standardization of parts throughout the facility

- Participate with the Maintenance leader and the Production Unit in purchasing new, rebuilt or upgrades for equipment project, identifying project scope, timelines, budgets and resource scheduling

- Manage planned downtime activities for equipment which involves ordering required component parts and identifying additional resources

- Participate in continuous improvement projects to improve the equipment's reliability and maintainability

- Document control (work orders, inventory control etc.)

- Assist in the development of preventive, predictive and repair tasks and procedures

- Follow safety regulations and practices including but not limited to lockout/tag out and required personal protective equipment

- Utilize and follow systems for inventory control of spare parts, labor reporting, maintenance requests, Preventive Maintenance work orders and purchasing

- Communicate issues to all appropriate personnel to ensure information is shared with all appropriate parties

- Assist Production Unit in line changeovers and set-ups as needed

Requirements for Maintenance Technician:

- High School Diploma or equivalent

- 5 to 6 years or more of industrial maintenance experience (pneumatics, hydraulics, electrical)

- Training certifications in a technical field (PLC's, pneumatics, hydraulics, electrical)

- Experience operating, programming and troubleshooting PLC's

- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office

- Ability to work from ladder or elevated platform

- Ability to maintain a forklift license

- Solid troubleshooting skills in pneumatics, electrical and hydraulic systems

- Ability to read and understand blueprints

- Data driven mindset in identifying and prioritizing opportunities and issues

- Strong analytical skills, strategic as well as tactical thinking ability, and problem-solving capacity

- Energetic and self-driven professional, with a high degree of customer focus

- Excellent communication skills, both internally and externally

- Organized, detail orientated and executes with a sense of urgency

- Proven ability to manage deadlines, prioritize, multi-task

- Strives for continuous improvement

QPS Employment Group is a full-service staffing firm comprised of dedicated and passionate people with over 50 offices throughout the United States. We place great people with great companies in industrial, skilled trades, administrative, manufacturing, general labor and professional employment. Hiring immediately!

Why Work with QPS?

- Access to sought-after positions with leading employers

- Dedicated placement specialists who will guide you through every step of the job search process
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