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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

Interested?

Alana Seddon | gpacExecutive Search Consultant | Manufacturing & Industrial Operations785-783-6703 | alana.seddon@gogpac.com

All inquiries and candidate information will be held in the strictest confidence.

Keywords

Maintenance Technician • Industrial Maintenance • Baler Technician • Compactor Technician • Recycling Equipment • Industrial Baler • Two-Ram Baler • Horizontal Baler • Compactor Repair • Shredder Maintenance • Hydraulic Maintenance • Pneumatics • Electrical Troubleshooting • Mechanical Maintenance • Forklift Repair • Skid Steer • Conveyor Maintenance • Welding • Fabrication • Preventive Maintenance • Fleet Maintenance

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations. GPAC (Growing People and Companies) is an award-winning search firm specializing in placing quality professionals within multiple industries across the United States since 1990. We are extremely competitive, client-focused and realize that our value is in our ability to deliver the right solutions at the right time.