Role overview
About this role
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Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to our employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html
Position Overview:
Join a team where your technical expertise makes a direct impact every day. As a Maintenance Technician, you'll play a key role in keeping advanced manufacturing equipment operating at peak performance through hands-on troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and continuous improvement initiatives. This is an opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology, solve complex mechanical and electrical challenges, and collaborate with skilled engineers and technicians in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
This is a first shift position.
What Your Day May Look Like:
- Perform advanced troubleshooting, repair, and preventive maintenance on facility equipment, including diesel engines, transportation equipment, heavy machinery, and large forklifts.
- Lead assigned maintenance projects from planning through execution, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and with minimal supervision.
- Diagnose and resolve complex mechanical and electrical issues to maximize equipment reliability, uptime, and operational performance.
- Support equipment installations, machine startups, commissioning activities, and continuous improvement initiatives while partnering closely with engineering teams.
- Maintain accurate technical documentation, provide guidance to junior technicians, and contribute to a high-performing maintenance organization focused on safety, quality, and productivity.
This posting outlines the primary responsibilities of the role, but is not all-inclusive; additional duties may be assigned in alignment with business needs.
What Will Make You Thrive in This Role
- 3–5 years of hands-on experience in industrial maintenance, equipment repair, assembly, or machine installation within a manufacturing environment.
- Strong troubleshooting skills with experience supporting mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.
- Proven ability to diagnose complex equipment issues, perform repairs, and work independently with minimal supervision.
- Experience reading technical drawings, schematics, manuals, and maintaining accurate maintenance documentation.
- Familiarity with diesel engines and heavy equipment; experience with Deutz engines is a plus.
- Strong communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills with a commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
Additional Information:
Upon offer of employment, candidates will be subject to a background check and drug screen.
The physical demands described here are representative of those necessary to successfully perform the essential job duties:
- Frequently walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Frequently required to climb stairs, steps, and ladders
- Frequently required to work on elevated platforms.
- Perform work overhead.
- Occasionally lift and move at most 40 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Candidates should be willing to work in non-climate-controlled environments and inclement weather if required or if applicable.
Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without needing current or future employer-sponsored work authorization.
This position is located in Sacramento, CA. The starting salary range for this position is $71,400 - $82,008 per year. The actual wage offered may be lower or higher depending on budget and candidate experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications, and premium geographic location.
Purpose is the reason a company exists. It's not about making money or selling products - it's the deeper "why" behind everything we do. It answers the question: What problem are we solving? What positive change are we creating?
For Siemens, our purpose has been clear for over 175 years: We create technology to transform the everyday, for everyone.
The world needs technologies that work. Technologies that matter. Technologies that solve today's challenges and help shape a better tomorrow. And that's exactly what we build. By bringing together the real world (factories, buildings, power grids, trains) with the digital world (software, data, AI, digital twins), we help our customers become more competitive, resilient, and sustainable.
Our technology is everywhere - in trains and transportation, we help move people faster, safer, and more sustainably.
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