Maintenance Technician

FutureStarter: Maintenance Technician at ZF

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Location

Charleston, SC, US, 29418

Req ID 91260 | North Charleston, SC, United States WABCO Compressor Manufacturing Co

About the Team

The Maintenance Team helps keep production running safely and efficiently by maintaining mechanical, pneumatic, electrical, and hydraulic equipment. With limited supervision, team members diagnose, troubleshoot, and repair machinery while following all applicable safety standards and OSHA guidelines.

What You Can Look Forward to as a Maintenance Technician

• Improves Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) by escalating equipment and production issues through appropriate channels to support timely resolution and greater efficiency.
• Prioritizes work effectively, acts with urgency, meets deadlines, and supports operational goals.
• Owns maintenance practices, procedures, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance safety, reliability, asset performance, and operational efficiency.
• Adjusts priorities and actions as production demands, schedules, and urgent requests change while maintaining operational effectiveness.
• Completes assigned work on schedule and in line with quality standards and business objectives.
• Troubleshoots and repairs mechanical, pneumatic, electrical, PLC-related, and hydraulic systems during planned and unplanned downtime to reduce production disruptions.
• Performs preventive maintenance on schedule to improve equipment reliability, strengthen machine performance, and maximize uptime.
• Keeps equipment and tools in proper working condition to help prevent production interruptions and unnecessary downtime.
• Analyzes downtime, identifies recurring mechanical or technical issues, and implements corrective actions to prevent repeat disruptions.
• Helps maintain availability of critical replacement parts for key manufacturing equipment to minimize avoidable downtime.
• Maintains accurate maintenance records, including equipment issues, repairs, preventive maintenance, and corrective actions.
• Supports continuous improvement projects that enhance safety, quality, equipment reliability, and operational performance.
• Promotes a safe and secure work environment by following all applicable safety standards, policies, and procedures.
• Helps strengthen the ZF culture by contributing to a positive, collaborative, and productive workplace.
• Completes special projects and performs other assigned duties in support of business objectives.

Your Profile as a Maintenance Technician

• Two or more years of experience in an industrial maintenance technician role.
• Understanding of production-line operations and workflows, including how maintenance affects safety, uptime, quality, and output.
• Strong electrical skills, including understanding schematic diagrams.
• Experience using a CMMS system
• Strong troubleshooting skills and technical knowledge of mechanical, pneumatic, electrical, and hydraulic systems.
• Knowledge of communication protocols and escalation procedures that support timely, accurate information flow during service events.
• Ability to stay customer-focused and respond to production-line needs with professionalism and accountability.
• Strong organizational, task-management, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Relevant coursework in a maintenance-related field; electrical certification or industrial electronics education preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of common manufacturing and operations concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Availability to work nights, weekends, holidays, shutdowns and overtime as needed.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• English-language proficiency.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Familiarity with applicable Occupational Safety and Health Act requirements and regulations.
• At least two years of maintenance experience in the automotive industry.
• Experience programming Allen-Bradley PLCs.
• Experience with Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) systems.
• Experience with honing and machining processes.

Be part of our ZF team as Maintenance Technician and apply now!

Diversity commitment: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are at the core of the ZF Way. We strive to build a culture where inclusiveness is a natural reflex and actively seek ways to remove barriers so that every member of ZF can rise to their full potential. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. ZF does not offer visa sponsorship for this role and candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Nearest Major Market: Charleston South Carolina

Nearest Secondary Market: South Carolina

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