Sr. Maintenance Technician Industrial, Heat Treat

Responsibilities

The Senior Maintenance Technician – Heat Treatment is responsible for advanced troubleshooting, repair, preventive maintenance, and reliability of heat-treatment and related manufacturing equipment. This position serves as a senior technical resource for complex equipment issues and supports equipment improvements. The Senior Maintenance Technician works closely with Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Maintenance to minimize equipment downtime and maintain safe and reliable production operations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Perform advanced troubleshooting, repair, and maintenance of industrial heat-treatment equipment, furnaces, ovens, and supporting equipment. Diagnose complex mechanical, pneumatic, and control-system failures. Troubleshoot motors, pumps, burners, heating systems, thermocouples, temperature controllers, sensors, relays, contactors, and related components. Troubleshoot PLC-controlled equipment and identify equipment or control-system faults.

Lead troubleshooting efforts during significant equipment breakdowns and help restore equipment to production safely and efficiently. Perform and improve preventive and predictive maintenance activities to increase equipment reliability and reduce unplanned downtime. Identify recurring equipment failures and recommend corrective actions or equipment improvements. Read and interpret mechanical drawings, equipment manuals, and technical documentation.

Support equipment installations, upgrades, modifications, and commissioning activities. Partner with Engineering and Operations on equipment reliability and continuous improvement projects. Provide technical guidance and hands-on training to Maintenance Technicians. Assist with identifying critical spare parts and maintaining appropriate spare-parts availability. Maintain accurate maintenance records, repair documentation, and preventive maintenance history.

Ensure work is completed in accordance with Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), electrical safety, PPE, and all applicable environmental, health, and safety requirements. Respond to emergency equipment breakdowns and production maintenance

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

7+ years of industrial maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment. Strong experience troubleshooting and repairing electrical and mechanical production equipment. Experience with industrial furnaces, heat-treatment equipment, ovens, or similar high-temperature processing equipment strongly preferred. Physical Requirements Ability to stand and walk for extended periods. Ability to bend, stoop, kneel, climb, reach, and work in and around industrial equipment.

Ability to lift and move up to 30 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits/Salary

The position includes competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance (medical, dental, vision), excellent 401k matching program, paid holidays and vacation. Howmet Aerospace curates a strong working environment through opportunities for career progression, community engagement activities, and flexible schedules contingent upon role and location. The salary range for this position is $36-$46.