Plant Maintenance Technician
industrial_energy_operations › Plant Maintenance (Energy/Mining) · S2 — S2 — Support Specialist · Support
An entry-to-developing level technician who performs routine maintenance and operational tasks on engine room and plant equipment under guidance.
Median pay · United States · annual
$42,923 USD
▲ +15% vs S1 on this ladder
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What this role is
An entry-to-developing level technician who performs routine maintenance and operational tasks on engine room and plant equipment under guidance. At the Support Specialist (S2) level, the role owns a defined queue or customer set, standard issues within known procedures, and drives customer satisfaction for own queue. None.
What this level does
- Carry out multi-step PM routines on assigned heavy mining equipment (drills, loaders, conveyors) — lubrication, filter changes, belt tension, wear checks — working from the CMMS schedule with general expectations on deadlines and priorities rather than task-by-task instruction.
- Recognize when a routine PM reveals a condition needing corrective work, open or escalate the appropriate corrective work order, and describe the fault clearly.
- Install wire, connect power sources, and perform basic mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic repairs on standard equipment, referring new or unfamiliar tasks to a senior technician.
- Interpret technical schematics for common plant systems to locate components and confirm correct connections during repairs.
- Maintain accurate maintenance and repair records in the CMMS, keeping parts and downtime entries consistent so history is usable for later troubleshooting.
- Knowledge applied
- Broad working knowledge of PM routines, common equipment and CMMS use; interprets standard schematics and applies acquired skills across varied tasks.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Semi-routine, multi-step repairs; recognizes when to deviate from a PM and escalates genuinely new situations.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Follows established procedures with instruction on new tasks; routine peer interaction and coordination with operations on scheduled work.
- Typical experience
- 1–2 years; some related maintenance experience, often part-way through an apprenticeship or trade training.
Skills at this level
- CMMS Work-Order Execution
- — Receives, actions and closes preventive and corrective work orders in the plant's Computerized Maintenance Management System, recording parts used, labor time and repair notes so equipment history stays accurate and usable.
- Technical Schematic Interpretation
- — Reads mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic and control schematics to locate components and trace faults through power and control circuits on plant and mining equipment.
- Preventive Maintenance
- — Performs scheduled lubrication, adjustment, inspection and component replacement on running equipment so small mechanical or technical problems are caught before they become major failures.
- Equipment Defect Inspection
- — Examines parts and assemblies for breakage, excessive wear and abnormal condition during inspections, and documents findings to trigger corrective action.
- Broad Multi-Discipline Maintenance
- — Applies a skill set spanning mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic and control systems — from welding and wiring to hand tools and hydraulics — to diagnose and repair diverse plant equipment.
- Heavy Mining Equipment Repair
- — Maintains and repairs drills, loaders, conveyors and utility systems, including installing wire, connecting power sources and restoring equipment to safe running condition.
- Breakdown Diagnosis
- — Isolates the root cause of moderately-to-highly complex faults across interacting systems and decides repair, replacement or modification and the safe sequence to execute it.
- Repair Job Planning
- — Assists in planning repair work and special projects by estimating parts, design/layout and downtime windows, and coordinating the shutdown so work fits the operational envelope.
- Reliability-Centered Maintenance
- — Applies RCM principles to decide which failure modes warrant planned intervention, shaping PM routines and job plans for a specialty equipment area.
- Predictive Maintenance / Condition Monitoring
- — Uses condition-monitoring and IoT-based techniques to detect degradation early and shift a specialty area from reactive repair toward planned, forward-looking intervention.
- Energy Consumption Optimization
- — Monitors facility energy use, maintains energy-recovery systems and improves equipment efficiency to support plant sustainability targets in energy/mining operations.
- Spare Parts Inventory Judgment
- — Recommends spares and stocking levels for specialty equipment, balancing the downtime risk of a stockout against carrying cost.
- Working Lead / Peer Coaching
- — Assigns and checks the work of less experienced technicians on repair jobs and shutdowns, and trains peers on diagnosis and repair methods for difficult equipment.
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