**Job Title: Maintenance Technician** **Job Description** As a Maintenance Technician, you will be responsible for maintaining and performing preventive maintenance (PM) on baking equipment and conveyor systems. You will work with various industrial machines such as mixers, extruders, refrigeration units, proofers, conveyors, boilers, and silos. Your duties will include replacing, rotating, inspecting, and changing parts, connecting power to machines, installing motors, and rewiring them. You will also read blueprints and schematics, move machinery using hoists and dollies, perform welding on steel and aluminum, run conduit and electrical wiring to new industrial machines, and engage in fabrication using drill presses, cutting out holes, and making parts. **Responsibilities** + Maintain and perform preventive maintenance on baking equipment and conveyor systems. + Work with mixers, extruders, refrigeration units, proofers, conveyors, boilers, and silos. + Replace, rotate, inspect, and change parts of industrial machines. + Connect power to machines, install motors, and rewire motors. + Read blueprints and schematics. + Move machinery and equipment using hoists and dollies. + Perform welding on steel and aluminum materials. + Run conduit and electrical wiring to new industrial machines. + Engage in fabrication using drill presses, cutting out holes, and making parts. **Essential Skills** + Experience troubleshooting and performing preventive maintenance on automated equipment. + Experience with assembly equipment (conveyors) and experience building industrial equipment. + Experience rebuilding three-phase motors. + Proficiency in troubleshooting industrial machines and PLCs, including troubleshooting and changing out drives. + Mechanical troubleshooting skills and ability to replace motors, gears, and pumps on industrial machinery. **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + Experience installing conduit and electrical wiring. + Experience in the food or beverage industry. + Must have personal hand tools; power tools will be provided. **Why Work Here?** This opportunity offers significant overtime potential with contractors routinely working 60 hours per week. It is an excellent environment for career growth, as evidenced by recent promotions within the company. Employees receive excellent benefits once hired directly, including two weeks of PTO upon direct hire. The company values its employees and provides a supportive work environment. **Work Environment** The work environment is hot and fast-paced, with the plant typically being 10-20 degrees warmer than outside due to large industrial ovens. The schedule involves working 4 days a week, 12-hour shifts, plus one day every other weekend. Employees earn time and a half for anything over 12 hours in one day or 40 hours in a week. Each shift has one supervisor and three technicians, and the team works within a family-owned bread company with a strong presence in the Midwest. **Job Type & Location** This is a Permanent position based out of Plymouth, MI. **Pay and Benefits** The pay range for this position is $69264.00 - $72384.00/yr. direct hire, medical, dental, vision, 401K **Workplace Type** This is a fully onsite position in Plymouth,MI. **Application Deadline** This position is anticipated to close on Jan 30, 2026. **About Aerotek:** We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow. Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.