
Production Technician III - 1st Shift
Cummins · Maxton, NC
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Production
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 7 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level production role at Cummins (industrial) in Maxton, NC. Initiate, recommend, or provide solutions through designated channels.
- Tools it names
- Root cause, IATF 16949
- Openings
- 2 with this title at this site
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Manufacturing Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $60k–$95k.
Median of the low and high ends of 65 live postings that list pay, out of 1046 manufacturing technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
North Carolina plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 45 other live production postings in North Carolina.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $75k–$100k, from 5 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 87%
- Lean 33%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for IATF 16949, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
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Pick 2–3 people on the Production team at Cummins
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Send a short, curious note
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Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
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This plant: Cummins in Maxton
4 other open roles at this site.
- Production Team Leader - 2nd Shift · Production · Supervisor
- Production Technician III · Production · Technician
- Production Technician III - 2nd Shift · Production · Technician
- Facility & Equipment Maintenance Manager · Reliability · Manager
Full description from CumminsAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways
Champion a safe work environment by immediately stopping work when major hazards are identified, reporting incidents promptly, and helping ensure every team member goes home safely each day.
Promote a culture of accountability and interdependence by looking out for teammates, addressing hazards within my control, and encouraging others to follow HSE standards and procedures.
Support environmental stewardship by recognizing how daily activities impact the environment and taking actions to reduce waste, emissions, and other negative impacts.
Deliver high-quality products by consistently following standard work, quality procedures, visual standards, and inspection
requirements
to ensure customer expectations are met.
Reduce quality and cost risks by identifying non-conforming material, raising concerns quickly, and helping prevent defects before they reach customers.
Drive operational excellence by operating equipment efficiently, meeting production targets, maintaining required cycle times, and ensuring products are manufactured to specification.
Strengthen team capability by sharing knowledge, coaching less experienced team members, and serving as a resource to support overall team performance.
Contribute to continuous improvement by collaborating with production, skilled trades, and support teams to improve safety, quality, processes, material flow, equipment reliability, and employee development.
To Be Successful in This Role, I Will Need To
- ◆Build strong partnerships and collaborate effectively with teammates, skilled trades, leaders, and support functions to achieve shared production, quality, and safety goals.
- ◆Communicate clearly and professionally with different audiences, ensuring expectations, issues, updates, and solutions are understood and acted upon quickly.
- ◆Demonstrate courage and accountability by speaking up about safety concerns, quality issues, process gaps, or risks, even when conversations may be difficult.
- ◆Make sound and timely decisions by assessing available information, weighing risks, and taking appropriate action to keep operations moving forward.
- ◆Deliver consistent results by meeting production goals, maintaining quality standards, and staying focused under changing priorities and challenging conditions.
- ◆Take ownership of commitments by following through on responsibilities, meeting deadlines, and holding myself accountable for performance and continuous improvement.
- ◆Effectively manage complexity and solve problems by analyzing information, identifying root causes, and making data-driven decisions to improve processes and performance.
- ◆Champion health and safety every day by proactively identifying hazards, reporting concerns, participating in corrective actions, and helping build an injury-free workplace culture.
- ◆Develop and apply manufacturing knowledge to support process improvements, equipment effectiveness, operational excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- ◆Value and leverage diverse perspectives by respecting different experiences, backgrounds, and ideas, creating a collaborative environment where everyone can contribute to success.
Education, Licenses, Certifications
- ✓High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations.
- ✓This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
Experience
- ✓Requires significant relevant work experience or specialized skills obtained through education, training or on-the-job experience.
Additional
Technicians have the responsibility and authority to
- ◆Understand what constitutes producing a quality product that meets customer expectations.
- ◆Read, comprehend, and execute written instructions.
- ◆Operate machinery according to set procedures – meeting productivity goals in a safe, quality, and environmentally sound, cost-effective manner.
- ◆Be able to properly operate manufacturing equipment.
- ◆Use precision measuring instruments such as calipers, dial indicators, and micrometers to determine adherence of product characteristics to prescribed specifications.
- ◆Safely operate a fork truck, if assigned, and possess a valid company forklift license.
- ◆Initiate action, up to and including stopping the line, to prevent the occurrence of any nonconformities relating to product, process, and quality systems.
- ◆Identify and record any product, process, and quality system problems.
- ◆Initiate, recommend, or provide solutions through designated channels.
- ◆Verify the implementation of solutions.
- ◆Control further processing, delivery, or installation of nonconforming product until the deficiency or unsatisfactory condition has been corrected as defined by applicable procedures and/or delegation of the area manufacturing manager or designee.
- ◆Perform rework and repair operations on nonconforming material.
- ◆Perform preventative maintenance to all equipment and, in some cases, notify the proper maintenance personnel of necessary repairs.
- ◆Perform safety and housekeeping duties to ensure a safe working environment.
- ◆Participate actively in the team to achieve team goals.
- ◆Maintain flexible work culture with the ability to learn and effectively operate all equipment.
- ◆Comply with all Cummins Drivetrain and Braking Systems written environmental (ISO 14001) and quality (TS16949) policies.
- ◆Support development of a continual improvement, employe
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We are looking for a talented Production Technician III supporting our 1 st Shift to join our team specializing in Manufacturing for our Cummins Drivetrain & Braking Systems Business Unit facility in Maxton, NC.
The basic function of the production technician is to utilize manufacturing work instructions to assemble purchased parts into finished Commercial Vehicle System products.
