Equipment Maintenance Technician
Flex · Texas
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level reliability role at Flex (industrial) in Texas. Be based in Austin, Texas , reporting to Maintenance Supervisor .
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Openings
- 2 with this title at this site
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Maintenance Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $58k–$83k.
Median of the low and high ends of 39 live postings that list pay, out of 1590 maintenance technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Texas plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 121 other live reliability postings in Texas.
- Experience asked
- More than usual (5+ vs 4+)
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 61%
- PLC 36%
- Welding 34%
- Root cause 25%
- EHS / safety 23%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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Job Summary
The “ Equipment Maintenance Tech ” will be based in Austin, Texas , reporting to Maintenance Supervisor .
Mechanical: Repairs and maintains machinery and mechanical equipment such as conveyor systems and production machines and equipment.
Electrical: Maintains and repairs manufacturing equipment to ensure it is operational.
Shift: 3:00pm-11:15pm (Monday-Friday)
The experience we’re looking to add to our team
- ✓Typically requires an associate degree in related field, military technical training or equivalent education and training.
- ✓Typically requires 5 years of related experience.
- ✓SMT experience is a must
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Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.
A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.
What a typical day looks like
- •Through troubleshooting, identifies machine malfunctions and isolates the failure mechanism.
- •Repairs the failure mechanism in the most cost-effective manner.
- •Performs preventive maintenance at specified intervals and schedules.
- •Performs calibrations and re-qualifications on equipment at specified intervals and schedules.
- •Assists process technicians and engineers with the installation and removal of process equipment.
- •Records times and problems in equipment logs.
- •Provides daily equipment functioning activity information.
- •Disassembles instruments and equipment and inspects components for defects.
- •Aligns, repairs, replaces, and balances component parts and circuitry.
- •Assists engineers in formulating test, calibration, repair and evaluation plans and procedures to maintain precision accuracy of measuring, recording, and indicating instruments and equipment.
- •May require travel to other Flex sites or equipment vendors' locations.
- •Highest level may perform both software and hardware maintenance.
What you'll receive for the great work you provide
- •Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
- •Life Insurance
- •Short-term and Long-term Disability
- •Matching 401(k) Contributions
- •Vacation and Paid Sick Time
- •Tuition Reimbursement