Maintenance Technician - 3rd Shift
Madison-Kipp Corporation · Sun Prairie, WI
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 9 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level reliability role at Madison-Kipp Corporation (industrial) in Sun Prairie, WI. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.?
- They ask for
- 5+ years
- Tools it names
- TPM, PLC, Robotics, Automation, CNC, Machining
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How this role compares
Against 86 other live reliability postings in Wisconsin.
- Experience asked
- More than usual (5+ vs 3+)
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 55%
- Welding 49%
- ✓ PLC 48%
- ✓ Robotics 28%
- ✓ Automation 23%
- Tooling 21%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for TPM, Casting, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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How to get in at this plant
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Pick 2–3 people on the Reliability team at Madison-Kipp Corporation
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This plant: Madison-Kipp Corporation in Sun Prairie
1 other open role at this site.
- Maintenance Technician - 2nd Shift · Reliability · Technician
Full description from Madison-Kipp CorporationAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Position summary
The Maintenance Technician is responsible for supporting the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of production equipment within a high-volume aluminum die casting and machining facility. This role performs preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems to minimize downtime and ensure consistent production of high-quality parts.
Maintenance Technicians work closely with production, engineering, and quality teams to identify equipment issues, implement corrective actions, and drive continuous improvement in equipment performance and reliability. This position plays a critical role in maintaining uptime of die cast machines, CNC equipment, robotics, and auxiliary systems while adhering to all safety and environmental standards.
Essential functions
- ◆Perform emergency machine repairs and rebuild machinery as needed plant wide.
- ◆Diagnose and read electrical, pneumatic schematics, understand symbols, and take corrective action.
- ◆Understand PLC operation and use of PLC interface to diagnose problems.
- ◆Knowledge and troubleshooting with CNC's.
- ◆Troubleshooting Hydraulics, Pneumatics, and Electrical.
- ◆Troubleshooting automation and robotics.
- ◆Maintain a clean and safe work environment.
- ◆Other duties as assigned.
- ◆Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or
responsibilities
that are required of the employee for this job.
- ◆Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.?
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily. The
requirements
listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Appropriate education and/or experience may be substituted on an equivalent basis.
Technical school diploma in related field and/or at least one (1) year maintenance experience or High School Diploma with at least 5 years maintenance experience.
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Description
Why consider mkc
Madison-Kipp offers a competitive salary and benefits package to full-time employees that includes: medical, dental, and vision insurance, company paid life and disability insurance, 401k plan with company match, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, paid personal time, and paid parental leave.
Working conditions
Heavy Manufacturing Environment. MKC houses different machinery, equipment, processes, and chemicals which produce potential hazards in the work environment such as: ergonomic, chemical, machine point of operation, and powered industrial vehicle traffic.? These hazards are controlled through means of engineering controls, such as machine guarding, and administrative controls, such as safety policies and programs. ?The noise level in the work environment is moderate to noisy. In certain areas of the facility, employees are required to wear Personal Protective Equipment such as Hearing Protection, Safety Glasses, Safety Toe Shoes, and hand protection.?
Physical demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls.? The employee is regularly required to stand, stoop, bend, or reach above the shoulders.? The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Must be able to regularly walk throughout all the manufacturing facilities.
Language skills
Ability to read, write, and understand English.
Proficient written and verbal communication skills.
Job skills
Ability to work unsupervised or to supervise small groups.
Strong knowledge of TPM activities.
Excellent organizational skills.
Excellent communication skills.
Excellent attention to detail.
Travel requirement
None