Maintenance Technician - Multiple Levels
MILFORD MINING COMPANY UTAH LL · Milford, UT
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 26 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level reliability role at MILFORD MINING COMPANY UTAH LL (industrial) in Milford, UT. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
- They ask for
- 5+ years
- Tools it names
- Root cause
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 26, 2026
Maintenance Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $58k–$84k.
Median of the low and high ends of 37 live postings that list pay, out of 1861 maintenance technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 19 other live reliability postings in Utah.
- Experience asked
- More than usual (5+ vs 4+)
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Automation 45%
- PLC 45%
- Welding 35%
- ✓ Team leadership 35%
- ✓ Root cause 30%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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Full description from MILFORD MINING COMPANY UTAH LLAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Essential Functions
- ◆Perform highly diversified duties to install and maintain equipment.
- ◆Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of equipment during production and performs scheduled maintenance repairs of equipment.
- ◆Perform simple mechanic duties and responsibilities.
- ◆Perform mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, troubleshooting and repair of equipment.
- ◆Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
- ◆Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test and make adjustments.
- ◆Perform regular preventive maintenance on equipment.
- ◆Use a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters and material handling equipment in performing duties.
- ◆Detect faulty operations, defective material and report those and any unusual situations to proper supervision.
- ◆Comply with safety regulations and maintain clean and orderly work areas.
Supervisory Responsibility
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The employee is exposed to a variety of extreme weather conditions at construction job sites. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are rotating 12-hour shifts operating on a 7-days-on and 7-days-off schedule starting on Thursday and working through till the following Wednesday. This position will require work during weekends and holidays.
Travel
No travel is expected for this position.
Work Authorization/Security Clearance
Authorized to work in the United States.
AAP/EEO Statement
Other Duties
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.
Required Education and Experience
- ✓High school diploma/GED and completion of a craft apprenticeship, or an equivalent number of years of education and maintenance experience.
- ✓5+ years of mining experience; strong hydraulic, mechanical and industrial skills.
Preferred Education and Experience
1. MSHA Certification(s)
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Description
We're seeking a Maintenance Technician level 1, 2, and 3!
The Maintenance Technician is responsible for installing, troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining fixed plant and mineral processing equipment to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations. This technical role requires advanced skills and experience.
This role supports crushing, conveying, grinding/milling, flotation, pumping, and related processing systems by performing corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance on critical assets such as crushers, conveyors, ball mills, slurry pumps, motors, gearboxes, and process piping.
The Maintenance Technician plays a key role in minimizing downtime by quickly diagnosing equipment failures, executing quality repairs, and identifying root causes to improve long-term reliability. Working closely with operations and metallurgy teams, this position helps ensure equipment availability meets production targets while maintaining strict adherence to safety standards, MSHA compliance, and best-practice maintenance procedures.
Competencies
- •Technical Capacity
- •Ethical Conduct
- •Communication Proficiency
- •Results Driven
- •Initiative