Industrial Maintenance Technician - Overnight Shift
Sweet Candy Company · Salt Lake City, UT
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 3 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level reliability role at Sweet Candy Company (industrial) in Salt Lake City, UT. Allen-Bradley (Studio 5000/RSLogix) or Siemens PLC experience.
- They ask for
- 2+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, FDA / GMP, PLC, Automation, Welding
- 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
- Less than usual (2+ vs 5+)
Similar roles usually ask 5+ 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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Requirements
What We’re Looking For
Required Qualifications
- ✓2+ years of industrial maintenance experience in manufacturing, with a strong electrical and controls background
- ✓Hands-on PLC and I/O troubleshooting (online monitoring, reading logic, tracing faults)
- ✓Experience with VFDs, motor controls, and 480V three-phase power
- ✓Working mechanical skills: power transmission, pneumatics, and hydraulics
- ✓Able to read electrical schematics and mechanical drawings
- ✓Strong commitment to safety and compliance
- ✓Clear communicator and team player in a multicultural workplace
- ✓Basic computer skills, including Microsoft Office
qualifications
listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform the job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
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Description
Industrial Maintenance Technician – Electrical Controls
Shift: Sunday - Tuesday and every other Saturday 4pm - 4:30am
Wage Range: $32/r - $40/hr, plus shift differential
At Sweet Candy Company, our mission is to Make Life Sweet. In Maintenance, that means keeping our lines safe, reliable, and running at their best. As an Industrial Maintenance Technician, you’ll keep all our production equipment running, with a focus on the electrical controls and automation behind it.
We’re one of the oldest family-owned candy companies in the U.S., making taffy, chocolate sticks, cinnamon bears, and other favorites. We keep investing in automation and reliability, and we need technicians who can keep up with it and help push it forward.
If you’re a maintenance pro who’s strongest when the problem is in the panel, we want to hear from you.
What You’ll Do
- •Troubleshoot and repair electrical controls and automation: PLCs, HMIs, VFDs, servo drives, sensors, relays, contactors, and safety circuits
- •Diagnose problems that cross systems: electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic
- •Read and work from schematics, wiring diagrams, ladder logic, and one-lines
- •Maintain and repair motors, gearboxes, conveyors, pumps, bearings, belts, and chains
- •Install, modify, and wire control panels and production equipment
- •Perform preventive and predictive maintenance, and document work in our maintenance system
- •Find root causes and recommend improvements that reduce downtime
- •Partner with production, quality, sanitation, and leadership to keep lines running
- •Follow all safety, LOTO, NFPA 70E, GMP, and food safety
Preferred
- +Allen-Bradley (Studio 5000/RSLogix) or Siemens PLC experience
- +Food or other regulated manufacturing experience
- +CMMS experience and predictive maintenance tools (thermography, vibration analysis)
- +Arc-flash, NFPA 70E, or LOTO training
- +Welding/fabrication or a technical degree or certificate in industrial maintenance or automation
Why Join Sweet Candy
Sweet Candy offers a competitive total rewards package, including
- •Health insurance starting the 1st of the month after hire
- •Domestic partner health coverage
- •Paid vacation
- •Up to 40 hours per year of paid Life Happens Time
- •10 paid holidays
- •Bonus program
- •401(k) with 3% company contribution plus up to an additional 3% match
- •Tuition sponsorship and tuition assistance
- •Shift differential
- •Professional development opportunities
- •Supplemental insurance benefits
- •Employee product discounts and giveaways
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