Maintenance Technician A
Lear · Grand Prairie, TX
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 3+ years
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level reliability role at Lear (automotive) in Grand Prairie, TX.
- They ask for
- 3+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, PLC, Robotics, Automation
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Maintenance Technician roles in Texas: typical posted base $51k–$67k.
Median of the low and high ends of 3 live postings that list pay, out of 179 maintenance technician openings in Texas, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 180 other live reliability postings in Texas.
- Experience asked
- Typical (3+ years)
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 48%
- ✓ PLC 34%
- Welding 34%
- ✓ Root cause 27%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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- 3
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This plant: Lear in Grand Prairie
1 other open role at this site.
- Production Supervisor · Production · Supervisor
Full description from LearAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Essential Functions
- ◆Perform highly diversified duties to install and maintain production machines and the plant facility’s equipment.
- ◆Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production and performs scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service times.
- ◆Perform maintenance technician skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting and repair of production machines.
- ◆Read and interpret equipment manuals, schematics, machinery assembly drawings, and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
- ◆Diagnose process and machinery problems utilizing root cause failure analysis techniques, replace or repair equipment parts, test and adjust as required.
- ◆Perform regular preventive and predictive maintenance on machines, equipment, and plant facilities.
- ◆Use a variety of hand and power tools, basic shop machinery, electric meters, and material handling equipment in performing duties.
- ◆Comply with safety regulations and maintain clean and orderly work areas.
Required Education and General Maintenance Experience
High School Diploma/GED or Matriculation and completion of a craft apprenticeship, or an equivalent number of years of education and production maintenance experience
Minimum/Enrolled in 2-year Associates Degree/Technical College Accreditation- Industrial Mech/Elec/Automation
3+ years of maintenance technician experience with strong analysis and repair skills in electrical ac/dc systems, hydraulics, pneumatics, mechanical applications, power transmission systems, fluid mechanics/properties, tubing and hosing applications, operation of mobile equipment, and machine safeguarding.
Bonus Qualifications/ Experience
PLC and ladder logic design/troubleshooting
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