Preventative Maintenance Tech
Nucor · Brigham City, UT
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Experience asked
- 1+ years
- Industry
- Metals
- Posted
- 8 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level reliability role at Nucor (metals) in Brigham City, UT. Continuous Learning: Develop skills by learning new equipment, maintenance practices, and predictive technologies.
- They ask for
- 1+ years
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Maintenance Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $57k–$86k.
Median of the low and high ends of 59 live postings that list pay, out of 2258 maintenance technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 22 other live reliability postings in Utah.
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (1+ vs 5+)
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Automation 39%
- PLC 39%
- Welding 30%
- Team leadership 30%
- Root cause 26%
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Qualifications
- ✓High School Diploma or GED
- ✓Basic understanding of industrial mechanical systems: bearings, belts, gearboxes, hydraulics, and pneumatics.
- ✓Experience in maintaining heavy industrial machinery/equipment
- ✓Willingness to work a continental night shift, 2-2-3, Noon to Midnight
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Technical/vocational training in industrial maintenance, mechanical technology, or electrical systems.
- ✓1 year industrial or mechanical maintenance experience
- ✓Ability to read and understand technical drawings
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Job Details
Shift: Continental Shift, 2-2-3, Noon to Midnight
Division: Nucor Buildings Group West LLC
Location: Brigham City, UT, United States
Other Available Locations: N/A
Preventative Maintenance Technician
Nucor Buildings Group is looking for a Preventative Maintenance Technician to join our team.
Do you enjoy hands-on work that keeps operations running safely and efficiently? Are you proactive, detail-oriented, and mechanically inclined? As a Preventative Maintenance Technician, you’ll perform routine maintenance, inspect equipment, and help prevent issues before they impact production.
Basic Job Functions
In this role, you will be responsible for supporting the reliability and performance of our equipment through thorough inspections, routine maintenance, and consistent documentation. Your work will directly support production uptime, team safety, and equipment longevity.
include, but aren’t limited to
· Preventive Maintenance Execution: Perform PM tasks such as inspections, lubrication, adjustments, and minor repairs using established checklists.
· Equipment Inspection & Care: Inspect conveyors, rollers, cranes, furnaces, cooling systems, and other equipment to identify wear or potential issues.
· Technical Support: Use diagnostic tools to assess equipment.
· Documentation & Reporting: Record findings, completed work, and equipment conditions accurately in logs and digital systems.
· Collaboration: Work with maintenance teammates and operators to communicate equipment status and support smooth shift transitions.
· Continuous Learning: Develop skills by learning new equipment, maintenance practices, and predictive technologies.
Safety is the most important part of all jobs within Nucor; therefore, candidates must be able to demonstrate the ability to initiate, lead, and uphold safety policies, practices, procedures, and housekeeping standards at all times.
About Us
Nucor Buildings Group (NBG), a proud Nucor product group, is one of North America’s largest and most experienced manufacturers of metal building systems. With multiple locations throughout the United States, NBG is proud to design world-class building solutions tailored to meet the needs of any market including commercial, industrial, agricultural, and institutional. Our brands include American Buildings, CBC Steel Buildings, Kirby Building Systems, and Nucor Building Systems.
NBG offers work/life balance and a variety of benefits and performance incentives. We take pride in connecting teammates to meaningful work and focus heavily on both personal and professional development. Whether your background is in engineering and design, information technology and software development, marketing, or sales, with Nucor Buildings Group you can go as far as your drive and ambition will take you.
Why Nucor?
When you join Nucor, America’s largest steel manufacturer and recycler, you’ll help create a variety of steel products that become so much more, for so many people. And you won’t do it alone. Our supportive culture builds each other up, values family, relationships, and puts safety above anything else. With the freedom to take your ideas to the next level, there’s no end to what you can achieve. This is your chance to build a lifelong career, give back to your community, make the world a better place – and BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER .
Job Security – Benefits – Bonus Programs
Join us in driving success and shaping the future of our division. Apply now and become an integral part of our team!