Maintenance Technician
STERIS · Spartanburg, SC
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Posted
- 20 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level reliability role at STERIS (medical devices) in Spartanburg, SC.
- They ask for
- 2+ years
- Tools it names
- Lean, 5S, FDA / GMP, PLC, Welding, Tooling
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
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.
South Carolina plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 70 other live reliability postings in South Carolina.
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (2+ vs 5+)
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 46%
- ✓ PLC 39%
- ✓ Welding 30%
- ✓ EHS / safety 28%
- Root cause 21%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Lean, FDA / GMP, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: STERIS in Spartanburg
1 other open role at this site.
- Project Maintenance Technician · Reliability · Technician
Maintenance Technician at STERIS in other locations
STERIS lists this title in 2 places. Pick the plant you can get to.
- Green Bay, WI · $47k–$61k
Full description from STERISAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Position Summary
The position of Maintenance Technician is a hands-on position, that provides technical expertise and participates in the maintenance, repair, and preventive maintenance of facility equipment to reduce downtime while increasing operational efficiency in a validated, cGMP environment. This equipment includes machinery, buildings, computer systems, control systems, safety, and security systems. Additionally, this position includes responsibility for maintaining shop tools, inventory, and keeping the department’s CMMS (computerized maintenance management system) updated all while adhering to Lean and 5S principles. This position will also be required to support after hours emergency response activities on an as needed basis. In addition, this position assists with the development and maintaining of parts inventory systems. Depending on the modality in which this role operates (i.e. Gamma), this is a physical role – requiring strength and endurance.
Employee Schedule: 7PM-7AM
Pay Range: $25 with additonal shift differential as applicable
Duties
- ◆Optimizes processing and reduces downtime by performing predictive and preventative maintenance on all equipment, machinery and facility buildings; participating in the installation of new equipment as required.
- ◆Contributes to maintaining a safe, secure and clean workplace by conducting the daily, weekly, quarterly and semi-annual safety/maintenance inspections according to pre-established guidelines and schedules; completes related paperwork in a timely and accurate manner to GMP standards.
- ◆Contributes to production efficiency by responding to maintenance calls on a 24 hour 7 days per week basis as assigned, rotating on-call responsibility, investigates reason for call in, and either repairs or defers action for immediate supervisor decision; maintaining a spare parts program.
- ◆Maintains building climate by installing, repairing and servicing ventilation, heat and air conditioning systems.
- ◆Complies with all environmental
requirements
for waste.
- ✓Maintains facility lighting by installing and repairing wiring and fixtures.
- ✓Monitors production efficiency by maintaining and analyzing a production downtime record.
- ✓Ensures employee safety by adhering to all Lock-out, Tag out procedures; following the MSDS safety procedures when using chemicals.
- ✓Strives for continuous improvement by analyzing new or alternative ways to improve operations; incorporates staff recommendations into analysis; responds to audit activities in a constructive manner and uses findings to improve operations where possible.
- ✓Maintains mechanical and technical skills knowledge and abilities by attending workshops, reviews trade publications and participates in training others to conduct minor, basic repairs to equipment, machinery, etc. Completes any training deficiency as noted.
Duties - cont'd
- ◆Successfully meets the
requirements
of irradiator operator.
- ✓Successfully completes electrical and OSHA classes as demonstrated through hands on task demonstration and written test.
- ✓Utilizes and updates spare part practices/policies/systems.
- ✓Completes other certifications, i.e., forklift, welding, boiler, pesticide applicator, as identified by operator licenses/permits.
- ✓May be required to provide tools according to local policy.
- ✓Utilizes computer to complete work orders, forms, training, etc.
- ✓Contributes in a team effort by performing according to the guidelines outlined in the STERIS Code of Business Conduct, the GMP and other directives; supports the directives and decisions of higher level management; accomplishes other duties as assigned.
- ✓Provides protection to employees by promoting and issuing monitoring devices in hazard areas as required by safety rules. Complies with and promotes all hot work requirements.
- ✓Supports the Isomedix business imperatives of Growth, Operational Excellence, Leadership Excellence and Customer Focus, by acting with integrity, treating everyone with mutual respect, exhibiting a genuine commitment to the success of all employees, and delivering satisfaction to our Customers through teamwork, innovation and continuous improvement; this will be accomplished while acting safely and is defined as "The STERIS Way."
- ✓Exhibits a commitment to the Isomedix shared values of Customer Satisfaction and Continuous Improvement through ensuring defect-free workmanship, assisting others to meet the Customer’s needs, searching for efficient and effective ways to reduce waste, being active and accountable for Customer satisfaction, and satisfying the Customer’s needs with a sense of urgency.
Education Degree
- ✓High School Diploma or GED
Required Experience
- ✓Subject to passing Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) required background check.
- ✓Minimum of 2 years of related experience in positions demonstrating knowledge of maintenance systems, mechanical processes and production output in a manufacturing/industrial/military environment.
- ✓Ability to effectively read, write and verbally communicate in English. (English and Spanish in PR)
- ✓Ability to work independently under general guidelines and supervision.
- ✓Requires computer literacy to include word processing, spreadsheet and software capabilities.
- ✓Requires effective interpersonal skills as demonstrated through prior experience.
- ✓Above average organizing, analyzing and a minimum of Level 3 math skills (ratios, proportions, basic algebra) to determine organizational Customer and regulatory problems to formulate corrective action plans.
- ✓May require PLC/control experience.
- ✓Able to adapt to changing duties and responsibilities.
- ✓Requires working knowledge of pneumatics, hydraulics, mechanics or electrical applications.
- ✓Requires ability to read blueprints and schematics.
- ✓Normal hearing range sufficient to hear alarms, bells, horns, etc.
Preferred Experience
- ✓Experience supporting Lean practices and principles
Skills
