
Maintenance Technician
ZF · Charleston, SC
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level reliability role at ZF (automotive) in Charleston, SC. Promotes a safe and secure work environment by following all applicable safety standards, policies, and procedures.
- Tools it names
- TPM, OEE, PLC, Machining, EHS / safety
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 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 1613 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 42 other live reliability postings in South Carolina.
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 56%
- ✓ PLC 33%
- Welding 28%
- Tooling 23%
- ✓ EHS / safety 23%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for TPM, OEE, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Reliability team at ZF
Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.
- 2
Send a short, curious note
One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.
- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- How does off-shift and weekend coverage work?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
Apply with someone vouching for you
If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
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Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
This plant: ZF in Charleston
4 other open roles at this site.
- Manufacturing Engineer · Manufacturing
- Controls Technician · Controls · Technician
- Plant Quality Engineer · Quality
- Production Supervisor · Production · Supervisor
Full description from ZFAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Preferred Skills and Experience
- ✓Familiarity with applicable Occupational Safety and Health Act
requirements
and regulations.
- ✓At least two years of maintenance experience in the automotive industry.
- ✓Experience programming Allen-Bradley PLCs.
- ✓Experience with Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) systems.
- ✓Experience with honing and machining processes.
Be part of our ZF team as Maintenance Technician and apply now!
Contact
Charnequa Butts
+1 843 740 2996
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Req ID 91260 | North Charleston, SC, United States WABCO Compressor Manufacturing Co
About the Team
The Maintenance Team helps keep production running safely and efficiently by maintaining mechanical, pneumatic, electrical, and hydraulic equipment. With limited supervision, team members diagnose, troubleshoot, and repair machinery while following all applicable safety standards and OSHA guidelines.
What You Can Look Forward to as a Maintenance Technician
- •Improves Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) by escalating equipment and production issues through appropriate channels to support timely resolution and greater efficiency.
- •Prioritizes work effectively, acts with urgency, meets deadlines, and supports operational goals.
- •Owns maintenance practices, procedures, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance safety, reliability, asset performance, and operational efficiency.
- •Adjusts priorities and actions as production demands, schedules, and urgent requests change while maintaining operational effectiveness.
- •Completes assigned work on schedule and in line with quality standards and business objectives.
- •Troubleshoots and repairs mechanical, pneumatic, electrical, PLC-related, and hydraulic systems during planned and unplanned downtime to reduce production disruptions.
- •Performs preventive maintenance on schedule to improve equipment reliability, strengthen machine performance, and maximize uptime.
- •Keeps equipment and tools in proper working condition to help prevent production interruptions and unnecessary downtime.
- •Analyzes downtime, identifies recurring mechanical or technical issues, and implements corrective actions to prevent repeat disruptions.
- •Helps maintain availability of critical replacement parts for key manufacturing equipment to minimize avoidable downtime.
- •Maintains accurate maintenance records, including equipment issues, repairs, preventive maintenance, and corrective actions.
- •Supports continuous improvement projects that enhance safety, quality, equipment reliability, and operational performance.
- •Promotes a safe and secure work environment by following all applicable safety standards, policies, and procedures.
- •Helps strengthen the ZF culture by contributing to a positive, collaborative, and productive workplace.
- •Completes special projects and performs other assigned duties in support of business objectives.
Your Profile as a Maintenance Technician
- •Two or more years of experience in an industrial maintenance technician role.
- •Understanding of production-line operations and workflows, including how maintenance affects safety, uptime, quality, and output.
- •Strong electrical skills, including understanding schematic diagrams.
- •Experience using a CMMS system
- •Strong troubleshooting skills and technical knowledge of mechanical, pneumatic, electrical, and hydraulic systems.
- •Knowledge of communication protocols and escalation procedures that support timely, accurate information flow during service events.
- •Ability to stay customer-focused and respond to production-line needs with professionalism and accountability.
- •Strong organizational, task-management, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- •Relevant coursework in a maintenance-related field; electrical certification or industrial electronics education preferred.
- •Advanced knowledge of common manufacturing and operations concepts, practices, and procedures.
- •Availability to work nights, weekends, holidays, shutdowns and overtime as needed.
- •Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- •Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
- •English-language proficiency.
Diversity commitment
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are more than just words for us. They are at the core of the ZF Way that propels our team members towards their utmost success. We strive to build and nurture a culture where inclusiveness is a natural reflex. We actively seek ways to remove barriers so that every member of ZF can rise to their full potential. We aim to embed this in our legacy through how we operate and build our products as we shape next generation mobility, safety, sustainability and social justice.
With four generations across 118 nationalities in 41 countries, ZF combines a unique variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas. Together, we solve problems, drive innovation and shape next generation mobility.
ZF does not offer visa sponsorship for this role (e.g., H-1B, TN), and candidates must be authorized to work in t
