Maintenance Technician

Akkodis is seeking a Maintenance Technician II role is a Contract opportunity with a client located in Gurnee IL 60031 (Onsite). We’re ideally looking for applicants to have a solid background in the similar domain.

Title: Maintenance Technician II

Address: Gurnee IL 60031

Contract: 3+ Months

Pay Rate: $30 to $33/hr. (The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.)

Position Summary

The Maintenance Technician II is an experienced technical resource responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, and improving manufacturing equipment and facility systems. This position supports a highly regulated medical manufacturing environment and requires strong mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and troubleshooting capabilities.

The Maintenance Technician II is expected to work independently, respond effectively to equipment downtime, perform preventive and corrective maintenance, and partner closely with Operations, Engineering, Quality, and other support functions to ensure equipment reliability, safety, and production continuity.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair complex mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment issues.
• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on injection molding machines, auxiliary equipment, automation, assembly equipment, and facility systems.
• Support injection molding machines and associated manufacturing equipment.
• Troubleshoot electrical systems, motors, sensors, heaters, thermocouples, relays, contactors, and other machine controls.
• Troubleshoot hydraulic and pneumatic systems, including pumps, valves, cylinders, regulators, fittings, and related components.
• Respond to production equipment breakdowns with a strong sense of urgency and work to safely restore equipment to operation.
• Perform root cause troubleshooting on recurring equipment failures and recommend corrective actions to improve equipment reliability.
• Complete scheduled preventive maintenance activities accurately and on time.
• Support equipment installations, modifications, upgrades, and continuous improvement projects.
• Assist with troubleshooting and maintenance of robotic and automated manufacturing systems.
• Partner with Process Engineering, Automation Engineering, Tooling, and Operations to resolve equipment-related production issues.
• Identify opportunities to reduce equipment downtime, improve preventive maintenance effectiveness, and increase equipment reliability.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records, work orders, repairs, and parts usage within the site's maintenance system.
• Follow applicable safety requirements, Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and site procedures.
• Perform work in accordance with requirements associated with an FDA-registered, ISO 13485 medical manufacturing environment.
• Provide technical guidance and hands-on support to less-experienced maintenance technicians as needed.
• Assist with spare-parts identification and recommendations for critical manufacturing equipment.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, equipment uptime, and operational performance.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area.
• Perform additional maintenance and facility-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications Required

• Minimum 10 years of hands-on industrial maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong experience troubleshooting and repairing mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.
• Demonstrated ability to independently diagnose complex equipment failures.
• Experience performing preventive and corrective maintenance on production equipment.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, hydraulic diagrams, and pneumatic diagrams.
• Strong understanding of industrial electrical systems and machine controls.
• Working knowledge of Lockout/Tagout and industrial safety practices.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and effectively prioritize multiple equipment issues.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively with Operations, Engineering, Quality, and other technical functions.

Preferred

• Experience maintaining plastic injection molding equipment and associated auxiliary equipment.
• Experience with injection molding machine manufacturers such as Engel, Arburg, Milacron, or similar equipment.
• Experience troubleshooting robotics, automation, conveyors, dryers, chillers, temperature controllers, material handling systems, and related auxiliary equipment.
• PLC troubleshooting experience, particularly Allen-Bradley systems.
• Experience working in medical device, pharmaceutical, or other FDA-regulated manufacturing environments.
• Experience working within ISO 13485 or comparable quality management systems.
• Experience with CMMS/work-order systems.
• Technical degree, apprenticeship, journeyman certification, or equivalent industrial maintenance training preferred.

If you feel this is not something that you are currently interested in, but know of someone, that might be, please share the details with them or let me know their details so I can reach out to them!

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

· The California Fair Chance Act

· Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

· Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

· San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance