Maintenance Technician

About Essex Solutions

Essex Solutions manufactures the world’s most reliable magnet wire, solidifying us as the key provider for OEMs in the automotive industry and partner of choice in the energy, industrial, commercial, and residential sectors. Vertical integration of R&D, rod, and enamels, as well as distribution accelerates our manufacturing capabilities, positioning Essex as the world’s unrivaled leader in the industry. With a proven history and global footprint spanning three continents, Essex is the only supplier well positioned to meet the needs of customers and deliver locally in each region of the world.

Our customer partnerships lead to revolutionary innovations that push the industry forward and promote our shared success. For more information, visit

The incumbent performs functions to maintain electrical components and mechanical maintenance of building and equipment to ensure efficient operation of production utilizing skills and experience to perform required electrical maintenance tasks with minimal supervision.

This position works a staggered 12 hour shift, 8pm-8am.

• Wears appropriate safety equipment and follows established safety practices and procedures.
• Performs repairs to all mechanical, electrical, and electronic equipment within the facility with little or no guidance and support, including fabricating components from various ferrous and non‑ferrous materials.
• Diagnoses system issues to quickly and effectively find faults, errors, missing data, intermittent or shorted circuits and promptly repairs them using the appropriate techniques to ensure safety of self and others.
• Prioritizes work to meet the needs of the customers and shareholders of the plant, working with plant leadership to ensure priorities and commitments are consistent with and meet the needs of the Johnson County operation.
• Performs preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, building service requests, and tours; identifies components or elements that are not meeting the design intent and restores the system to full capability, which may involve polishing, grinding, welding, or re‑fitting parts to a process.
• Generates detailed reports on building power failures and electrical equipment or system failures, updating these reports to capture relevant data for plant and process operations.
• Recommends procedural changes, equipment modifications, etc., that will improve operational reliability of electrical and mechanical systems, efficiently ranking and prioritizing changes to meet plant goals; thinks of tactical responses to mitigate production risks.
• Operates maintenance equipment such as a lathe, mill, drill press, and surface grinder as necessary for fabrication and repair.
• Completes required production forms and reports.
• Maintains housekeeping in assigned work area.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Ability to work any shift and overtime.
• Ability to lift and carry 70 pounds.
• Ability to read calipers and/or micrometers.
• Ability to troubleshoot and read blueprints.
• Ability to read all meters of electrical and electronic equipment.
• Ability to work at heights.
• Ability to operate various powered industrial material handling equipment.
• Ability to complete a variety of paperwork.
• Ability to read an oscilloscope.

Must be able to input required information into the computer.

High School Diploma required. Prefer 3 to 5 years of electrician, electronics technician, industrial maintenance, or computer repair technician experience and/or an associate’s degree or equivalent in applied science or equivalent.