Maintenance Technician - 1st shift

Siemens; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 73,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens in Sacramento, CA, is seeking a Maintenance Technician to troubleshoot and repair diesel engines, heavy machinery, and forklifts within a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This first shift role covers preventive maintenance, startups, and improvement projects in collaboration with a skilled engineering and maintenance team.

You will document activities, support safety initiatives, and contribute to ongoing reliability and uptime efforts across facilities.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years hands-on experience in industrial maintenance.
• Experience with diesel engines and heavy equipment.
• Ability to read schematics and maintain documentation.
• Willingness to work in non-climate-controlled environments.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot, repair, and perform preventive maintenance on facility equipment, including diesel engines, transportation equipment, heavy machinery, and large forklifts.
• Plan and execute assigned maintenance projects with minimal supervision, ensuring safety, efficiency, and uptime.
• Support equipment installations, ramp-ups, setups, startups, and commissioning activities with engineers and teams.
• Perform maintenance, modifications, and repairs across facility equipment, diagnosing problems and selecting solutions.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation and mentor junior technicians when needed.

Skills

Industrial maintenance

Troubleshooting

Mechanical knowledge

Electrical systems

Safety awareness

Job description

Pioneering in America, from the first mile to the last. This is what drives us.

Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to our employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html

Position Overview

Bring your troubleshooting skills to a role where you’ll solve real mechanical and electrical challenges and help keep a fast-paced manufacturing operation moving. As a Maintenance Technician, you’ll work hands‑on with diesel engines, heavy machinery, forklifts, and advanced manufacturing equipment while supporting repairs, preventive maintenance, equipment startups, and improvement projects alongside a skilled engineering and maintenance team.

This is a first shift position.

What Your Day May Look Like

• Troubleshoot, repair, and perform preventive maintenance on facility equipment, including diesel engines, transportation equipment, heavy machinery, and large forklifts, addressing both mechanical and electrical issues.
• Plan and execute assigned maintenance projects with minimal supervision, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and with a focus on equipment reliability and uptime.
• Support equipment installations, ramp-ups, setups, startups, and commissioning activities, partnering with Industrial Engineers and other teams to prepare machinery for safe and effective operation.
• Perform maintenance, modifications, and repairs across a variety of facility equipment, using technical knowledge to diagnose problems and determine the appropriate solution.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation and support the maintenance team by updating equipment and process information, reporting technical issues, and providing guidance to junior technicians when needed.

This posting outlines the primary responsibilities of the role, but is not all-inclusive; additional duties may be assigned in alignment with business needs.

What Will Make You Thrive In This Role

• 3–5 years of hands‑on experience in industrial maintenance, equipment repair, assembly, or machine installation within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with experience supporting mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.
• Proven ability to diagnose complex equipment issues, perform repairs, and work independently with minimal supervision.
• Experience reading technical drawings, schematics, manuals, and maintaining accurate maintenance documentation.
• Familiarity with diesel engines and heavy equipment; experience with Deutz engines is a plus.
• Strong communication, teamwork, and problem‑solving skills with a commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

Additional Information

Upon offer of employment, candidates will be subject to a background check and drug screen.

• Frequently walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Frequently required to climb stairs, steps, and ladders
• Frequently required to work on elevated platforms.
• Perform work overhead.
• Occasionally lift and move at most 40 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Candidates should be willing to work in non‑climate‑controlled environments and inclement weather if required or if applicable.

Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without needing current or future employer‑sponsored work authorization.

Purpose is the reason a company exists. It's not about making money or selling products - it's the deeper "why" behind everything we do. It answers the question: What problem are we solving? What positive change are we creating?

For Siemens, our purpose has been clear for over 175 years: We create technology to transform the everyday, for everyone.

The world needs technologies that work. Technologies that matter. Technologies that solve today's challenges and help shape a better tomorrow. And that's exactly what we build. By bringing together the real world (factories, buildings, power grids, trains) with the digital world (software, data, AI, digital twins), we help our customers become more competitive, resilient, and sustainable.

Our technology is everywhere - in trains and transportation, we help move people faster, safer, and more sustainably.

$72,702.00 $85,414.00