Millwright/Mechanic (Owensboro, KY) - Austin Industrial

Austin-Industrial; Owensboro (KY); On-site; USD 34,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, life and disability保险

401K match

ESOP - Employee Owned

Job summary

Austin Industrial is seeking a Millwright/Mechanic in Owensboro, KY for a full-time, on-site role. You will diagnose mechanical failures, repair industrial equipment, and perform preventive maintenance in a manufacturing environment.

This position is part of a 100% employee-owned company (ESOP) with strong safety and quality standards. Qualifications include 3–5 years of Journeyman level experience, pre-employment screening, and legal authorization to work in the United States.

Qualifications

• Experience – 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.
• Must pass pre-employment physical, drug screening and background check.
• Full-time, 40 hours/week, on-site; no per diem or relocation funding.
• Authorized to work in the United States; Austin cannot sponsor visas.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoots, repairs, and industrial mechanical equipment.
• Replace defective parts and adjust clearances and alignment.
• Tests, repairs, or installs mechanical units such as pumps, governors, brakes, and more.
• Rebuild pumps, cylinders, and other equipment; align machines with tools.
• Fabricates repair parts; work requiring PPE; perform varied positions and movements.

Skills

Mechanical troubleshooting

Preventive maintenance

Machine alignment

Fabrication

Safety PPE use

Tools

Hoists

Jacks

Micrometers

Hand tools

Job description

Millwright/Mechanic (Owensboro, KY) - Austin Industrial

Job Category: Craft

Requisition Number: MILLW033595

• Posted : August 28, 2026


• Full-Time


• On-site


• Rate : $30 USD per hour

Locations

Showing 1 location

Owensboro, KY, USA

Description

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

This is a fulltime job opportunity working 40 hours a week (4/10's). There is no per diem and no relocation funding.

Millwright/Mechanic

Millwright/Mechanic diagnoses mechanical failures and makes needed repairs to industrial mechanical equipment. Duties include providing mechanical support, preventative maintenance, installation, service, repair, troubleshooting and resolution of multiple operating machines within a manufacturing industrial environment. This is accomplished by performing the following essential duties and responsibilities. Other duties may be assigned.

Responsibilities for this Position:

• Troubleshoots, repairs, and industrial mechanical equipment.


• Replace defective parts of machine or adjust clearances and alignment of moving parts.


• Tests, repairs, or installs mechanical units, such as water pumps, fuel pumps, governors, distributors, carburetors systems, brakes, clutches, and other such devices.


• Replaces bearings, chains, sprockets, and a variety of other machine parts.


• Rebuild pumps, cylinders, and various mechanical equipment as necessary following standard operating procedures.


• Align machines and equipment, using hoists, jacks, hand tools, squares, rules, micrometers, and plumb bobs.


• Fabricates repair parts if necessary.


• Must be able to perform work wearing personnel protective equipment. Including but not limited to the following: rain gear, chemical protective clothing, supplied air and air purifying respirators, safety harness, sand blast hoods, fire resistant coveralls, hard hat, ear plugs and safety glasses.


• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to have full range of mobility in upper and lower body, able to reach overhead, able to work in various positions, including, but not limited to, stooping, standing, bending over, sitting, kneeling, squatting; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; work at heights; climb stairs; balance for extended periods of time.


• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Experience – 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.

Must pass pre-employment physical, drug screening and background check, as a condition of employment.

This is a fulltime job opportunity working 40 hours a week (4/10's). There is no per diem and no relocation funding.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan. We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP)! To learn more about Austin, please go to https://www.austin-ind.com/our-company/who-we-are .

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes, or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy.The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

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