Precision Maintenance Technician – Optics & High-Tech

AMETEK; Middlefield (CT); On-site; USD 89,544,000 - 110,208,000; Full time

Job summary

Zygo Corporation in Middlefield, CT is seeking a Maintenance Technician to maintain manufacturing equipment and facility systems, ensuring safe, reliable operations. You will perform preventive and corrective maintenance, troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and automated equipment, and support reliability improvements.

Join a team focused on precision, safety, and continuous improvement, working with Manufacturing and Engineering to maximize uptime and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or technical certification or military tech training preferred.
• 5+ years of industrial maintenance experience in manufacturing environments.
• Familiarity with vacuum systems, servo controls, motion-control, and CMMS is a plus.
• Strong troubleshooting involving mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and automated systems.
• Ability to read mechanical drawings and electrical schematics.
• Experience with PLC-controlled equipment and industrial automation; related certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Perform preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on manufacturing equipment and facility systems.
• Troubleshoot and repair mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, vacuum, and automated equipment issues.
• Respond to equipment failures and implement root‑cause corrective actions to minimize downtime.
• Support installation, startup, qualification, and maintenance of new equipment.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Reading drawings

Electrical schematics literacy

Problem solving

Teamwork & communication

Education

Associate degree or technical certification

Tools

CMMS

PLC‑controlled equipment

HVAC knowledge

Job description

Zygo Corporation in Middlefield, CT is seeking a Maintenance Technician to maintain manufacturing equipment and facility systems, ensuring safe, reliable operations. You will perform preventive and corrective maintenance, troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and automated equipment, and support reliability improvements.

Join a team focused on precision, safety, and continuous improvement, working with Manufacturing and Engineering to maximize uptime and efficiency.