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Maintenance Tech I

Cadrex Manufacturing Solutions
Chippewa Falls, WI Full Time
POSTED ON 9/27/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/2/2026
Job Type

Full-time

Description

OVERVIEW

Cadrex is searching for a Maintenance Technician I to perform highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain production machinery, facility equipment, and physical structures according to safety and preventive maintenance systems and processes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Installs new production machinery and equipment
  • Visually inspects and listens to machines and equipment to locate causes of malfunctions
  • Diagnoses problems, replaces or repairs parts, tests, and adjusts
  • Detects faulty operations, defective materials or/or equipment and reports as required
  • Dismantles machines and equipment to gain access to problem area
  • Inspects and measures parts to detect wear, misalignment, or other problems
  • Provides emergency service and unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production and performs scheduled maintenance repairs to production equipment during machine service
  • Starts machines and equipment to test operation following repair
  • Repairs broken parts, replaces defective parts and motors, belts, and adjusts feed mechanisms
  • Connects wire to motors, fixtures, and other electrical equipment, replaces switches and fuses, and splices wire and insulates wire with friction tape
  • Performs regular preventative maintenance on machines and equipment
  • Patches or replaces plaster/plaster board and paints walls, ceilings, and trim of buildings
  • Clears clogged drains and replaces plumbing fixtures
  • Cleans work areas, tools, and equipment
  • Removes dirt, dust, grease, and waste material from machines
  • Cleans and lubricates machine parts
  • Performs routine housekeeping in and around buildings as required
  • May be required to use personal vehicle at times for work assignments
  • May be required to purchase own tools for use on the job

Requirements

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Demonstrated ability to operate a variety of hand tools, ability to understand mechanical processes, possess electronics knowledge, and possess a basic knowledge of hydraulics
  • Previous experience in a machine shop performing maintenance mechanic duties preferred
  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
  • Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance and/or repair instructions and manuals, and procedure manuals
  • Demonstrated ability to read electrical schematics

EDUCATION

  • Highschool Diploma

LOCATION

  • Onsite

SCHEDULE

  • M-Th; 6:00am - 4:30pm

WORK ENVIRONMENT

  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to the risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and occasionally loud.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

CADREX’S CORE VALUES

  • Safety first, rising to the challenge, collaboration, accountability, and doing the right thing

Total Compensation Includes

  • Health/dental/vision coverage
  • Employer-paid and supplemental life insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance
  • Generous paid time off and holiday pay
  • Monthly remote work stipend (for remote employees who qualify)
  • 401(k) investment plan, with an employer match of up to 4%
  • Education support program
  • Safety eyeglasses/shoe reimbursement
  • Referral bonuses
  • Bonus plan for all full-time employees

About Us

CADREX Manufacturing Solutions is a leading provider of complex sheet metal and machined production parts, assemblies, and weldments for a variety of end markets, including electrical transmission and distribution, warehouse automation, technology, aerospace & defense, medical, food, and industrials. With locations in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Washington, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Monterrey Mexico, CADREX offers numerous in-house manufacturing capabilities, including laser cutting, sheet metal fabrication, complex assembly, CNC punching, CNC machining, forming, robotic welding, stamping, fastener insertion, and tool and die manufacturing, to effectively serve customers with lights-out manufacturing capabilities for mid- to high-volume production. For more information, visit www.cadrex.com.

Cadrex provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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