Demo

Mining Maintenance Technician

Turner Mining Group
Soda Springs, ID Full Time
POSTED ON 10/25/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/24/2026

** Maintenance Technician **

**Reports to: Maintenance Superintendent **– Turner Mining Group

Job Description:

The Maintenance Technician is a skilled mining maintenance position within Turner Mining Group. This position will focus on maintaining equipment. The successful candidate must live the Turner Values and be an outward example to others. This position must demonstrate a strong commitment to “Safe Production” through decision making, priorities, and client relations.

Objectives and Contributions:

The Maintenance Technician is focused on key aspects that drive communication and safe production while maintaining a high level of efficiency, proactive training metrics, and preventive maintenance awareness requirements. The Maintenance Technician demonstrates safety ownership at a personal level and holds other crew members to the same high standard. The Maintenance Technician also assists in other production support functions as assigned.

  • Work with employees to ensure a high level of accuracy and engagement on hazard identification and control

  • Engage crews and leadership to define processes that motivate working towards common goals

  • Assist with MSHA regulatory training and verify compliance to standards

  • Live the values as part of a visible daily decision-making process

  • Assist with training proficiency audits

  • Involvement in risk assessment processes at various levels of the organization

  • Holds themselves and others accountable for acting like an owner (taking care of equipment, not wasting resources, using time wisely, and being accountable for conditions and behaviors)

  • Maintains a high standard of housekeeping (machine and work areas)

Culture and Communication:

  • Can effectively communicate in English (multi-lingual preferred)

  • Participate with site and project leaders to identify areas of improvement

  • Work with crews to support proactive near miss reporting

  • Leads by example (walks the talk)

Systems:

  • Ability to perform quality pre-operation machine inspections (Based on mobile equipment physical demands analysis)

  • Accurately documents 5000-23 and training checklist requirements

  • Other regulatory \& internal / external forms as required

Travel and New Site Development:

  • Maintains a valid and insurable driving license

  • Available to travel on short notice to support timelines and production requirements at existing sites (Preferred)

Time and Interactions:

  • The Maintenance Technician must be flexible on shift schedules (days and nights) to assist with training and production needs

  • The Maintenance Technician will be self-starting, motivated, with a strong desire to be part of a team and to influence improvement. Communication is also critical to keep leadership and site-based personnel in the loop of successes, challenges, and any additional support that may be required

  • Excellent time management skills

Qualifications:

  • Willingness and ability to adhere to OSHA / MSHA regulatory requirements

  • 1-3 years’ experience in mining / heavy industry preferred

  • Working knowledge of safety systems and processes

  • Appropriate attention to detail required

  • Strong communication skills

  • Strong morals and values

  • Exemplary attendance record

  • Exemplary safety and disciplinary record

  • Willingness to be flexible on daily job duty requirements

  • Maintains a positive outspoken learning attitude

  • Diploma in Heavy Equipment or Diesel Maintenance or equivalent education or experience from a recognized college or trade school

  • The Maintenance Technician must be able to safely perform each of the following tasks:

  • Operate maintenance service truck

  • G.E.T replacement

  • Replace equipment attachments

  • Execute minor equipment repairs

  • Execute preventive maintenance

  • ** Execute precision backlog repairs**

  • Operate fuel / lube truck

  • Operate Fueling / lubing equipment with emphasis on contamination control

  • Equipment fluid level monitoring with emphasis on contamination control

  • Obtain oil samples from lubricated equipment utilizing contamination control standards

  • Marshall equipment

  • Wash equipment

Other Duties:

  • In addition to the job skills above, there may be requirements for manual tasks to be completed to meet other business needs. Operators in any job duty classification may be required to participate in these additional tasks.

Physical Demands:


The physical requirements listed below are essential functions of this position and must be performed, with or without reasonable accommodation:

  • Weight Requirement: Ability to meet equipment manufacturer’s safety requirements, including a body weight under 330 pounds.

  • Mobility \& Posture: Ability to kneel, crouch, squat, climb stairs, and climb ladders repeatedly.

  • Reaching \& Movement: Ability to reach forward and overhead, and to perform sustained or repetitive movements of the neck, hands, wrists, and ankles/feet.

  • Strength \& Endurance: Ability to push and pull with a force of at least 100 pounds.

  • Ability to lift, carry, and set down objects weighing up to 100 pounds.

  • Ability to lift and carry objects overhead weighing up to 45 pounds.

  • Ability to lift and move items from floor level to waist, shoulder, and overhead levels.

  • Ability to carry weights over distances of at least 20 feet.

  • Repetition \& Duration: Ability to perform the above motions multiple times in succession and sustain activity for extended periods.

­­­­

­

|NORTH AMERICA’S TRUSTED MINING SERVICES PROVIDER| turnermining.com 812-277-9077 | 304 W. Kirkwood Ave, Ste. 100 Bloomington­, IN 47404 |Join us as we CHANGE THE GAME | |—|—|—|—|

image1.png

image2.png

image3.png

image4.png

image5.png

image6.svg

image7.png

image8.svg

image9.png

image10.svg

Salary : $30 - $32

If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right. Surveys & Data Sets

What is the career path for a Mining Maintenance Technician?

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs on the Mining Maintenance Technician career path by checking the boxes next to the positions that interest you.
Income Estimation: 
$41,442 - $52,634
Income Estimation: 
$48,653 - $61,184
Income Estimation: 
$54,822 - $71,584
Income Estimation: 
$64,022 - $86,170
Employees: Get a Salary Increase
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

Job openings at Turner Mining Group

  • Turner Mining Group Elko, NV
  • Turner Staffing Group is seeking an Industrial Hygiene Technician I to support our mining client in the Elko area. This is a planned 6-month project-based ... more
  • 1 Day Ago

  • Turner Mining Group Charles, WV
  • Project Lead – Site Development & Underground Utilities Location: Charles Town, WV Position Type: Direct Placement (Full-Time, Permanent) Software System: ... more
  • 1 Day Ago

  • Turner Mining Group Winnemucca, NV
  • This position will oversee and supervise a group of workforce employees in a skilled area of production and maintenance while maintaining morale, attendanc... more
  • 2 Days Ago

  • Turner Mining Group Syracuse, NY
  • What You'll Be Doing Perform mechanical maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairs on plant equipment to ensure safe and reliable operation Conduct inspecti... more
  • 2 Days Ago


Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Mining Maintenance Technician jobs in the Soda Springs, ID area that may be a better fit.

  • Turner Mining Group Soda Springs, ID
  • Senior Maintenance Technician Reports to: Foreman – Turner Mining Group Job Description: The Senior Maintenance Technician is the most skilled mining maint... more
  • 12 Days Ago

  • Western States Careers Soda Springs, ID
  • ABOUT WESTERN STATES EQUIPMENT: Western States has a long legacy of providing quality equipment and excellent service to customers. Since 1956, our vision ... more
  • 28 Days Ago

AI Assistant is available now!

Feel free to start your new journey!