Last updated: November 2026
Industrial maintenance technicians keep production lines running in food, pharma, aerospace, automotive and consumer goods plants. The openings we list include maintenance electrician and instrumentation jobs, all with the pay shown. In November 2026, the median starting pay across this group was $38.01 an hour (yearly salaries converted at 2,080 hours).
Current industrial maintenance jobs
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Featured employers hiring now
These employers had a live industrial maintenance, electrician or instrumentation job on MaintenanceJob.tech when we checked in November 2026 (jobs later marked filled are left out):
Maintenance technician and mechanic roles:
- 3M, Maintenance Technician – Boiler House, Cordova, IL
- Abbott, Maintenance Technician – 12hr Day Shift, Casa Grande, AZ
- General Mills, Maintenance Technician – Blue Buffalo (Night Shift), Joplin, MO
- Mars, Electro-Mechanical Maintenance Technician, Elizabethtown, PA
- Merck, Senior Maintenance Technician (Night Shift), Elkhorn, NE
- Mondelēz International, Maintenance Mechanic, Chicago, IL
- Northrop Grumman, Maintenance Technician – Level 3 or Level 4 (C-Shift), Iuka, MS
- Rocket Lab, Equipment Maintenance Technician II, Long Beach, CA
- The Coca-Cola Company, Maintenance Technician, Apopka, FL
- Toyota, Skilled Maintenance Team Member, Blue Springs, MS
Industrial and maintenance electrician roles:
- Anheuser-Busch, Industrial Electrician, Cartersville, GA
- Caterpillar, Industrial Maintenance Electrician – 1st Shift, South Milwaukee, WI
- Generac, Industrial Maintenance Electrician – 1st Shift, Sussex, WI
- Kimberly-Clark, Electrical Reliability Technician, Chester, PA
- Micron Technology, Facilities Electrical Maintenance Technician – Hazardous Production Materials, Manassas, VA
- Relativity Space, Electrician II, Long Beach, CA
Instrumentation, controls and automation roles:
- Boeing, Electronic Maintenance Technician, Portland, OR
- Procter & Gamble, Automation Maintenance Technician (AGV), Dallas, TX
- The Clorox Company, Maintenance Technician / EIC, Forest Park, GA
- Unilever, Instrumentation / Electrical Technician, Hammond, IN
What the job looks like
- Preventive maintenance (PM) and repairs on conveyors, fillers, packaging lines, pumps, compressors and boilers
- Mechanical work (bearings, gearboxes, alignment, hydraulics, pneumatics) and electrical work (motors, VFDs, 480V, PLC inputs and outputs)
- 12-hour or rotating shifts are common. On our board in November 2026: 3M, Clorox, Abbott and Merck.
- Sign-on bonuses are common too: $10,000 (Mars), $5,000 (Kimberly-Clark, Generac), $2,000 (Caterpillar).
Pay: our jobs vs. national data
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a May 2025 median of $64,100 a year ($30.82 an hour) for industrial machinery mechanics, machinery maintenance workers and millwrights, and $74,550 for electricians in manufacturing. Sources: BLS industrial machinery mechanics and BLS electricians.
The jobs on our board in November 2026 tended to start higher. Examples: 3M $49.20 an hour, Unilever $44.75 rising to $49.64 an hour, Toyota $35.90 rising to $47.10 an hour. See the salary guide.
Outlook
BLS projects 14% employment growth for this group from 2025 to 2035 (18% for industrial machinery mechanics), much faster than average, with about 51,900 openings a year. BLS links this growth to more automated machinery and conveyors that need regular maintenance.
How to get hired
- High school diploma or GED, plus a 2-year industrial maintenance program, an apprenticeship, or military technical training
- Show both mechanical and electrical skills. Plants pay more for techs who can do both.
- Learn PLC basics (Allen-Bradley or Siemens), lockout/tagout and NFPA 70E
- Read industrial vs. facilities maintenance to choose your path.
Quick answers
What is the difference between a maintenance technician and a maintenance mechanic?
Mostly the title. Mechanic jobs often lean mechanical, while technician jobs more often include electrical and PLC work. Check the job description and the pay.
Do industrial maintenance technicians need a license?
Usually not, unless the job is an electrician job in a state that requires an electrical license. Some plants ask for a journeyman card.