Job Title: Maintenance Technician (Updated 08.25.2025)
Location: Oakwood, Oklahoma
Status: Full-time, Hourly Non-Exempt
Reports To: Maintenance Supervisor
Position Summary:
We are currently seeking a Maintenance Technician for our facility in Oakwood, OK. Responsible for performing highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain production and facility equipment according to safety, predictive and productive maintenance systems and processes to support the achievement of the plant’s business goals and objectives. This is a full-time, non-exempt position that reports directly to the Maintenance Supervisor.
Job Responsibilities:
- Perform highly diversified duties to maintain plant equipment
- Provide emergency/ unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production and performs scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service
- Perform mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting and repair of production machines
- Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service
- Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test and make adjustments
- Perform regular preventative maintenance on machines, equipment, and plant facilities
- Use a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters and material handling equipment in performing duties
- Participate in the maintenance On-Call system
- Detect faulty operations, defective material and report those and any unusual situation to proper supervision
- Comply with MSHA regulations and maintain clean and orderly work areas
- Other duties as assigned
Education & Experience:
- A minimum of three years combined manufacturing/processing work experience and schooling
- High School Diploma, GED or equivalent work experience
- Associate degree or technical school equivalent preferred
- Welder certification preferred
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Must be able to perform duties in a safe manner
- Must have strong electrical and controls troubleshooting, welding experience, hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, and industrial skills
- Must be able to work in adverse working conditions such as heat, wet, cold, noise, etc.
- Must be able to work 8-12 hour shifts, weekends, overtime, and holidays as needed
- Strong communication skills
Physical Requirements & Working Conditions:
- All duties require outside assignments and require periods of work in all weather conditions-heat, cold, wet or dry and dusty
- Safety-sensitivity position
- Ability to climb stairs, climb ladders, reach, stoop, squat, tolerate prolonged standing/walking, balance, bend, twist, crawl, kneel, push and pull objects
- Ability to operate hand controls with both hands
- Ability to operate mobile equipment, foot pedals with both feet
- Ability to perform sustained overhead reaching
- Ability to tolerate working outdoors in all environmental temperatures and weather
- Ability to work in cramped quarters
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and carry up to 150 feet
- Ability to tolerate working at heights up to 150 feet
- Safety-sensitivity position
Equal Opportunity Employer:
SPS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment 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.
Company Overview:
Signal Peak Silica, LLC, (“SPS”) headquartered in Houston, TX, is a leading manufacturer and reseller of high quality frac sand operating facilities in Texas and Oklahoma. SPS is focused on providing high-quality frac sand in close proximity to its customers, while also being committed to protecting the health and safety of its employees and the communities it serves.