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Wastewater Preventative Maintenance

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Mentor, OHFull-time$20.4–34.51/hrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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Compensation
$20.4–34.51/hr
Location
Mentor, OH
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Wastewater Preventative Maintenance position involves repairing, inspecting, and maintaining buildings and process equipment at a wastewater treatment plant. The role includes scheduled preventive maintenance, equipment and machinery repairs, inventory and spare-parts organization, and grounds maintenance. Candidates should possess experience with routine plant equipment maintenance, lubrication schedules, asset management in an industrial setting, and techniques to prevent unplanned downtime. Wastewater treatment familiarity is preferable.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Plant Equipment MaintenanceEquipment LubricationAsset ManagementPreventive MaintenanceWastewater TreatmentElectronic Work OrdersWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationInterpersonal Relationships

Qualifications

Plant Equipment Maintenance Experience

Full job description

OhioMeansJobs | Lake County is accepting resumes for the following position: Position: Wastewater Preventative Maintenance Location: Mentor Hours: Full Time Pay: $20.40-$34.51 Position ID: 38131269 POSITION SUMMARY The Wastewater Preventative Maintenance position involves duties associated with the repair, inspection and maintenance of buildings and process equipment at the wastewater treatment plant. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Tracking and logging inventory, ordering supplies, organizing spare parts and equipment, data entry. - Perform regularly scheduled maintenance activities to prevent unexpected failures. - Cleaning, lubrication, oil changes, adjustments, repairs, inspecting and replacing parts, and partial or complete overhauls on equipment and machinery. - Operates light equipment including tractors, lawnmowers, pumps, and equipment transport vehicles. - General grounds maintenance including mowing lawn, trimming shrubs, edging sidewalks and driveways, snow removal, and painting. - Performs other related duties as required/assigned. - Candidates for this position should possess experience in routine plant equipment maintenance, equipment lubrication schedules, asset management in a factory/industrial setting, and techniques to proactively avoid unplanned equipment downtime. - Familiarity with wastewater treatment is preferable. - Familiarity with electronic work orders for maintenance. - Good written and verbal communication skills; ability to have effective working relationships with fellow coworkers, public officials, the public, contractors, consultants and customers is preferred. This position may require overtime, shift, weekend and holiday work. []{style="font-family: Geor "}

How this job compares

Set against the 6,657 open Maintenance Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$20.4–34.51/hr
  • Ohio median$28–34/hr169 hourly ranges
  • US median$27–34/hr3,042 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $27.46/hr, is 12% below the Ohio median midpoint ($31/hr) — in the middle half of Maintenance Technician hourly ranges in Ohio.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 479 open Maintenance Technician jobs in Ohio and 6,657 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Ohio
Experience
Maintenance Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 4 years (3,805 postings).
Education
25 of the 6,657 open Maintenance Technician jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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