Preventative Maintenance Tech

Preventative Maintenance Technician

Nucor Buildings Group is looking for a Preventative Maintenance Technician to join our team.

Do you enjoy hands-on work that keeps operations running safely and efficiently? Are you proactive, detail-oriented, and mechanically inclined? As a Preventative Maintenance Technician, you’ll perform routine maintenance, inspect equipment, and help prevent issues before they impact production.

Basic Job Functions:

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting the reliability and performance of our equipment through thorough inspections, routine maintenance, and consistent documentation. Your work will directly support production uptime, team safety, and equipment longevity. Responsibilities include, but aren’t limited to:

· Preventive Maintenance Execution: Perform PM tasks such as inspections, lubrication, adjustments, and minor repairs using established checklists.

· Equipment Inspection & Care: Inspect conveyors, rollers, cranes, furnaces, cooling systems, and other equipment to identify wear or potential issues.

· Technical Support: Use diagnostic tools to assess equipment.

· Documentation & Reporting: Record findings, completed work, and equipment conditions accurately in logs and digital systems.

· Collaboration: Work with maintenance teammates and operators to communicate equipment status and support smooth shift transitions.

· Continuous Learning: Develop skills by learning new equipment, maintenance practices, and predictive technologies.

Safety is the most important part of all jobs within Nucor; therefore, candidates must be able to demonstrate the ability to initiate, lead, and uphold safety policies, practices, procedures, and housekeeping standards at all times.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED


• Basic understanding of industrial mechanical systems: bearings, belts, gearboxes, hydraulics, and pneumatics.


• Experience in maintaining heavy industrial machinery/equipment


• Willingness to work a continental night shift, 2-2-3, Noon to Midnight

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical/vocational training in industrial maintenance, mechanical technology, or electrical systems.


• 1 year industrial or mechanical maintenance experience


• Ability to read and understand technical drawings

About Us:

Nucor Buildings Group (NBG), a proud Nucor product group, is one of North America’s largest and most experienced manufacturers of metal building systems. With multiple locations throughout the United States, NBG is proud to design world-class building solutions tailored to meet the needs of any market including commercial, industrial, agricultural, and institutional. Our brands include American Buildings, CBC Steel Buildings, Kirby Building Systems, and Nucor Building Systems.

NBG offers work/life balance and a variety of benefits and performance incentives. We take pride in connecting teammates to meaningful work and focus heavily on both personal and professional development. Whether your background is in engineering and design, information technology and software development, marketing, or sales, with Nucor Buildings Group you can go as far as your drive and ambition will take you.

Why Nucor?

When you join Nucor, America’s largest steel manufacturer and recycler, you’ll help create a variety of steel products that become so much more, for so many people.  And you won’t do it alone.  Our supportive culture builds each other up, values family, relationships, and puts safety above anything else.  With the freedom to take your ideas to the next level, there’s no end to what you can achieve.  This is your chance to build a lifelong career, give back to your community, make the world a better place – and BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER.

Job Security – Benefits – Bonus Programs

With performance-based compensation, profit sharing, and a no-layoff practice, we take care of our teammates who design, engineer, fabricate, and support the products that define our company.

Join us in driving success and shaping the future of our division. Apply now and become an integral part of our team!