Lead Maintenance Technician 3rd Shift

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Lead Maintenance Technician to support 3rd shift from the hours of 11:00pm–7:30am ET to provide leadership for safe, efficient, and high-quality maintenance support by prioritizing work, troubleshooting complex equipment issues, and mentoring technicians. Serving as the primary maintenance contact during off-shifts, this role improves response time, technician capability, equipment reliability, and alignment between maintenance, production, and site leadership.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior maintenance presence on the assigned shift, providing technical leadership and support to the maintenance team with advanced troubleshooting, problem-solving, and root cause analysis of complex equipment issues.
• Prioritize and assign maintenance work based on production needs, equipment criticality, and urgency.
• Coordinate emergency repairs and troubleshooting activities to minimize equipment downtime and production disruptions.
• Identify equipment reliability concerns and recurring failures and escalate issues requiring additional technical or management support.
• Mentor, coach, and support the onboarding, training, and development of maintenance technicians to strengthen technical capabilities and improve overall team effectiveness.
• Ensure compliance with lockout/tagout (LOTO), safety procedures, and safe work practices during all maintenance activities.
• Communicate equipment status, major issues, downtime, and shift activities to maintenance and site management.
• Collaborate with Production and Manufacturing Engineering to resolve equipment issues and improve equipment reliability and performance.
• Ensure preventive maintenance (PM) tasks are completed on schedule and meet required quality standards.

Qualifications

• Typically requires an AA/AS degree (or other 2-year post high school training) with a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.
• Industrial maintenance experience in a manufacturing or production environment.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting and repairing mechanical and electrical equipment.
• Experience serving as a lead, senior technician or equivalent technical leadership capacity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to work 3rd shift.
• Demonstrated ability to read and interpret electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, and equipment documentation.
• Formal technical training or certifications in electrical, mechanical, industrial maintenance, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting PLCs, HMIs, motor controls, sensors, VFDs, or other automated equipment.
• Experience with CMMS/SAP maintenance systems and preventive/predictive maintenance programs.
• Knowledge of OSHA, electrical safety, LOTO, and other industrial safety requirements.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Student Loan Repayment Program.
• Life insurance and disability coverage.
• Optional coverages: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection.
• Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits.
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning.
• Adoption Assistance.
• Autism Benefit.
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions.
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program.
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits.
• Bright Horizards, child and elder care services.
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $53,100 – $100,900 USD. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.