Lead Maintenance Technician - Night (D) Shift

About the role

The Maintenance Technician Lead is responsible for supervising and directing maintenance employees during assigned shifts while ensuring compliance with all safety regulations and quality standards. This role includes maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, and improving manufacturing equipment and facility systems to support safe, efficient plant operations. The position works closely with production, quality, automation, and maintenance teams to ensure operational reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Report to front line leadership.
• Meet with the overlapping shifts and provide the update to communicate the starting work assignments.
• Example Production Support Work, PM’s, W/O’s, Project Work or Shop Work.
• Coordinate Preventative Maintenance schedules, weekend & nightly assignments to the Maintenance Mgr. and Production Mgr.
• Review the daily inspection sheets & complete the necessary maintenance paperwork from the previous day and file or forward to the appropriate party.
• Example PM’s & W/O’s for closing, Daily Tech sheets file, inspection sheets review & file, purge files as needed.
• Any changes in trending should be communicated with suggestion of improvement immediately.
• Hands On auditing of PM’s and the requirements, to be conducted on a routine basis.
• Hands On Production Support as needed. Example Fill in for vacationing technicians, aid in training operators & technicians, extra support to identify and correct mechanical problem areas.
• Office work to cover 30% to 40% of the day while the Hands on Shop Floor presences should average 60% to 70% routinely.
• Hands on Project Work / Shop Work. Example: Rebuilding of replacement parts, securing of the shop and tools, cycle counting inventory as needed, etc.
• Provide the shop floor with a positive can-do attitude and provide the trouble shooting direction required to support manufacturing’s daily demand