Mechanic Lead Mechanical Maintenance - Days
About The Position
The Maintenance Lead assists plant maintenance mechanics in coordinating and controlling plant and facility activities. The role helps plan and provide mechanical equipment maintenance, troubleshoot problems, and resolve issues involving manufacturing and building equipment. It maintains records—including work orders, SOPs, LOTO, and confined-space documentation—and equipment to reduce delays, costs, and breakdowns. The lead also contributes to a safe and respectful work environment. This is a daytime position. The role coordinates with plant and maintenance managers to assign work and priorities, supports maintenance and engineering activities, and helps improve equipment and manufacturing methods. It is responsible for maintenance work orders, responding to repair and parts needs, supporting spare-parts inventory, minimizing downtime, mentoring the team, enforcing safety expectations, and participating in root cause analysis. The position requires adherence to health, safety, and environmental policies and approved PPE requirements.
Requirements
- High school diploma or General Education Degree (GED).
- At least five years of hands-on experience in manufacturing maintenance, including mechanical, electrical, millwright, equipment installation, welding, and fabrication work.
- Understanding of PLCs, VFDs, and HMIs sufficient to communicate knowledgeably with management and outside contractors.
- Communication skills, accountability, attention to detail, organization, and time-management ability.
- Ability to respond productively to change and handle other assigned tasks.
- Ability to take initiative and make independent decisions.
- Adherence to safety protocols and proper use of approved PPE, including respirators when required; employees wearing respirators must be clean-shaven where the respirator seal meets the face to pass fit tests.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with layout and fabrication work.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate with plant and maintenance managers to assign projects, tasks, and priorities to mechanics and electricians.
- Assist electricians and engineers with routine tasks as needed.
- Provide input on preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs.
- Assist engineering and production departments with developing and executing ideas to improve products, machinery, and methods.
- Maintain plant machinery and equipment by completing preventive maintenance, breakdown, and project work orders.
- Respond to repair and parts requirements to maintain machinery in good condition.
- Assist with maintaining spare-parts inventory.
- Determine plant machinery needs and communicate repairs and adjustments to maintenance and production supervisors.
- Work with shift supervisors to solve problems and minimize equipment downtime and slowdowns.
- Mentor team members and monitor the craftsmanship of their work.
- Monitor and enforce maintenance-department job safety requirements and expectations.
- Participate in root cause analysis to eliminate recurring downtime events.
- Communicate, improve, and adhere to health, safety, and environmental policies, and promote a culture of safety.
Benefits
- Competitive pay of $42.64 per hour.
- 401(k) pre-tax and/or Roth after-tax retirement savings.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Medical, dental, disability, and life insurance.
- Holistic health and well-being programs.
- Flexible spending accounts for health and dependent care.
- Vision and other voluntary benefits and discounts.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- Paid parental leave, including maternity and paternity leave.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
