Maintenance Lead

Job Summary:

Work with maintenance and departmental employees to resolve problems, coach, and train, build team-work, and to ensure all employees under their supervision work safely and effectively. This position will require a person with mechanical, electrical, troubleshooting, and planning skills. Required to assist in plant-wide troubleshooting as well as planning of unplanned and planned shutdowns to achieve the maximum amount of activity in the allotted time for repair. Will report directly to the maintenance manager.

In this role, you will:

• Scheduling 1.5 shifts of maintenance work for at least 50 percent of their task completed during the day:

• Including PMs and WO which have been issued by department managers for approximately three months’ worth of work;

• Will require the use of MP2 to organize and schedule task;

• Will require the use of MP2 to organize, print and instruct the maintenance personnel how to perform the repair/PM in a safe, organized, and expedited manner;

• Inspect PM’s completed by maintenance personnel and sign off that the PMs have been completed in the best manner for the machine:

• This will allow the maintenance department to achieve a higher level of preventative maintenance;

• Strong knowledge of Plantwide machinery and proper preventative maintenance procedures;

• Coordinate proactive maintenance replacements and large maintenance projects to make sure the proper resources are allocated to achieve a successful complete project:

• Strong Knowledge of class one equipment and effect on the bottom line of the plant;

• Manage the priority order of the down machinery to maximize the resources of each shift performing repairs:

• Problems solve with operators and leads any downtime greater than 1 hour in length and find the root cause of the downtime;

• Bring root cause analysis to the daily management meetings with maintenance supervisor and other leads and planner to evaluate cause and formulate solution;

• Assist Maintenance Personnel and Leads with problem solving activities which will help to Identify the root cause of failures in the plant;

• Assist the maintenance supervisor with developing a schedule for the next 3 + months of maintenance activities and relaying this information to departmental managers which will allow the department managers to evaluate the priority of work orders put in to maintenance;

• Manage open work orders to make sure that completed work orders are canceled from the MP2 system and open work orders are assigned to maintenance personnel;

• Assist with the Formulation of New PMs for Operators and Maintenance;

• Assist in the training of operators and maintenance of new PMs and proactive maintenance required on all machines.

• Ability to work safely and set a good example following all EHS requirements;

• Flexibility and willingness to come back to the plant on days off in cases of maintenance un-planned failures and planned events when needed;

• The ability to work in a team environment which includes being self-motivated, accepting accountability for plant performance, accepting responsibility for repairs and PM’s performed, participate in a proactive manner in meetings, Self-confidence in decisions made, and great team leadership skills;

• Must have the ability to effectively communicate (written and/or verbal) with employees and support;

• Able to establish a visual system to communicate the status of open or repaired items to the employees and staff of the department;

• Ability to establish systems that fairly assign tasks to the maintenance employees;

• Ability to use Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint);

• Help manage spare parts inventory (accuracy/cycle count);

• Awareness of the Maintenance budget and if we are over or under in general;

• Job Planning ability for yourself and others;

• Knowledge of preventative and predictive maintenance procedures;

• Must have the ability to effectively communicate (written and/or verbal) with employees and support;

• Able to establish a visual system to communicate the status of open or repaired items to the employees and staff of the department;

• Ability to establish systems that fairly assign tasks to the maintenance employees;

• Ability to use Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint);

• Help manage spare parts inventory (accuracy/cycle count);

• Awareness of the Maintenance budget and if we are over or under in general;

• Job Planning ability for yourself and others;

• Knowledge of preventative and predictive maintenance procedures and at least three years of experience in Industrial Maintenance;

• High School Diploma/GED;

• Employee is required to follow all safety and health requirements listed in the applicable procedures and work instructions;

• Must be able to work overtime as required;

• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility is required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.