Lead Maintenance Technician

POSITION DESCRIPTION

• Collaborate with operation supervisors and planners to understand daily maintenance priorities and issues
• Drive the communication between operation supervision and maintenance of front-line supervision to help prioritize work
• Drive the best solutions for the business from a maintenance, safety, reliability and production impact perspective daily
• Prioritize, develop, schedule, and communicate all daily, weekly, and long-term maintenance activities. Interface with these groups to ensure maintenance execution and readiness from a maintenance planning/resourcing and operations equipment readiness perspective
• Perform plant inspections of job sites and work in progress
• Recognize problems and is proactive at solving them
• Provide coaching, develop and provide feedback to frontline leaders to improve leadership skills, technical competency, communication, and resource management
• Support the development, progression, coaching, and provide feedback for improvement for maintenance technicians
• Comply with maintenance performance metrics such as PM compliance, compliance management, maintenance backlog, monthly spending vs budget and safety program participation. Ensure 100% compliance with regulatory and very high priority maintenance activities. Stay abreast of policies and procedures and ensure compliance
• Interface with technical engineering support teams to drive towards innovative solutions to maintenance issues as well as capital project recommendations for end-of-life assets
• Support required leadership audits and safety reviews
• Responsible for warehousing activities ensuring materials management and inventory stored on and off site
• Hands-on maintenance of the physical constructions of the facility (beams, walls, siding, overhead doors, plumbing)
• Coordinate and oversee equipment repairs made in house as well as by outside professionals
• Order industrial equipment and any parts needed for maintenance or repairs

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

• High School Diploma, or equivalent (preferred)
• Ability to keep and maintain all licenses/certifications current (i.e. 40-hour HAZWOPER, Driver's License, Forklift)
• 5 years of supervisory experience is a plus. Demonstrated leadership and decision-making skills are critical to the position
• 5 years of experience in maintenance, mechanical, construction, minor electrical, and fabrication
• Strong leadership abilities coupled with excellent broad based technical skills, interpersonal skills, communication skills and business acumen
• Excellent organizational, planning and time management skills
• Project management skills as well as experience creating and implementing structured work processes are a plus
• Prior budgetary management and development a plus