Senior Operator I, Maintenance Lead

Shift: 6a-2:30p M-F with weekday and weekend overtime as needed

GENERAL SUMMARY:

The Maintenance Team Leader is a non-hierarchical team leader responsible for supporting the reliability, availability, and maintainability of production and manufacturing equipment through predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance activities.

The role provides functional day-to-day leadership to the maintenance team and coordinates standardized maintenance processes and plans to support Safety, Quality, Service/Availability, and Cost performance.

The Maintenance Team Leader works closely with Manufacturing and Engineering to prioritize maintenance activities, reduce equipment downtime and recurring failures, sustain equipment in its intended condition, develop maintenance technical competency, and drive continuous improvement through SPS/SIM and TPM practices.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITES:


* Enforce Safety & Health requirements and 5S standards during all maintenance activities.


* Coordinate and perform predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance, including complex Level 3, 4, and 5 interventions, consistent with required technical competency.


* Provide functional day-to-day leadership to maintenance technicians, establishing priorities and coordinating maintenance activities based on production requirements and equipment criticality.


* Partner with Manufacturing to prioritize and execute maintenance action plans to restore and maintain equipment in its intended/original operating condition.


* Support equipment reliability and availability performance by monitoring downtime, recurring failures, MTBF, MTTR, preventive-maintenance execution, and related maintenance indicators.


* Drive structured problem solving and permanent corrective actions for repetitive or high-impact equipment failures.


* Deploy and sustain TPM practices to improve equipment reliability, availability, and maintenance effectiveness.


* Ensure effective use of the CMMS, including work-order execution, equipment history, preventive-maintenance plans, failure information, and maintenance follow-up.


* Manage and optimize maintenance spare-parts inventory, supporting appropriate availability of critical spare parts while controlling maintenance costs.


* Support the technical capability and preservation of production equipment and tools within the assigned area.


* Coordinate Maintenance involvement in the installation, commissioning, and ramp-up of new equipment, workstations, and production lines, providing maintenance feedback and lessons learned.


* Develop maintenance-team technical competency through coaching, on-the-job training, cross-training, and identification of competency gaps.


* Participate in SPS/SIM routines, providing visibility to equipment risks, maintenance priorities, performance gaps, and recovery actions.


* Drive continuous improvement focused on equipment reliability, maintainability,...