Maintenance Technician (Team Leader)

Job Description

Job Description

Logoplaste is currently seeking to recruit a night shift Maintenance Technician (Team Leader), to join the plant team in Stanwood, MI(USA).

Shift: 12 hour rotating schedule (2-2-3).

Pay: $25 + based off experience.

The Maintenance Technician position is a hands-on leadership role responsible for supporting daily production operations and ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality performance across assigned departments. This position requires strong leadership capability, sound technical understanding, mechanical aptitude, and the ability to coach employees while actively supporting production needs. The Team Lead is expected to identify and respond to operational issues, support troubleshooting activities, promote continuous improvement, and ensure compliance with all safety, quality, legality, GMP, and food safety requirements.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on manufacturing equipment
• Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems
• Support equipment changeovers, installations, and continuous improvement efforts
• Maintain work orders, parts inventory records, and maintenance documentation
• Work closely with production teams to minimize downtime and improve performance
• Provide visible, hands-on leadership on the production floor while supporting the direction set by the Plant Manager and Production Manager.
• Lead, coach, and coordinate shift employees to achieve safety, quality, production, housekeeping, and efficiency targets.
• Promote a positive, accountable, and performance-focused team culture through clear communication, effective follow-up, and consistent application of company standards.
• Provide a safe working environment for production employees, visitors, contractors, and temporary labor.
• Ensure employees receive required safety training and consistently follow PPE, safety, GMP, housekeeping, and Global Food Safety requirements.
• Continuously monitor the production floor, equipment, and work practices for unsafe or hazardous conditions; take immediate corrective action and escalate concerns as required.

COMPETENCIES

• Strong floor leadership with the ability to assign work clearly, coach employees, verify completion of expectations, follow up on gaps, and hold team members accountable.
• Technical curiosity and mechanical problem-solving mindset, including the ability to recognize abnormal equipment conditions, gather facts, and support practical corrective actions.
• Ability to respond quickly and effectively to production, quality, safety, and equipment-related issues.
• Clear, respectful, and professional verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and make sound decisions in a fast-paced, changing environment.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to sit, climb, stand, crawl, bend and walk on a varying basis throughout assigned work schedule.
• Ability to carry and/or lift up to 50 pounds.