Maintenance Lead

Maintenance Lead Responsibilities Lead and coordinate maintenance activities during the assigned shift to ensure safe, efficient, and effective execution of planned and unplanned work. Assign, prioritize, and adjust maintenance resources based on production priorities, equipment conditions, and business needs. Ensure accurate completion of work orders, maintenance documentation, and equipment history records. Analyze stop data, breakdown trends, and maintenance performance metrics to identify and prioritize equipment reliability and loss elimination opportunities. Provide day‑to‑day leadership, coaching, and technical guidance to maintenance technicians while supporting the development of operator equipment ownership and autonomous maintenance capability. Serve as the technical expert on shift, providing advanced troubleshooting support across mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and controls systems. Drive preventive maintenance execution, compliance, planning, and equipment reliability initiatives. Drive results in planned and unplanned downtime reduction through effective maintenance planning, PM execution, breakdown elimination, and equipment reliability improvements. Lead breakdown elimination activities, root cause investigations (RCCA), and implementation of corrective and preventive actions. Support execution of preventive and corrective maintenance activities to maintain equipment reliability and operating condition. Own TPM planned maintenance activities, maintenance planning and scheduling, breakdown elimination DMS, and anomaly handling DMS processes for assigned production areas while driving continuous improvement initiatives focused on loss elimination, equipment reliability, and maintenance capability development. Monitor and support management of maintenance and repair costs within assigned production areas through effective planning, resource utilization, and loss elimination activities. Coach operators and maintenance technicians on equipment ownership, anomaly identification, abnormality elimination, and basic equipment care principles to support autonomous maintenance and planned maintenance systems. Support onboarding and continued development of technicians. Partner with Operations, Quality and Food Safety, Sanitation, and Engineering to improve uptime, reduce losses, and drive continuous improvement across the facility. #J-18808-Ljbffr