Manufacturing Equipment Maintenance Technician Lead

Primary Function

The Manufacturing Equipment Maintenance Technician Lead is responsible for overseeing the maintenance and repair of manufacturing equipment to ensure optimal performance and minimal downtime. This role involves leading a team of technicians, coordinating maintenance schedules, troubleshooting complex equipment issues, and implementing preventative maintenance programs. The lead technician acts as a liaison between maintenance staff, production teams, and management, ensuring smooth operations and compliance with safety and quality standards.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Supervise Maintenance Team: Lead, direct, and manage a team of maintenance technicians, ensuring efficient and effective performance of maintenance activities. Provide guidance, training, and support to ensure high standards of work and safety are maintained.

- Preventive Maintenance Management: Oversee the development and execution of preventive maintenance schedules for equipment, machinery, and building systems to minimize downtime and ensure optimal functioning.

- Troubleshooting and Repairs: Lead troubleshooting of routine and predictive maintenance as outlined in manufacturer recommendations for various tools and equipment. This equipment includes, but is not limited to, CNC equipment, cranes and hoists, small gas engines, electrical circuitry, various forms of hydraulics, and mechanical functions to ensuring prompt resolution of issues to minimize production or operational downtime.

- Must possess low and high voltage electrical safety knowledge and safe work practices including LOTO, DMM usage to troubleshoot low and high voltage circuits safely.

- Equipment Inspections: Conduct regular inspections of equipment and systems to identify potential issues and ensure compliance with regulatory standards and safety protocols. Remove from service non-functioning equipment. Troubleshoot, repair, adjust tools/equipment and return to service.

- Work Orders and Documentation: Manage and prioritize work orders, ensuring timely completion of tasks. Maintain accurate records of maintenance activities, parts inventory, and service history for accountability and future reference.

- Inventory Management: Oversee the inventory of maintenance supplies and tools, ensuring that necessary parts and equipment are available to complete repairs and preventive maintenance tasks.

- Safety Compliance: Ensure that maintenance work is performed in compliance with safety regulations and company policies. Promote a culture of safety within the maintenance team and throughout the organization.

- Budget and Cost Management: Monitor and control maintenance budgets, identifying opportunities to reduce costs without compromising quality. Assist in forecasting future maintenance needs and equipment replacements.

- Training and Development: Provide training for new and existing team members on best practices, safety protocols, equipment handling, and troubleshooting techniques. Foster an environment of continuous improvement and skill development.

- Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with other departments (e.g., production, facilities, engineering) to understand maintenance needs, address concerns, and contribute to improving operational efficiency.

- Emergency Response: Be available for emergency maintenance and repair situations outside of normal working hours to ensure the continuity of operations.

- Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify areas for improvement in maintenance processes, equipment, and systems. Lead efforts to implement best practices, new technologies, and innovative solutions to enhance reliability and efficiency.

- Must be adaptable, and able to switch between tasks as production demands shift to different equipment.

Promote and actively embrace the concept of professionalism, with an emphasis on quality, commitment, integrity, ingenuity, teamwork, the community, and the environment. Safety is a deeply rooted cultural value and it must be promoted and enforced at all times.

Minimum Qualifications/Experience

Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year College or technical school; or one to three years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

- Five to eight years of leadman or supervisory experience in related field.

- Excellent organizational and leadership skills.

- Ability to communicate and report effectively.

- Should be comfortable working with a computer. Experience with Microsoft Office, including Excel, preferred.

Additional skills:

A strong working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic equipment is required. Strong problem-solving skills, substantial interpersonal skills, excellent verbal, and written skills as well as intermediate computer skills are a must. The ability to interpret electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic schematics and drawings and a working knowledge of CNC controllers, control circuits and process instrumentation is required.

Other Qualifications:

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of the conditions that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Regular, predictable, and on-site attendance is an essential function of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job. Premier Technology is a federal contractor, as such, this position will work on government contracts and requires that you are a US Citizen (not just authorized to work in the US).

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to talk, hear, and walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and climb or balance. The job may require climbing of ladders and/or stairs. The employee will often lift heavy pieces of metal, work with arms overhead, torso twist, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, often for extended periods; the employee must frequently lift and /or move up to 25 pounds, regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move weight above 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include strong visual acuity (with or without correction), color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. Long hours (10 or more) are often scheduled, and job may require overtime and travel.

Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, loud noises, tripping hazards, exposure to sparks, welding arc, and open flame. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, mild industrial chemicals, inclement weather, risk of electrical shock and vibration. It is essential for employees to maintain awareness of their surroundings and when required, wear the necessary PPE. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Benefit Options:

Medical, Dental, Vision - 100% Employee Paid Coverage

Company Paid Life Insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Employee Assistance Program

Supplement Benefits - Accident, Disability, Critical Care, Hospital, Term Life, Whole Life

Legal Shield/Identity Theft Protection/Gun Owners Insurance

Pet Insurance

401k Retirement Plan with Company Match

Other benefits:

4-Day Work Week

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Paid Holidays

Craft Development and Training Opportunities

Tuition Assistance

Employee and Dependent Scholarships

Premier Technology, Inc. is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $30.00 - $40.00 per hour

Benefits:

- 401(k)

- 401(k) matching

- Dental insurance

- Employee assistance program

- Flexible spending account

- Health insurance

- Life insurance

- Paid time off

- Referral program

- Tuition reimbursement

- Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

- Premier Technology is a federal contractor working on government contracts that require US Citizenship, not just authorization to work in the United States. Do you meet this criteria?

Ability to Commute:

- Blackfoot, ID 83221 (Preferred)

Work Location: In person