Lead Maintenance Technician Job Description

Lead Maintenance Technician Job Description

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Lead maintenance technician provides leadership and guidance, and perform tasks in the areas of plumbing, electrical, HVAC, carpentry, mechanical maintenance, and drywall repair and painting.

Lead Maintenance Technician Duties & Responsibilities

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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Perform maintenance tasks such as carpentry, painting, plumbing and electrical repairs to ensure that the building is properly maintained
Responsible for leading electrical maintenance and reliability activities on manufacturing process equipment (extruders, mixers, conveyors, blowers, pelletizers, tanks, pumps, motors ), HVAC equipment (cooling towers, chillers ), utility equipment (compressors, boilers, facilities (buildings, grounds ) and plant mobile equipment
Performs routine to difficult plumbing duties, inspecting, installing, repairing and replacing pipes, fittings and plumbing fixtures, unclogging sinks and toilets, repair of faucet, assemblies and replacement of washers, repairs or replacement pipes, repair of fountains
Excellent all around carpentry and plumbing skills
Is an essential role in maintaining buildings and facility operations
By serving as a primary conduit for information on technical and maintenance issues within and between the operations group
Troubleshoots electrical devices in operation
Maintain records, reports, recommendations, evaluations, , reflecting the conditions under which general building maintenance operations are performed
Leads a team of maintenance technicians on daily maintenance operations with a focus on achieving efficiently run maintenance projects and operational functions
Practice continuous improvement behaviors to develop and fine-tune the day-to-day procedures to assist in efficient operations of the department

Lead Maintenance Technician Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Licensing or Certifications for Lead Maintenance Technician

List any licenses or certifications required by the position: HVAC, EPA, ASE, CFC, II, MOT, CDL, I&C, CPO, BOC

Education for Lead Maintenance Technician

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the lead maintenance technician job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Associate and High School Degree in Technical, Education, Associates, Industrial, General Education, Fashion, Electronics, Supervision, Technology, Computer

Skills for Lead Maintenance Technician

Desired skills for lead maintenance technician include:

Maintenance safety procedures
Plumbing
Electrical
Basic hand and power tools
Maintenance principles
Operations
Theories
HVAC
Alldata system helpful
Carpentry

Desired experience for lead maintenance technician includes:

Read blueprints, P&ID's, single-lines, ladder logic, and wiring schematics
Repair and troubleshoot analog and discrete instrument loops
Effectively use typical test and calibration equipment, including pneumatic calibrators, RTD calibrators, current loop calibrators, T/C calibrators, digital and analog multi-meters, meggers, and laptops for equipment communication
Follow step-by-step calibration procedures
Troubleshoot and repair 480 VAC 3 phase motor controls 120 VAC control circuits
Perform work and issue permits using safe lock out tag outs

Lead Maintenance Technician Examples

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Lead Maintenance Technician Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a lead maintenance technician. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for lead maintenance technician
  • Work to coordinate, track and manage electrical and mechanical maintenance activities performed by third party providers
  • Interface with Operations Manager for the creation and to implement the yearly and 5 year maintenance plan
  • Interface with Operations Support for any issue relevant to plant performance analysis to include the implementation of any action plans
  • By assisting in the development and infrastructure of the maintenance team such a providing training and coaching
  • To decrease equipment downtime through high level troubleshooting
  • To advance Planned Maintenance through leadership of FP&R initiatives
  • Requires a high level of understanding in industrial control systems including PLCs, power distribution, pneumatics, drives
  • Coordinates, motivates and schedules work for department
  • Provides redundancy coverage for the Department
  • Assists Supervisor with investigations and resolution of equipment-related variances
Qualifications for lead maintenance technician
  • Prioritize and distribute plant preventative and corrective maintenance orders to a three person team and follow through to make sure they are properly done in a timely manner
  • Create and maintain equipment traceability
  • Bachelors or Associates in Instrumentation Technology, or, a minimum of 5 years’ maintenance experience in lieu of Bachelors / Associates
  • Complete knowledge and understanding of the fire protection system including pumphouses, risers and monitoring system
  • Experience using multi-meters, insulation testers, laser alignment equipment
  • A minimum of 5 years of nuclear maintenance experience is strongly desired
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Lead Maintenance Technician Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lead maintenance technician. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for lead maintenance technician
  • Report to Account Manager on a regular basis (daily/weekly) on conditions relative to general operations, safety and day to day activities in the facility
  • Process weekly payroll, manage material spend, manage subcontractors, issue PO’s for large dollar purchases, pay small dollar invoices with corporate Pcard, share P&L responsibility for the account with the regional director of operations
  • Ensures all repair and maintenance documentation conforms to Joint Commission standards
  • Provides feedback to Supervisor
  • Contributes to upkeep and updating of CMMS (E-Maint), required paperwork such as records, maintenance logs, documents, manuals, drawings, PM logs
  • Hold daily safety talks before every shift
  • Promotes good safety practices to his team
  • Perform routine preventive maintenance to ensure that building systems operate efficiently and that the physical condition of buildings do not deteriorate
  • Perform all building hard surface maintenance and repair including walls, partitions, floors, ceilings, architectural concrete, window wall assemblies, pavers, asphalt, metal and wood features, etc and for miscellaneous equipment such as carts, tele lift, fitness, dock equipment
  • Efficiently completes all daily work orders in a specific amount of time
Qualifications for lead maintenance technician
  • Possession of an Instrumentation and Controls (I&C) certification from accredited technical program or college course PLC training, experience and or certification is preferred
  • Computers – Knowledge of software including relevant applications such as Microsoft office
  • Trouble-Shooting and Repairing - Determine root causes of operating errors and repair facilities equipment or systems using necessary tools
  • High School Diploma or G
  • Healthcare Maintenance experience- 5 years preferred
  • HealthCare Mechanic I or above experience
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Lead Maintenance Technician Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a lead maintenance technician. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for lead maintenance technician
  • Performs routine to difficult painting duties, including drywall or plaster repair, painting
  • Rapid response, of all emergency situations
  • Assist maintenance staff and other departments as needed, guide and train maintenance staff on proper repairs and servicing of equipment
  • Ensure that work orders are complete and that the work that other maintenance employees have done has been done correctly
  • Communicate with the management and other department heads regarding issues and concerns that needs to be addressed
  • Be responsible for excellent communications with
  • Assists with assuring that all maintenance department incidents are promptly reported and thoroughly investigated
  • Utilizes the CMMS system and ECOWISE system to efficiently manage the operation of the center
  • Perform the tasks required to maintain the daily operation of multiple sites (Pomona, San Dimas, and Glendora)
  • Support the Facilities Manager in the execution of projects from conception to completion, managing the trades involved in each step of completion
Qualifications for lead maintenance technician
  • On-call rotation is required
  • Knowledge of CMMS, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Word and Excel
  • Requires standing, sitting, walking, crouching, kneeling, stooping, and climbing of steps and ladders
  • Must be able use hands to handle and feel objects, or manipulate controls
  • Requires the use of safety equipment as dictated by the work area
  • 5 - 7 years related experience with industry-specific equipment
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Lead Maintenance Technician Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a lead maintenance technician. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for lead maintenance technician
  • Act as liaison for coordination of physical moves (smaller projects)
  • Serves as a team lead, may allocate work and provide subject matter guidance to more junior team members
  • Perform all tasks on a timely basis
  • Perform weekly interior and exterior inspections of each facility (interior to include primary conference rooms, customer-facing areas and common areas, and inspect facilities for carpet stains, marks on walls that need touch-up, damaged or stained ceiling tiles, bent or broken window blinds
  • Work in conjunction with the Facilities Clerk to complete daily facilities requests, as received
  • Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish assigned goals with minimal supervision
  • Maintain company vehicles
  • Create purchase requisitions using corporate procurement program
  • Perform Routine, scheduled, unscheduled, and Corrective Maintenance for assigned region
  • Lead troubleshooting and evaluation of equipment for assigned region
Qualifications for lead maintenance technician
  • Red Seal trade certification preferred
  • Ability to work varied shift scheduled
  • Ability to work in an underground environment
  • Previous maintenance experience in a campground or RV resort, preferred
  • Availability to respond to resort needs during non-business hours
  • Ability to talk or hear (for safety purposes)
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Lead Maintenance Technician Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of lead maintenance technician. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for lead maintenance technician
  • Perform onsite work in the implementation of Capital Expenditures
  • Evaluate equipment failures with SR Technicians and Maintenance Manager for methods or procedures to prevent reoccurrence
  • Support in the budgeting process for the Health Status Forms for the region assigned
  • Ensure all facilities are maintained within all regulatory guidelines
  • Work with SAP PM in the development of Notifications, creation of Work Orders and including entering pertinent information into the notification and time into the Work Order
  • Work by Maintenance Plans for all planned maintenance activities
  • Listening skills are a must
  • Follow instructions printed in Factory shop repair manual
  • Maintain dumpster areas
  • Participate in weekend work planning
Qualifications for lead maintenance technician
  • This position requires frequent standing, walking and reaching with hands and arms, climb, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling
  • 5+ years experience of building maintenance support
  • Pass a ten (10) year background check, pre-employment drug test
  • Respond immediately to emergency situations (fire, evacuation, equipment failure, natural or weather related, ) and customer concerns
  • Must be able to work a flexible schedule and shifts -- Sunday-Saturday, weekends & holidays as needed by the department
  • Must be able to utilize technology, including computers, email, mobile phones

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