Lead Maintenance Technician

This role reports to the D2 Maintenance Supervisor and works within a highly motivated industrial maintenance team responsible for maintaining and repairing plastics manufacturing equipment used in extrusion, thermoforming and injection moulding processes. The role also acts as a mentor for other technicians and as a resource for setting daily activities within the team. The maintenance team supports a 24/7 production facility in teams aligned to four shifts, with the role working alongside one team to support a production shift.

• Maintain and repair plastics manufacturing equipment used in extrusion, thermoforming and injection moulding processes.
• Mentor other technicians and act as a resource for setting daily activities within the maintenance team.
• Perform preventative maintenance on production equipment and use regular inspections to determine repair and maintenance work needed to prevent failure and improve reliability.
• Respond quickly to equipment issues and return assets to production to maximise uptime.
• Deploy projects to decrease downtime.
• Make repairs or modifications to production equipment using controls, drawings, electrical, general mechanics, hand tools, hydraulics, machine shop, piping systems, PLC knowledge, pneumatics, RF, troubleshooting, welding and programming skills.
• Contact vendors, research problems, identify potential components and order maintenance machine parts as needed.
• Track and turn in repairable flagged parts.
• Elevate part issues to supervisor or management quickly, with potential solutions if known.
• Collaborate and communicate with the maintenance team to deliver solutions and maximise uptime.

• High School diploma or GED.
• Post high school Technical/Vocational school degree or education or related Military training in industrial maintenance technology and industrial electrical systems.
• Demonstrated strong problem-solving ability necessary to identify defects and repair industrial equipment.
• Familiarity and training with electrical, mechanical and fluid system safety, diagnostics and repair.
• Experience and/or certification working with common Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and variable frequency drives.
• Familiarity with reliability-based maintenance programmes and principles.
• 5 years industrial/manufacturing maintenance experience.
• Strong industrial mechanical experience and skillset resolving issues with shafts, pulleys, belts, pumps, couplers, actuators and hydraulic presses.
• Electrical safety, troubleshooting and repair experience, including PLC control systems, AC electrical systems and components up to 3-phase 480-volt, DC electrical systems and components, and replacement of components including drives, ball screws, motors, pumps, heaters, switches and HMI panels.
• Experience working with basic hand tools, machine shop equipment, precision measuring instruments, digital multi-meters, cutting and welding equipment.
• Ability to read and understand documentation and drawings for mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical systems.
• Personal computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office and background using computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS).
• Ability to work 12-hour shifts, including possible evenings, weekends and holidays.
• Able to lift objects up to 50lbs.

• Experience coaching others on technical topics and mentorship of peers.
• Experience working with plastic processing equipment and processes including extrusion, thermoforming, injection moulding, and support equipment such as driers, loaders and transfer systems.
• Experience and/or certification working with industrial automation and robotics (Denso and ABB preferred).
• Ability to be certified to operate forklifts, man lifts and scissor lifts.
• Experience with Siemens and Allen Bradley PLC control systems.
• SAP experience.
• Plastics manufacturing experience.

• D2 shift: Friday, Saturday, Sunday and every other Monday, 5:30 am – 5:30 pm.