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Lead Millwright (Sawmill Maintenance)
NWHUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Mar 2026
💰 $64,000/yr
About the role
Lead Millwright (Sawmill Maintenance)
Northwest Hardwoods Inc.
Location: Hamilton, MI
Pay Range: $32-35/hr DOE
Shift: 1st
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Must follow and promote safety policies and procedures and perform all work according to existing policies and procedures while maintaining a high standard of quality and workmanship in performing the duties.
- Maintain and follow preventive maintenance schedules for all assigned equipment
- Perform routine and complex repairs, replacements, and enhancements on manufacturing operational equipment, site facilities, and mobile equipment.
- Document procedures, downtime, root causes, and resolutions; complete all required maintenance reports and logs.
- Change oil and grease
- Ability to complete simple projects (changing bearings, sprockets, and chains)
- Basic Welding Skills
- Pipe Fitting Knowledge, able to thread and fit a pipe
- Have a strong desire, dedication, and determination to succeed, by continually improving skills through on-the-job training and various offered educational opportunities
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Previous experience as a Maintenance Mechanic, industrial mechanic, millwright, or similar role in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Basic understanding of electricity, hydraulics, pneumatics, and small hand tools.
- Ability to read electrical diagrams, equipment manuals, and technical documentation.
- Intermediate computer skills
Competencies:
- Must follow all established safety policies. Must have good safety record and a positive, can do attitude.
- Be adaptable, work where needed as required
- Willing to ask questions and work closely with Site Manager and Supervisors.
- Must be able to work any shift -- overtime, weekends, holidays as required and in all conditions.
- Capable of completing required documentation
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to diagnose issues and prevent unplanned downtime
- Able to work as a team, get along with team members; give and take advice and criticism from other team members
- Ability to take initiative on continuous improvement processes and find creative resolutions by identifying opportunities and boldly offering solutions
Physical Requirements
- While performing the duties of this job, the team member is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear.
- The team member must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
- While performing the duties of this Job, the team member is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
This job may require the following equipment when in the field eye protection, hearing protection, leather/rubber gloves, safety shoes, sleeve protection, safety vest, and a hard hat
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