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Lead Millwright (Sawmill Maintenance)

NWH
United 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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