Assembly Lead 2nd Shift

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Manages maintenance work requests from production floor, determines priority and assigns a technician
• Ensures team members comply with all safety and good manufacturing practices
• Communicates to production and quality assurance equipment break downs and estimated time needed to complete repairs
• Confers with vendors, management, engineering and quality control personnel to resolve maintenance problems and recommend measures to improve operations and conditions of machines and equipment
• Audits work of team members to ensure job standards are met.
• Conveys all worker grievances to maintenance supervisor or manager.
• Conducts meetings at the beginning of each shift to update incoming maintenance personnel on status of break downs, repairs, and troubleshooting done during the night shift.
• Steps in and helps when needed to troubleshoot and fix equipment breakdowns quickly.
• Manages equipment PM tasks and assigns work and priority for PMs.
• Supports nights and weekend shifts when issues arise and comes in for support when necessary
• Tracks down sources for spare parts and places orders for replacements
• Holds technicians accountable for complying with company policies
• Identifies training opportunities for the maintenance department
• Coordinates damaged parts to be sent out for repair and manages the turn-around time
• Works with department managers and machine operators to service their maintenance needs from the department in a timely fashion
• Coordinates with Maintenance Manager on maintenance overtime project work to be done
• Ensures that equipment support is called for any breakdowns lasting more than 4 hours
• Helps manage storeroom inventory by ensuring the maintenance department checks out any parts used from the storeroom.

  

Requirements:

• A minimum of five (5) years industrial maintenance experience.
• Familiar with electrical and mechanical systems including PLC, Drives, PC, Industrial control systems, and mechanical components
• Ability to read blueprints, schematics and ladder logic
• Required to respond to off-hours problems and over-the-phone troubleshooting
• Ability to organize, plan and lead projects involving in-plant technicians and contract labor
• Experience organizing, planning and executing preventive maintenance events involving multiple employees from different departments
• Experience with development of effective preventative maintenance tasks and executing preventative maintenance events
• Strong leadership skills are required including assigning and following up on daily and long-term tasks, handling associate discipline issues, and associate performance management
• Supervision experience with technicians covering multiple disciplines
• Experience working with vendors to procure parts required to complete project work
• Experience maintaining building systems including compressors, pumps, HVAC, closed loop chiller systems, plant communications and fire control systems

• Ability to work overtime as needed
• Ability to read safety, quality, and manufacturing instructions
• Possess the ability to work rapidly and under time pressure.
• Math skills to include simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
• Ability to effectively coordinate and monitor a team
• Ability to work independently in a fast pace, constant changing environment
• Strong sense of urgency
• Accountability
• Self-motivation and the desire to focus to improve the business.

Work Environment

 

Manufacturing environment exposed to

dust, odors, and noise.

 

 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

 

About the Company

Lasko Metal Products was founded in 1906 by Henry Lasko in Philadelphia. Lasko designs, manufactures, assembles, and distributes portable fans, heaters, and humidifiers for the consumer market (Lasko brand), air purifiers (Germ Guardian brand), ventilation products such as range ho