Shift Lead Facility Maintenance Technician

At Five Below our growth is a result of the people who embrace our purpose: We know life is way better when you are free to Let Go & Have Fun in an amazing experience, filled with unlimited possibilities, priced so low, you can always say yes to the newest, coolest stuff! Just ask any of our over 20,000 associates who work at Five Below and they’ll tell you there’s no other place like it. It all starts with our purpose and then, The Five Below Way, which is our values and behaviors that each and every associate believes in.

It’s all about culture at Five Below, making this a place that can inspire you as much as you inspire us with big ideas, super energy, passion, and the ability to make the workplace a WOWplace!

POSITION: Lead Facility Maintenance Technician

DEPARTMENT: Maintenance 

A Day in the Life 

As a Lead Facility Maintenance Technician, you will be a key technical subject matter expert that ensures high equipment availability rates. You will use preventive and predictive maintenance processes, rapidly troubleshoot equipment breakdowns, and quickly restore equipment to service. You will prioritize work scheduling for the other maintenance technicians to assign preventative maintenance checks (PMs), corrective maintenance work orders (CMs), solve difficult problems, validate quality of work, work with building leaders to optimize material handling equipment, manage projects, and support in the parts ordering process. You will collaborate with and lead the team of techs to perform Root Cause Analysis for equipment failures and fix systemic issues using careful observation and diagnostic tools. You will have an expert understanding of system controls logic and troubleshooting techniques.  You will support the Maintenance Manager in validating parts requests to control costs and drive problem solving and innovation within the team.  Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. An individual in this role will: 

• Maintain and troubleshoot electrical/mechanical aspects of Material Handling Equipment (MHE), including conveyors, sortation, Fork Trucks, robotics 

• Control and adjust positioning accuracy and timing 

• Control and adjust scanners, cameras, scales, and printer applicators 

• Control, reset, repair, or replace adjustable components (belts, chains, cables) and wearing components (guides, bearings, wheels, rollers, pulleys) 

• Clean, lubricate, and calibrate equipment 

• Install, maintain, and troubleshoot relay logic, ladder diagrams, and control components- photo eyes, motor starters, relays, limit switches, proximity sensors, timers, solenoids, Servo drives, frequency inverters, linear drives, tachometers, and encoders 

• Troubleshoot PLC programs, components (CPU back plains, I/O boards, counters, modules, and devices), field buses (ASI, Profibus, etc.), and communications modules (Ethernet). 

• Configure and adjust PLC parameters and component setup 

• Troubleshoot power distribution systems, branch circuits, lighting systems, transformers, and wiring methods and materials, up to 480V 

• Work with Maintenance Manager to develop work plans for the maintenance technician team for all PMs, CMs, and projects 

• Utilize EMaint (CMMS) to create and close Work Orders with appropriate data (labor hours, downtime, problem/cause/remedy, and parts used) 

• Assign PMs and CMs to maintena