Primary Responsibilities: This position leads daily maintenance execution, develops employees, improves equipment reliability, and ensures maintenance work is completed safely, efficiently, and to a high standard. The Team Leader works closely with Operations, Planning, Reliability, and Engineering to maximize equipment availability while maintaining a strong focus on safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
This is a leadership position for someone who enjoys developing people, driving accountability, and improving maintenance performance.
Lead Maintenance Operations
- Lead and coordinate daily activities of an industrial mechanical maintenance team.
- Establish clear expectations for safety, quality, productivity, and workmanship.
- Hold employees accountable to established standards while providing coaching and development.
- Ensure maintenance work is completed safely, efficiently, and with a focus on long-term equipment reliability.
- Provide technical guidance and support for complex mechanical repairs and troubleshooting.
Execute Maintenance Work
- Coordinate preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance activities.
- Partner with Maintenance Planning to execute scheduled work with minimal disruption to production.
- Verify completed work meets quality expectations before equipment is returned to service.
- Support planned outages, major shutdowns, and capital improvement projects.
- Assist in prioritizing maintenance activities based on safety, equipment criticality, and production impact.
Improve Equipment Reliability
- Identify recurring equipment failures and lead efforts to eliminate repeat problems.
- Support root cause investigations and implementation of permanent corrective actions.
- Drive continuous improvement in maintenance practices and work execution.
- Promote precision maintenance techniques and quality workmanship.
Develop People
- Coach and develop maintenance craftsmen through daily feedback and hands-on leadership.
- Identify training opportunities and support employee skill development.
- Foster teamwork, accountability, and professional growth within the department.
- Reinforce company policies, procedures, and safety expectations through consistent leadership.
Partner Across the Operation
- Build productive working relationships with Operations, Planning, Reliability, Engineering, and other support teams.
- Communicate equipment status, priorities, and maintenance needs clearly and professionally.
- Support plant goals related to safety, reliability, production, and cost control.
Job Experience: A willingness to learn and grow is critical for this position.
Required Qualifications:
- High school diploma or GED.
- Minimum five (5) years of industrial mechanical maintenance experience.
- Previous leadership or supervisory experience in an industrial manufacturing environment.
- Strong working knowledge of:
- Bearings
- Gearboxes
- Conveyors
- Hydraulics
- Pneumatics
- Mechanical power transmission
- Pumps
- Rotating equipment
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to prioritize work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in OSB, lumber, wood products, pulp and paper, steel, mining, cement, chemical processing, or other heavy industrial manufacturing.
- Experience with CMMS software such as Maximo.
- Experience supporting preventive maintenance and reliability-centered maintenance programs.
- Experience leading outage planning and execution.
- Technical certifications, apprenticeship, or military mechanical maintenance experience.
Behavioral Skills: Behavioral skills are critical for determining success in a career.
- Lead crews in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Hold employees accountable while earning their respect.
- Balance planned maintenance with emergency work.
- Make sound decisions under pressure.
- Develop employees through coaching and performance feedback.
- Communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.
- Build strong working relationships with Operations, Planning, Reliability, and Engineering.
- Promote a culture of safety, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Maintain a level of professionalism
- Uphold the company values, R.I.C.H.E.S
- Able to manage multiple projects and activities.
- Willingness to learn and grow.
- Evidence of self-structure
Benefits
Some of the benefits our team members enjoy include:
- Healthcare- Legacy Health & Wellness and Legacy Pharmacy
- Wellness Program
- Flexible Spending Account
- Additional Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Retirement
- Chaplaincy Services
- Education
About RoyOMartin
At RoyOMartin, people are our number-one asset. We are committed to keeping them safe and supporting them as they learn and grow. There’s just something unique about being in the people business: Our leaders are involved in daily operations and nurture personal relationships; our employees stick with us for the long term and appreciate our top-notch benefits, and we believe that everyone has the capacity to succeed.
With superior product quality and outstanding customer service at the heart of our more than 1,200-person operation, RoyOMartin is proud to serve America’s building industry. Through our Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) certification, customers can be assured that we responsibly source our raw materials from regional forests to produce “Made in the U.S.A.” oriented strand board (OSB), plywood, timbers, and boards in safety-award-winning manufacturing environments.
RoyOMartin is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
