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.