Lead Facility & Maintenance Mechanic

Bobrick is hiring a Lead Facilities & Maintenance Mechanic based out of our North Hollywood headquarters. As a Lead Facilities & Maintenance Mechanic, you are a highly experienced technical lead responsible for the reliability, troubleshooting, and improvement of manufacturing equipment, facility infrastructure, building systems, and critical utilities. This position combines advanced hands-on maintenance capability with facilities engineering knowledge of electrical distribution, HVAC and mechanical systems, controls, automation, compressed air, fire-life-safety systems, and other critical facility assets.

As the Lead Facilities & Maintenance Mechanic, you'll serve as a senior technical resource and provide day-to-day technical leadership to maintenance personnel. You'll help prioritize maintenance activities, resolve complex technical issues, improve preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, coordinate vendors and engineering resources, and support facility upgrades, equipment installations, infrastructure improvements, and capital projects.

Provide hands-on technical leadership to maintenance technicians by assigning and prioritizing daily work, reviewing open work orders, and following up on completion.

• Serve as the first point of technical support for maintenance personnel and help coordinate the response to urgent production and facility issues.
• Support the Supervisor in balancing preventive maintenance, production repairs, facility needs, safety-related work, vendor support, and other department priorities.
• Lead and support preventive and predictive maintenance activities and ensure work is completed safely, on time, and properly documented.
• Review and improve preventive maintenance procedures, frequencies, spare-parts requirements, and maintenance strategies based on equipment history and reliability needs.
• Conduct root cause analysis of recurring equipment and facility failures and recommend long-term corrective actions.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting and repairs and support reliability improvements for manufacturing equipment, critical utilities, and facility infrastructure involving mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, plumbing, HVAC, controls, and automation systems using schematics, technical documentation, diagnostic tools, and equipment history.
• Maintain and evaluate facility systems including HVAC and mechanical systems, electrical infrastructure, lighting and building controls, plumbing, access control, generator, dust collector, doors, gates, compressed air, and fire-life-safety infrastructure.
• Support troubleshooting, maintenance, and improvement of commercial and industrial electrical distribution systems, including switch gear, transformers, panel boards, motor controls, VFDs, disconnects, protective devices, and related infrastructure within authorized work practices.
• Evaluate HVAC and mechanical building systems, including air handling and exhaust equipment, pumps, motors, controls, and associated infrastructure, and coordinate specialized service when required.
• Troubleshoot manufacturing and building control systems including PLC-controlled equipment, HMIs, VFDs, servo systems, sensors, safety circuits, and building management or control interfaces.
• Interpret electrical schematics, one-line diagrams, control drawings, panel layouts, PLC I/O documentation, construction drawings, technical specifications, and vendor documentation to support troubleshooting, repairs, and facility projects.
• Identify infrastructure deficiencies, reliability risks, capacity concerns, recurring failures, and opportunities for equipment or facility improvement and recommend appropriate corrective actions.
• Support reliability and lifecycle planning for critical manufacturing and…