Maintenance Team Lead

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At the West Hershey Plant, the Maintenance Team Lead coordinates the daily work of skilled technical specialists who maintain, repair, calibrate, and support manufacturing equipment. This hands-on leader helps keep operations safe and reliable by aligning maintenance priorities with production needs, guiding routine troubleshooting, and communicating risks and resource needs across maintenance, operations, and engineering. n and uninterrupted workflow.

• Assign daily work, set priorities, and ensure technicians have the tools, materials, instructions, and time needed to complete quality work safely and efficiently.
• Coordinate and participate in routine maintenance, equipment repair, checks, and calibration while reinforcing established safety, food quality, GMP, and technical procedures.
• Prepare and adjust daily schedules based on production needs, technical priorities, staffing, and changing shift conditions.
• Guide troubleshooting of routine and moderately complex equipment or process issues, use available data and known methods to recommend corrective action, and upscale broader or unresolved issues through established channels.
• Monitor work execution and CMMS information for accuracy and completeness; support preventive maintenance, equipment documentation, backlog management, and asset reliability practices.
• Provide clear updates on work completion, emerging risks, and resource needs to maintenance, operations, and engineering partners; support technician coaching and skills development.