Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Maintenance Shift Leader for a direct hire opportunity in Buffalo, NY. This onsite role is ideal for a hands-on industrial maintenance professional who enjoys leading technicians, solving complex equipment issues, and improving reliability in a high-volume manufacturing environment.

The Maintenance Shift Leader will play a key role in keeping production equipment running safely and efficiently while supporting preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, team development, and continuous improvement initiatives. This opportunity offers strong visibility within operations, exposure to advanced automated manufacturing and packaging equipment, and the chance to make a direct impact on uptime, quality, and plant performance.

Candidates who value supportive leadership, teamwork, technical problem solving, and a culture focused on safety and continuous improvement will find this role highly rewarding.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead, coach, and mentor maintenance and tooling technicians while promoting safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Troubleshoot complex electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, PLC, automation, packaging, and production equipment issues.
- Coordinate preventive and predictive maintenance activities to reduce downtime, improve reliability, and support production goals.
- Respond quickly to equipment breakdowns, oversee machine changeovers, and provide hands-on technical support to production teams.
- Manage maintenance parts inventory, critical spare parts, vendor support, and cost-conscious maintenance practices.
- Maintain accurate work orders, downtime logs, repair documentation, shift handovers, and equipment performance updates.

Compensation and Benefits

- Pay rate: $35.00 per hour.
- Job type: Direct hire.
- Work location: Onsite in Buffalo, NY 14225.
- Full-time opportunity.

Required Qualifications and Skills

- Lead maintenance activities in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
- Drive preventive and predictive maintenance programs for production and packaging equipment.
- Troubleshoot and repair electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, PLC, and automated equipment systems.
- Support equipment reliability, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives.

- 5 to 10 years of industrial equipment maintenance and repair experience.
- Experience troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.
- PLC troubleshooting and industrial controls experience.
- Ability to read blueprints, schematics, and technical documentation.
- Knowledge of preventive maintenance practices, equipment reliability, and root cause analysis.
- Experience with manufacturing equipment, automated systems, packaging equipment, or production machinery.
- Strong leadership, coaching, communication, and team development skills.
- Ability to prioritize maintenance work in a fast-paced production environment.
- Strong commitment to safety procedures, including Lockout/Tagout requirements.
- Technical college diploma, industrial trade license, journeyman certification, or equivalent technical training preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

- Previous lead technician, maintenance supervisor, shift lead, or team lead experience.
- High-speed packaging equipment maintenance and repair experience.
- Injection molding maintenance and processing experience.
- Tooling maintenance and repair experience.
- Experience with IMD vision systems, inspection equipment, slitting equipment, or pleating systems.
- Experience using Windows-based maintenance or production software.
- Machine shop, welding, metal fabrication, brazing, plumbing, or refrigeration systems experience.
- Ability to support new equipment installations, plant projects, production launches, and occasional travel for equipment training or machine buyoffs.

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