Lead IV, Maintenance

Overview

We are hiring a Lead IV, Maintenance to join our Maintenance team!

Are you safety focused and detail oriented? In this role, you will direct maintenance activities across our facilities to support optimal manufacturing uptime at the lowest possible cost. You’ll document and communicate actions and irregularities to maintain continuity among work teams.

We are hiring a Lead IV, Maintenance to join our Maintenance team in Vista. You will plan, coordinate, and oversee the daily work of our Maintenance Mechanics while keeping our building systems, mechanical, plumbing, pneumatic, and electrical, running safely and efficiently. You will schedule the team, prioritize work orders, guide preventive and predictive maintenance, and help develop programs and estimates that keep operations continuous and cost effective.

• Can you lead and coach a maintenance crew? Safely direct and coordinate Maintenance Mechanics to sustain production and meet cost targets.
• Are you proactive about asset health? Drive preventive and predictive maintenance, implement alterations and improvements that protect company assets and keep operations continuous.
• Are you organized with CMMS discipline? Maintain equipment, parts, and supplies inventories, verifying stock levels through the CMMS.
• Do you build team capability? Provide training and guidance that improves department performance while reinforcing safety, 5S, and continuous improvement.
• Do you keep everyone aligned? Document and communicate actions and ongoing needs to ensure seamless handoffs across shifts and teams.
• Can you focus on compliance and standards? Ensure schedules, time cards, safety practices, and continuous improvement goals are consistently met.

• High school diploma or GED required, associate degree in a technical field preferred
• 4+ years of maintenance experience in manufacturing, including time in a lead role directing mechanics
• Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, PLC controls, troubleshooting skills and welding
• Ability to read and interpret equipment manuals, electrical schematics, and service procedures
• Familiarity with preventive and predictive maintenance methods
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel and Project
• CMMS experience to open, assign, and close work orders and manage parts inventory;
  Dude Solutions preferred
• ERP exposure to parts and work order transactions is a plus
• Proven ability to schedule crews, prioritize work orders, and coordinate across shifts

At Watkins Wellness, we believe everyone should ‘Feel good. Live well.’ We offer employees the opportunity to join a dynamic, growing industry leader with an outstanding and well-deserved reputation for leadership and commitment to our employees, customers, and community. Our employees are eligible to receive exceptional health and wellness benefits, paid time off, company bonus, profit sharing, 401k match, education assistance, and much more.

We are proud of the people we are and the products we make — products that make a difference to the health and well-being of others.

We look for candidates that exhibit (always Ethical, endeavors to be Transparent, embraces Inclusion, welcomes Diverse backgrounds and perspectives, Accommodating, believes in Work-Life Balance, puts Safety First, Accountable, values Relationships, Passionate, Team Player, and Goal Driven).

The employee must frequently lift and move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We offer competitive compensation determined by each individual's relevant experience, skills and education.

Hiring Range: $26.5 - $41.14 hr.

Company:
Watkins Manufacturing