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Maintenance Operations Lead, Manufacturing Systems

Powell Houston-Canton

Houston, TX 77015 • $34.00 to $35.00 / hr • 10/8/2026

Job Description

Job Description
Ready to be the goto problem solver for a highoutput plant?

Do you thrive on troubleshooting highvoltage electrical issues, coordinating contractors without missing a beat, and keeping a CMMS humming with accurate data? Can you switch from diagnosing an industrial welder to optimizing HVAC performanceand still make time to coach a teammate?

What you'll own
  • Operational leadership: Keep crews aligned on company initiatives, shift goals, and safety policies. Meet frequently with your supervisor to report issues, craft solutions, and drive departmental alignment.
  • Performance & coaching: Champion recognition for top performers (raises, awards, promotions). Tackle performance gaps through expectation setting, counseling, warnings, and formal disciplinary recommendations when needed.
  • Contractor management: Oversee thirdparty onsite contractors to deliver safe, highquality major repairs and structural improvements across the facility and construction yard.
Where you'll make an impact
  • Production equipment diagnostics: Troubleshoot and repair a diverse mix of automated and manual machinery, including specialized assets like industrial welding equipment and abrasive blasting equipment.
  • Highstakes maintenance: Execute heavyduty diagnostics and rapid repairs on highvoltage electrical, plumbing, and specialized manufacturing equipment to minimize downtime.
  • Partner with engineering: Collaborate with production/manufacturing engineers on process optimization and equipment infrastructure improvements.
Facilities, utilities, and safety systems
  • Critical utilities: Maintain commercial HVAC, electrical distribution systems, and site plumbing for reliable uptime.
  • Lifesafety systems: Test, maintain, and quickly repair fire suppression and detection systems and key mechanical devices across the premises.
  • Response cadence: Balance emergency calls with daily preventive maintenance to keep all assets in top condition.
Tools, yard assets, and data discipline
  • Tools & instruments: Apply expert skill with hand tools, power tools, and electrical measuring instruments to isolate and fix faults.
  • Yard & construction support: Assist with upkeep, inspections, and minor repair coordination for staging machinery and structural assets in the active construction yard.
  • Digital rigor: Manage supply inventories and maintenance records using a CMMS, aligned to ISO 9000 Quality System requirements.
Minimum qualifications
  • Experience: 5+ years of facilities maintenance in manufacturing, heavy industrial, or construction environments.
  • Team leadership: Demonstrated success as a lead, crew leader, or foreman guiding contractors and internal teams.
  • Technical depth: Advanced knowledge of 3phase electrical systems, motor controls, hydraulics, and pneumatics; able to interpret complex blueprints, schematics, and manuals.
  • Software fluency: Proficient with PCs and Windows; strong database experience highly preferred.
  • People & pace: Strong multitasking, interpersonal, and organizational skills suited to a fastpaced fabrication floor.
  • Language: Basic English (written and verbal) to read industrial blueprints and complete safety documentation.
  • Physical demands: Comfortable working in nonclimatecontrolled settings, lifting 60+ lbs, and operating at heights or in confined spaces.
Working & environmental conditions
  • Environment: Safetysensitive role primarily in a temperaturecontrolled manufacturing/industrial space with occasional outdoor work.
  • PPE: Able to wear required PPEsafety shoes, hard hats, bump caps, safety glasses, hearing protection, safety harnessesand respirators when necessary.
  • Heights & fall protection: Work from step ladders, Aframes, and elevated structures (generally up to 20 feet) using proper lift gear and Fall Protection Equipment.
  • Agility & movement: Maintain balance and agility while walking, standing, crouching, stair and ladder use; bend at waist and knees; extend hands/arms freely.
  • Endurance & upper body: Continuous standing/walking; frequent use of upper extremities; work with both arms above shoulder height and fully extended.
  • Lifting & tool use: Lift up to 50 lbs; frequent use of hand tools and power tools.
  • Vision & coordination: Strong handeye coordination; close, distance, color, peripheral, and depth perception; ability to adjust focus.
Note

This posting summarizes the role’s essential functions and is not a complete listing of all potential duties and tasks.