Automation Maintenance Lead — Reliability & Repairs

Newrest; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Newrest in Houston is seeking a Maintenance Lead to direct technicians supporting automated production equipment. The role ensures safe corrective responses during production, leads preventive maintenance execution, and coordinates with the Automated Line Lead and Automation Manager for reliable operations.

Responsibilities include training technicians, triaging breakdowns, escalating complex defects, maintaining spare parts data, and ensuring compliance with HACCP, GMP, and safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Train, coach and assign maintenance technicians; verify competence for electrical, mechanical and controls tasks.
• Triage breakdowns during production, diagnose and repair, communicate restoration estimates and confirm equipment readiness before release.
• Escalate complex defects to equipment manufacturers or supplier hotlines; open, track and close support tickets with evidence and follow-up.
• Build and schedule preventive maintenance with Production, execute to documented standards and record completion, findings and follow-up work.
• Review recurring failures and downtime with the Automation Manager and Continuous Improvement team; drive root-cause corrective actions.
• Ensure lockout/tagout, guarding, contractor control and site food safety rules during all interventions.
• Maintain spare-parts master data, stock levels, movements and work-order records in Fractall.
• Set critical spares and reorder points using equipment risk, lead times and consumption; coordinate replenishment and periodic counts.
• Report equipment availability, maintenance backlog, preventive completion and critical stock risks to site leadership.
• Share recurring faults, equipment availability, preventive-maintenance findings and critical spare-parts risks with Group Innovation, in coordination with the Automation Manager.
• Propose reliability and maintainability improvements, contribute technical lessons learned to common standards, and support deployment of Group-approved changes at the site.
• Escalate major technical issues, supplier support gaps and systemic failures requiring Group intervention; maintain an action log and report progress through resolution.
• Ensure compliance with HACCP/GMP related to personal hygiene and observe security precautions as mandated by unit management.

Job description

Newrest in Houston is seeking a Maintenance Lead to direct technicians supporting automated production equipment. The role ensures safe corrective responses during production, leads preventive maintenance execution, and coordinates with the Automated Line Lead and Automation Manager for reliable operations.

Responsibilities include training technicians, triaging breakdowns, escalating complex defects, maintaining spare parts data, and ensuring compliance with HACCP, GMP, and safety standards.