Lead Maintenance Team: Safety & Reliability

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Missouri; On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Sports Jobs Limited is seeking a Maintenance Team Lead for our manufacturing facility in Missouri. You will lead daily maintenance on a designated shift, ensuring safety, reliability and high team performance while coordinating with production leadership.

You will manage preventive, predictive, corrective and emergency maintenance activities, develop the team through coaching and training, and drive reliability improvements across electrical and mechanical systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.
• 3+ years of experience leading or coaching maintenance teams.
• Strong understanding of electrical and mechanical systems.
• Experience with CMMS and maintenance planning processes.
• Knowledge of preventive, corrective maintenance and reliability principles.
• Understanding of labour practices and employee relations fundamentals.
• Experience conducting incident investigations and implementing corrective actions.
• Strong communication, problem-solving and organisational skills.
• Proven coaching and leadership capability with a people-first approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance teams in preventive, predictive, corrective and emergency activities.
• Ensure compliance with safety, LOTO, permit and regulatory requirements.
• Prioritise work based on production schedules and risks.
• Coordinate handoffs and communicate status to Production Leadership.
• Drive equipment reliability improvements through planning and execution.
• Develop team capability through coaching, training plans and performance management.
• Foster a culture of accountability, engagement, inclusion and continuous improvement.
• Support troubleshooting and rapid response to minimise downtime.
• Lead safety investigations and corrective actions.
• Monitor maintenance performance metrics and drive improvement actions.

Skills

Leadership

Team coaching

Safety leadership

Maintenance planning

Problem solving

Communication

Organisational skills

People development

Electrical systems

Mechanical systems

Reliability principles

Education

Technical degree

Skilled trades certification

Tools

CMMS

SAP CMMS

PEGA

Job description

Global Sports Jobs Limited is seeking a Maintenance Team Lead for our manufacturing facility in Missouri. You will lead daily maintenance on a designated shift, ensuring safety, reliability and high team performance while coordinating with production leadership.

You will manage preventive, predictive, corrective and emergency maintenance activities, develop the team through coaching and training, and drive reliability improvements across electrical and mechanical systems.