Maintenance & Reliability Lead - Water/Wastewater

Waggoner Engineering; Monroe (LA); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive program

Healthy workplace

Referral bonus

Health benefits

Career development

Flexible schedule

Community service opportunities

Job summary

Waggoner Engineering, Inc. seeks a Lead Operator in Monroe, LA to support our water/wastewater facilities. You will manage preventive maintenance, oversee CMMS, and supervise maintenance and E&I staff while ensuring safe operations and high uptime.

Join a collaborative team and contribute to meaningful projects across our communities. The role offers a hybrid schedule, competitive benefits, and growth opportunities through hands-on leadership and reliability-focused maintenance.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of industrial or utility maintenance experience, including membrane or reverse osmosis treatment.
• Two years in a lead or supervisory role.
• Knowledge of mechanical and electrical maintenance, rotating equipment, pumps and motors, valves, and chemical feed systems.
• Ability to read and interpret drawings, O&M manuals, safety requirements, and procedures, and to train and supervise maintenance staff.
• Thorough knowledge of safety requirements with the ability to enforce them.

Responsibilities

• Owns the CMMS and the asset register aligned to Meta standards; plans, schedules, and directs preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance across mechanical, pumping, chemical, and RO support systems.
• Builds and manages the critical-spares and warranty programs and sets minimum and maximum spare levels from observed consumption.
• Directs and performs mechanical and electrical maintenance and repairs; diagnoses equipment problems and returns assets to service under lockout/tagout.
• Leads reliability-centered maintenance and criticality ranking; implements predictive routes including vibration, motor current, and pressure and flow signatures with the E&I / Controls Technician.
• Supervises the maintenance and E&I staff; assigns and inspects work; investigates issues and directs corrective action.
• Coordinates planned maintenance with the Lead Operator and Meta before equipment is isolated or process conditions change.
• Submits work orders, purchase orders, and maintenance documentation and supports procurement of parts and services.
• Enforces safety requirements including lockout/tagout, confined space entry, energized work practices, and line breaking; participates in the 24 hour, 7 day on-call standby rotation.

Skills

Industrial maintenance

Supervisory

CMMS administration

Mechanical & electrical knowledge

RO/membrane systems

Safety compliance

Education

High school diploma or GED

Trade/technical training

Tools

CMMS software

Job description

Waggoner Engineering, Inc. seeks a Lead Operator in Monroe, LA to support our water/wastewater facilities. You will manage preventive maintenance, oversee CMMS, and supervise maintenance and E&I staff while ensuring safe operations and high uptime.

Join a collaborative team and contribute to meaningful projects across our communities. The role offers a hybrid schedule, competitive benefits, and growth opportunities through hands-on leadership and reliability-focused maintenance.