Maintenance Team Lead (2nd Shift)

AB Volvo; Grover (NC); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Maintenance Team Leader, where your expertise will shape sustainable transport solutions. In this pivotal role at the Kings Mountain Operations facility, you'll lead a dedicated team of technicians, ensuring safety and quality while driving continuous improvement. Your leadership will inspire a culture of excellence, fostering collaboration and innovation. With a commitment to sustainable practices and a focus on employee development, this role offers the chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment. If you're passionate about making a difference and leading a high-performing team, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of maintenance leadership experience in manufacturing.
• Strong leadership and communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of maintenance technicians during production downtime.
• Ensure safety, quality, and financial targets are met.

Skills

Leadership

Safety Management

Communication Skills

Technical Maintenance

Continuous Improvement

Education

Associate’s Degree

5+ years in maintenance leadership

Tools

Computerized Maintenance Management System

Job description

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future? If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.

As a Maintenance Team Leader, you will hold an important role in the Kings Mountain Operations facility. You will report directly to the Maintenance Manager and support the long-term success of the Volvo Group and KMO by providing leadership. You will be responsible for safety, quality, delivery, continuous improvement, environment, people development, and cost of the maintenance process as well as cascading and involving your team members in the business objectives.

Main activities and responsibilities for these roles:

1. Lead a team of maintenance technicians to complete work orders during planned production downtime.
2. Support reactive maintenance activities handed down from previous production shifts, working with your team to correct issues primarily on MIG and resistance spot welding equipment, robotics, and hydraulics.
3. Complete standard shift reports daily and coach the maintenance team on completion of data capture for equipment breakdown events.
4. Lead your Maintenance team against set safety, quality, delivery, and financial targets by leading and coaching your maintenance team.
5. Continue the implementation of Volvo Production System (VPS), which means to implement standardized ways of working, develop the organization, and achieve contribution from all employees.
6. Full accountability and ownership of your team’s development, employee relations, project follow-up, midterm roadmap (0-1 year), and policy deployment from plant to operator level.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Safety:
Ensure a safe work environment and behaviors for all team members using a methodical approach to risk identification, mitigation, and competence development.

Leadership:
Inspire your team to work together to reach set safety, quality, delivery, and financial targets by leading and coaching your maintenance team. Ensure that the maintenance area objective(s) is clearly formulated and motivated to achieve the Kings Mountain Operations business objectives and strategy. Build autonomous teams, work with cross-functional networks, and create trusting relationships.

Communication:
Inspire and influence through a communicative leadership style with your team and cross-functional groups, ensuring all employees are aware of their responsibilities and contributions to the total result.

Behavior:
Demonstrate and coach to Volvo’s Values (Customer Success, Trust, Passion, Change, Performance) and Code of Conduct.

People Development:
Develop the industrial workforce to secure competence. Assess performance, competencies, and flexibility of employees within the department and initiate appropriate training, counseling, or corrective action to optimize efficiency and effectiveness.

Education and Experience:
Five (5) years minimum combined maintenance leadership and technical experience within a manufacturing environment.

Preferred Experience:
Associate’s Degree preferred; experience working in a lean manufacturing environment; knowledge of operating with Computerized Maintenance Management System.

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Who we are and what we believe in:
Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Joining Volvo Group offers you the opportunity to work with some of the world’s most iconic brands and be part of a global and leading industrial company that is harnessing automated driving, electromobility, and connectivity.

Every day, Volvo Group products and services ensure that people have food on the table, children arrive safely at school, and roads and buildings can be constructed. We are committed to driving the transition to sustainable and safe transport, mobility, and infrastructure solutions toward a net-zero society.

If you aspire to grow and make an impact, join us on our journey to create a better and more resilient society for the coming generations.