Maintenance Group Leader Job Description
The Maintenance Group Leader is responsible for leading and coordinating maintenance activities in the Body Shop to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operation of manufacturing equipment. This position leads skilled trades employees, assigns daily work, prioritizes preventive and corrective maintenance, responds to equipment downtime, and supports production requirements.
The role provides leadership for robotic welding systems, weld equipment, conveyors, fixtures, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, electrical controls, PLCs, HMIs, safety systems, and other Body Shop manufacturing equipment.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead maintenance employees and provide coaching, development, and performance feedback.
- Ensure compliance with safety requirements, PPE, Lockout/Tagout, ESWP, and high-risk work procedures.
- Coordinate preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance.
- Monitor equipment alarms, downtime, work orders, PM compliance, and maintenance backlog.
- Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for recurring equipment failures.
- Support Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Safety, and other plant functions.
- Maintain standardized work, STS, TIS, JES, SOS, and maintenance procedures.
- Support TPM, continuous improvement, shutdowns, weekend work, and special projects.
- Ensure proper cross-shift communication and accurate documentation in Maximo and other plant systems.
- Drive improvements in safety, quality, cost, responsiveness, people development, and environmental performance.
These responsibilities are consistent with Body Shop maintenance standards related to alarms, PM&C, production, Maximo, shift-to-shift communication, spare parts, training, and performance metrics.
Work Appropriately
This is an onsite position located at Silao Assembly – Body Shop. The employee must be available to work the assigned shift, overtime, weekends, shutdowns, and other schedules required to support plant operations. The position requires frequent interaction with Production, Engineering, Quality, Safety, skilled trades employees, and plant leadership.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Electronic, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Automotive Engineering, or a related field.
- 1–3 years of experience in the maintenance of automated manufacturing lines.
- Knowledge of industrial robots (FANUC), PLCs (Allen-Bradley), communication networks, resistance welding, and body shop conveyor systems.
- Experience in failure analysis, equipment reliability, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to lead teams, foster collaboration, and communicate effectively.
- Innovation-oriented, with the ability to identify improvement opportunities and adapt to technological changes.
- Intermediate English proficiency.
- Availability to work rotating shifts (4-on/3-off schedule).
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