Mechanical Area Lead

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (LP Building Solutions) is a leading provider of high-performance building solutions that meet the demands of builders, remodelers, and homeowners worldwide. We manufacture engineered wood building products that include an extensive offering of innovative and dependable building materials and accessories. LP’s values-driven culture creates an environment where talented and hardworking people thrive in an ethical, inclusive, challenging, and rewarding place to work. Since our founding in 1972, we’ve developed careers and provided advancement opportunities in the building products industry. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, LP operates more than 20 facilities across North and South America. For more information, visit LPCorp.com.

Job Purpose

To schedule and perform preventative and predictive maintenance. To serve as lead mechanic, assigning daily work to maintenance team.

In This Position You Will Have The Opportunity To

• Schedule and perform complex preventative and predictive maintenance functions and equipment repairs.
• Perform general fabrication and machinist work and troubleshoot problems, as necessary.
• Develop and train area maintenance personnel.
• Serve as lead mechanic and assign daily work to maintenance team.
• Learn, teach, and develop predictive maintenance tools and applications.
• Assist with development of weekly work plans and oversee execution of weekly work plans including documentation.
• Fill in for Maintenance Supervisor as needed.
• Development or revision of area PMs and/or predictive maintenance tasks.
• Proficient in EAM using the program for recording PM work, predictive and corrective work performed.
• Record daily through EAM, predictive, and corrective work performed.
• Identify parts needed to perform tasks and track through EAM.
• Ensure work areas are properly maintained, clean, and orderly and tools placed in proper storage areas.
• Perform other duties as necessary and in accordance with safety and environmental rules and regulations.
  
  

What do I need to be successful?

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Demonstrated leadership/supervisory experience.
• Expert knowledge of preventative and predictive maintenance functions and maintenance equipment and tools.
• Strong time management, organization, and prioritizing skills.
• Strong oral, computer, written communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
• Ability to read and interpret safety rules and regulations, schematics, blueprints, and written repair manuals.
  
  

Education

• 2 years of technical training in general maintenance.
  
  

Experience Preferred

• 5 years’ general maintenance experience and demonstrated leadership/supervisory experience required.
• Alternatively, any equivalent combination of education and experience that demonstrates the ability to perform the key responsibilities of this position.
  
  

Work Environment

• OSB Manufacturing Plant
• Ability to climb, bend, stoop, squat, lift at least 50 lbs., work in confined spaces, and work at substantial height.
• Ability to use an assortment of hand tools, pullers, hoist, jacks, drill motors and presses, saws, man lifts, portable crane, cables, winches, forklifts, ladders, welding equipment, acetylene torches, rigging, etc.
• Ability to work with oils, greases, solvents and cleaning solutions, fire hoses and extinguishers, insulating materials, structural steel and plates, welding gases, etc.
• Ability to supervise and perform key responsibilities listed above
  
  

LP offers competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits and programs including health and welfare benefits, 401(k) program, career mobility, tuition reimbursement, volunteer opportunities, profit sharing and more.