Maintenance Team Leader

Requisition Number: 72600

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Role Purpose

The Maintenance Team Leader will provide proactive leadership and direction for all plant maintenance activities, ensuring equipment reliability, operational efficiency, and a strong safety-first culture. This role drives maintenance excellence by optimizing resources, fostering team development, and promoting continuous improvement to support production goals and exceed customer expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee shift maintenance operations, ensuring alignment with production targets and operational priorities.

• Provide clear direction and prioritize tasks for maintenance team members during each shift.

• Effectively manage personnel, materials, and equipment to maximize uptime, throughput, and maintenance quality while controlling costs.

• Ensure all preventive, reactive, and predictive maintenance tasks are completed safely and meet or exceed internal production requirements.

• Maintain strict compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory standards during all maintenance operations.

• Champion a safety-first culture, ensuring all team members adhere to established protocols.

• Foster a positive team culture while driving process discipline and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Monitor and report key maintenance metrics to leadership, ensuring alignment with production performance goals.

• Develop staffing strategies, training programs, and tooling requirements to maintain a skilled and prepared workforce.

• Build strong collaborative relationships with operators, stakeholders, and management to support operational success.

• Conduct performance evaluations and provide constructive feedback and recognition to drive employee growth and engagement.

• Lead onboarding and training for hourly maintenance employees to ensure quick integration and operational readiness.

Work Hours

• Ability to work 12-hour 2-3-2 pitman schedule for 24/7 to support production operations.
• Flexible hours may be required to support coverage/weekend/evenings operations requirements.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Business, or related technical field and 2+ years of manufacturing maintenance experience.
• In Lieu of a bachelor’s degree a 5 + years of direct supervision of maintenance employees in a fast-paced production environment.

Required Skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present technical information clearly to diverse audiences.
• Proven ability to coach, mentor, and lead maintenance teams, setting clear expectations and driving accountability for results.

• Experience collaborating across departments to align maintenance priorities with production goals and resolve issues quickly.

• Demonstrates integrity and ethical decision-making while fostering a positive, safety-first culture.

• Strong commitment to process discipline, ensuring compliance with maintenance procedures and continuous improvement practices.

• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and adapt to evolving technologies and processes.

• Focused on delivering reliable service and support to internal production teams, ensuring minimal downtime and maximum efficiency.

Desired Skills

• Experience with overseeing maintenance teams during production ramping/fast-paced environment.
• Experience training, mentoring and team building.
• Experience with CMMS Software (Maximo) for tracking equipment maintenance.
• Journeyman experience in applicable trade.

Soft Skills

• Positive Attitude: Maintains optimism and motivates the team during challenges.
  
• Initiative and Commitment: Takes ownership and drives solutions proactively.
  
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Builds trust and works effectively with other departments.
  
• Flexibility: Adapts to changing priorities and steps in where needed.
  
• Organized: Keeps tasks, schedules, and documentation clear and efficient.
  
• Conflict Resolution: Addresses issues constructively to maintain team harmony.

This position does not support immigration sponsorship.

The range for this position is $79,166.00 - $108,854.00 assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.

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Your well-being is our priority. Our compensation and benefits package supports your health and wellness, financial aspirations, and career from day one.

• Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives align with key business results and ensure you are rewarded when the company performs well. When Corning wins, we all win.
• As part of our commitment to your financial well-being, we provide a 100% company-paid pension benefit with fixed contributions that grow throughout your career. Combined with matching contributions to your 401(k) savings plan, Corning’s total contributions to your retirement accounts can reach between 7% and 12% of your pay, depending on your age and years of service.
• Our health and well-being benefits include medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, family building support, fitness, company-paid life insurance, disability, disease management programs, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to support you and your family.
• Getting paid for our work is important, but feeling appreciated and recognized for those contributions motivates us much more. That’s why Corning offers a recognition program to celebrate successes and reward colleagues who make exceptional contributions.

We prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected status.

Corning is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and considers requests for reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws. Individuals with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs may request reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, or access other benefits and privileges of employment. To submit a request for reasonable accommodation related to disability or religion, please contact us at [email protected] .