Maintenance Lead -Internal Posting

Fiberon provides high-performance, eco-friendly wood alternative decking, railing, and cladding for easy, carefree living.  Our manufacturing process uses 100 million pounds of recycled plastics every year saving our oceans and environment from waste. Fiberon is part of Fortune Brands Outdoors & Security business segment along with Therma-Tru, Master Lock, Fypon, and Larson Manufacturing. We win together as a team. Learn more at www.Fiberondecking.com

• Benefits:
• Health care benefits day one!
• Retirement savings
• Product discounts
• Training opportunities
• Safe & clean work environment

Non-Supervisory role to assist and provide effective communications for maintenance team, reporting to Maintenance Manager.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include, but not limited to the following:

• Facilitates maintenance work requests from production floor, determines priority and ensures  coworkers are aware of priority and assignments
• Ensures team members comply with all safety and good Manufacturing Practices, leads 6S efforts for maintenance shop  
• Communicates to production, maintenance management,  and quality assurance equipment break downs and estimated time needed to complete repairs
• Confers with vendors, management, engineering and quality control personnel to resolve maintenance problems and recommend measures to improve operations and conditions of machines and equipment
• Conducts meetings at the end of each shift to update incoming maintenance personnel on status of break downs, repairs, and troubleshooting done during the previous shift.
• Conducts meeting at start of shift to go over shift priorities and assignments as well as training.
• Actively participates in preventive/predictive maintenance processes.
• Tests and adjusts equipment to meet performance specifications.
• Initiates purchase orders for parts and machines.
• Assist in the development, implementation, and evaluation of maintenance policies and procedures.
• This is a hands on position, carrying out maintenance work along with the team and setting a high example in your work.
• Other duties may be assigned

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Tools, materials, methods and practices used in mechanical maintenance related to production equipment.
• Deep level of electrical circuits knowledge required, including PLC experience  .
• Knowledge of maintenance disciplines (mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and facilities).
• Operation of power and manual tools.
• Operation of light and heavy equipment.
• Ability to work 12 hours shifts in a continuous manufacturing operation.

Education/Experience:

• Requires a high school diploma/GED
• 2-5 years’ experience in a multi-craft maintenance function.
• 2-5 years previous industrial/manufacturing experience.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN.

Equal Employment Opportunity

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. To support our efforts, we invite you to voluntarily share your gender, ethnicity, and veteran status. This information is confidential and helps us ensure an inclusive hiring process and improve our diversity initiatives.

Reasonable Accommodations

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