Electrical Maintenance Team Leader

Location: On-site in Sharpsville, PA

Schedule: Rotating schedule, six days per week with one weekday off. Candidates must be flexible to support the assigned shift.

Our client is a respected and financially stable industrial manufacturer seeking a hands-on Electrical Maintenance Team Leader to oversee the performance, reliability, and continuous improvement of critical production equipment. This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced electrical maintenance professional who enjoys leading from the floor, mentoring technicians, and solving challenging automation and electrical issues in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

This position offers excellent compensation, exceptional benefits, long-term career stability, and the opportunity to make a visible impact by improving equipment uptime and developing a high-performing maintenance team.

This Role Offers

• Excellent medical, dental, vision, and retirement benefits.
• Long-term career growth with a well-established manufacturing organization.
• High visibility leadership position with opportunities to influence plant performance.
• Stable production environment with modern industrial equipment and automation technologies.
• A collaborative culture that values technical expertise, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Focus

• Provide day-to-day leadership for the electrical maintenance team while remaining actively involved on the production floor.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts involving PLCs, automation systems, electrical controls, motors, drives, conveyors, and overhead cranes.
• Support preventive and predictive maintenance initiatives that improve equipment reliability and minimize downtime.
• Coach, mentor, and develop maintenance technicians while promoting accountability and professional growth.
• Coordinate maintenance priorities with operations to maximize production efficiency.
• Respond quickly to equipment failures and provide technical leadership during troubleshooting and repairs.
• Identify opportunities to improve maintenance processes, equipment performance, and overall plant reliability.
• Maintain a strong commitment to workplace safety and ensure compliance with established safety standards.
• Assist with planning maintenance activities, coordinating resources, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.

Skill Set

• Minimum of 4 years of industrial electrical maintenance experience.
• At least 2 years of supervisory or maintenance leadership experience within an industrial environment.
• Strong PLC programming and troubleshooting experience.
• Experience troubleshooting Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs).
• Knowledge of industrial automation systems.
• Experience with industrial electrical wiring.
• Strong understanding of AC and DC motors.
• Experience maintaining conveyor systems and overhead cranes.
• Excellent electrical troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Proven ability to lead a team while remaining hands-on with equipment and repairs.
• Strong communication, coaching, and organizational abilities.

Preferred Experience

• Allen Bradley PLC platforms.
• HMI programming or troubleshooting.
• Heavy manufacturing, metals, steel, mining, automotive, paper, or similar industrial production environments.
• Continuous improvement and equipment reliability initiatives.

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