Maintenance Lead - Production Maintenance

Get ready to experience employee ownership with Worzalla! Sure, we offer competitive pay, a comprehensive benefits package, and sign on bonuses. But don't join our team solely for those reasons. Join our team to experience our unique employee ownership culture of great responsibility, great opportunity, and great reward!

As a print solutions provider specializing in high profile and award winning books, Worzalla has crafted and printed quality books for more than a century. And over the past few years, books sales have soared even higher as people have rediscovered a love for reading!
To ensure our quality books make it into the hands of millions and millions of readers around the world, we are now hiring a Maintenance Lead in our Maintenance Department! You will plan and coordinate the work assignments and projects for the production maintenance team.
Continue reading to learn more about becoming an employee owner in a company that will invest in you and your future.
Your Responsibilities

• Identify needs for maintenance of equipment and schedule repairs as needed to keep production equipment from unnecessary downtime.
• Coordinate facility projects, communicating effectively with all levels of management to achieve successful project results.
• Schedule preventive maintenance in a proactive manner, manage immediate repair needs to maintain maximum levels of production.
• Maintain plant infrastructure including waste collection equipment, environment equipment, compressed air, central vacuum systems, and electrical distribution.
• Maintain all state, federal, and OSHA regulations and required permits. Analyze production equipment for improvements in increased functionality.
• Assist with equipment installations.
• Troubleshoot technical problems; maintain knowledge and understanding of electrical and mechanical operations including nomenclature of all plant equipment.
• Maintain department inventory and stock, evaluating inventory needs, vendors, and service providers to provide maximum cost savings.
• Provide effective team leadership which includes providing supervision to all shifts; effectively communicating; serving as a positive role model to team members in the areas of safety, work ethic, and morale; providing feedback to manager regarding staffing and training of crew; motivating staff in support of department objectives and timely and effective schedules to ensure department goals are met; effectively delegating and assigning maintenance duties to team members; assisting in training as needed; and promoting the concept of working together as a team and with other departments, shifts, and crews to build continual improvement within Worzalla.
• Think and act like an employee owner by being:
• Safety-minded - Think before you act, never put your safety or the safety of others at risk
• Quality-focused - Follow critical quality procedures
• Customer-centered - Strive for excellence, honor your commitments to co-workers and customers, deliver results safely and timely
• A positive leader - Continuously improve and grow, be solution-focused
• An awesome team member - Arrive on time each day physically and mentally ready to go, treat others how you want to be treated, help others learn

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Your Opportunities*

• Training program
• Career advancement opportunities
• Educational assistance
• Idea implementation system for associates
• Clean, safe, and ergonomic-focused work environment
• Shareholder meetings to learn about the business and our results
• Organized activities to support the community

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Your Rewards*

• Wage dependent on qualifications and experience.
• Health insurance plans to meet your needs:
• Option 1: $2,000 individual/$4,000 family deductible; 80% co-insurance; $85/month single, $141/month associate 1; $197/month family
• Option 2: $4,000 individual/$8,000 family deductible; 80% co-insurance; $59/month single; $88/month associate 1; $117/month family
• Up to $1,125 contribution from Worzalla into health savings account

• 100% employer paid dental insurance for associate and their family
• 100% employer paid vision insurance for associate and their family
• Seven paid holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day
• Paid time off (PTO): Earn up to 32 hours with perfect attendance during your first 90 days. Receive 104 hours in your first full year. Additional PTO awarded based on years of service.
• 100% employer paid basic life insurance equal to 1x annual base earnings
• 100% employer paid short-term disability
• 100% employer paid long-term disability
• Voluntary additional, spouse, and dependent life insurance
• 401K with discretionary match
• Funeral leave
• Employee assistance program
• Employee stock ownership plan: Designed to make each team member an employee owner by allocating shares to them. Upon retirement/separation from the Company, the shares are purchased back from the employee owner, who then receives payments in accordance with the ESOP.
• Referral bonus program
• Peer-to-peer recognition and reward
• Fun events and celebrations throughout the year such as Worzallapalooza-a month long celebration of our employee owners that includes daily drawings for prizes ranging from $25 to $500 plus amazing grand prizes.
• On-site health clinic staffed by RN and NP
• Annual wellness program with quarterly wellness campaigns. Great wellness incentives such as a Peloton, Bowflex weights, travel vouchers, and more!
• And this is a big one-employee owner profit sharing bonus! When the company does well, so do you. Annual profit sharing bonuses for production associates range from a couple of hundred bucks to a few thousand.

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Qualifications*

• Associate’s degree in a related field or minimum of five years of maintenance and manufacturing experience.
• Knowledge of blueprints and schematics.
• Knowledge of and experience working with machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance; programmable logic controllers and Human Machine Interfaces (HMI’s); single and three phase circuits, solid state, servos, and AC/DC motors and drives; OSHA standards and equipment maintenance required.
• Ability to perform routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed
• Must be participative and develop a work environment in which cooperation, empowerment and teamwork among crew is the accepted norm.
• Ability to learn and use company-specific computer applications and software required.
• Ability to pass pre-placement exam and pre-employment drug screen
• Ability and desire to think and act like an employee owner (see Your Responsibilities above)

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Next Steps*

• If you're ready for the responsibilities, opportunities, and rewards that come with employee ownership, we want to talk with you!
• Click the Apply button to submit your application for consideration.
• Watch your email for additional communication.
• Not quite ready to apply yet? Contact Liesl at 715.254.3263. She'd love to share more about who we are and what we do!

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About Worzalla*
Worzalla is among America’s most respected book manufacturing companies, with a wonderful 125 year history. Each and every day we have the opportunity to work with the most distinguished book publishers in the world. Our goal is to have a positive impact in carrying out our mission and never lose sight of our responsibility. We maintain our customer focus and our passion for making physical books a reality. We believe in the importance of literacy, education and the spread of knowledge. We recognize the power of ideas and the value of creativity.
At Worzalla, it really does start with our people. That's another great part of working with Worzalla-you will work with great people. Our team members are a big part of our product. Their work ethic. Their commitment. Their talent. They are why our customers love us.

Job Type: Full-time