Maintenance Planner & Team Lead

1st Shift : $50/hr+ (DOE)

About the Role

The Maintenance Planner & Team Lead plays a critical role in ensuring the reliability, safety, and efficiency of our cold‑storage distribution facility. This position combines hands‑on maintenance planning with frontline leadership of an 8–10‑person maintenance technician team. You’ll be responsible for developing preventive maintenance strategies, coordinating repairs, managing work orders, and ensuring all equipment—mechanical, electrical, refrigeration, and material‑handling—operates at peak performance.

This is a full‑time, onsite, first‑shift position offering $50/hr or more depending on experience.

Key Responsibilities:

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

Develop, schedule, and optimize preventive and predictive maintenance programs for facility equipment, including refrigeration systems, conveyors, automated shuttle system, and building infrastructure.Review incoming work orders, determine priority levels, and assign tasks to technicians.Coordinate planned downtime with operations to minimize disruption to production and shipping.Maintain accurate maintenance records, asset histories, and documentation within the CMMS.

Team Leadership

Supervise, coach, and support a team of 8–10 maintenance technicians across varying skill levels.Provide daily direction, assign workloads, and ensure timely completion of tasks.Conduct performance evaluations, identify training needs, and support skill development.Promote a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Technical & Operational Support

Collaborate with operations, warehouse, and refrigeration teams to address facility needs.Manage spare parts inventory, vendor relationships, and procurement of materials.Ensure compliance with OSHA, food safety, and facility safety standards.

Safety & Compliance

Enforce safety protocols and ensure technicians follow proper procedures.Participate in safety audits, root‑cause analyses, and corrective action planning.Maintain documentation required for regulatory compliance in a cold‑storage environment.

Qualifications

5+ years of industrial maintenance experience; cold‑storage or food distribution experience strongly preferred.2+ years of leadership, supervisory, or lead‑tech experience. (Preferred)Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, and refrigeration systems (ammonia or Freon experience a plus).Experience using a CMMS for planning, scheduling, and documentation.Ability to read technical manuals, schematics, and engineering drawings.Excellent communication, organization, and problem‑solving skills.Ability to work in cold‑storage temperatures for extended periods.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Mountville, PA.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $50.00 - $55.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job\n classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be\n subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits\n available for this temporary role may include the following:\n\n • Medical, dental & vision\n • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital\n • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available\n • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)\n • Short and long-term disability\n • Health Spending Account (HSA)\n • Transportation benefits\n • Employee Assistance Program\n • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Mountville,PA.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Feb 6, 2026.

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\n About Aerotek:\n\n

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

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Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

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The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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