
Maintenance Lead 2nd Shift Waverly NE
Waverly, NEFull-time$22.35–31.95/hrPosted 3 days agoStill listed 2 days ago
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The Maintenance Leader ensures assigned preventive maintenance and work orders are completed on time, supports team training and coaching, and conducts inspections and audits. The role coordinates maintenance projects, maintains safety and process programs, and monitors ammonia refrigeration equipment. It reports to the Maintenance Manager and Shift Supervisors and works a rotating 12-hour second-shift schedule.
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Job Details: Candidates who have previously worked for Tyson Foods will have a minimum rehire waiting period of 90 days and are limited to 3 times of employment.
Pay Range:
- $22.35 - $31.95 (pay based on experience) + $2 attendance bonus + $2 premium
- $3 shift differential for B shift.
Hours:
- Rotating 12 hr shift Schedules 2-2-3
- 1st Shift: 5:30 am – 5:30 pm or upon completion of assigned work
- B Shift: 5:30 pm – 5:30 am or upon completion of assigned work
SUMMARY: The Maintenance Leader will ensure that all assigned PMs and Work Orders are completed in a timely fashion and will report to the Maintenance Manager and Shift Supervisors via a daily pass down. The Leader will assist with departmental training and coaching of team members, perform daily inspections and audits, and ensure the team members are performing in accordance to the departmental SOP’s while maintaining company policies and values of safety, quality and efficiency.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ensure all work orders assigned to the shift are assigned correctly and completed on time while tracking and assessing individual associates workload
- Train all shift team members on the PM Program, Work Orders and Standard Operating Procedures
- Communicate expectations to team members in regards to team work, attitude and work performance while continually assessing individual performance
- Verify the Pre-Operational status of all equipment
- Maintain and update Lock Out Tag Out program
- Coordinate with Departmental Supervisors and Manager to plan all details for installations, rebuilds, and upgrades
- Ensure all GMP’s, HAACP, PSM Program, Company Policies and Safety Programs are followed at all times
- Continually audit and validate all departmental procedures revising when necessary
- Effectively cooperate and communicate with other department’s Leaders and Managers
- Obtain excellent working knowledge of all equipment and their components throughout the facility as well as all utility systems.
- Monitor and maintain ammonia refrigeration equipment in accordance with process safety management
- Complete and maintain all required reports
- Other duties as required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Proven leadership abilities
- Strong mechanical background required
- Ability to use hand tools and trades type tools
- Computer skills, MS Word, Excel Database, and e-mail
- Trained in the Maintenance of CMMS
- Excellent attention to detail, time management and organization skills
- Highly motivated self-starter who is willing to implement new processes and ideas
- Willingness to work overtime as required
- Ability to be on your feet throughout the majority of the shift
- Able to identify industry standard parts and assist in procuring parts as needed
- Ability to operate equipment safely and effectively.
Education and/or Experience:
- Associates degree in Mechanics/Automotive or Electrical Technology preferred
- 1-2 years’ experience in Facility Maintenance and/or Automotive Mechanic
- Some training in electrical principals and troubleshooting preferred.
Communication Skills:
- Must be able to communicate effectively.
Other Skills:
- Computer skills. General knowledge of Microsoft Office knowledge or training preferred.
Physical Requirements / Environment:
- Stand/Walk: Continuously (at least 8 hours a day)
- Lift/Carry: Frequently (1-10 lbs.), occasionally (up to 35-50 lbs.)
- Grasp: Frequently (3-4 hours a day)
- Occasionally (1-3 hours a day); bend/stoop, squat, crawl, climb, reach above shoulder, crouch, kneel, push/pull
- Continuously working around moving machinery, both inside and out with changes in temperature and humidity, exposure to dust and fumes, occasionally working on a ladder at unprotected heights, around and amongst dead birds and a strong chicken odor
Relocation Assistance Eligible: No Work Shift: 2ND SHIFT (United States of America)
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The successful candidate(s) must be willing and able to perform the physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.
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How this job compares
Set against the 11,389 open Maintenance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$22.35–31.95/hr
- Nebraska median$19/hr24 hourly ranges
- US median$18–20/hr3,732 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $27.15/hr, is 47% above the Nebraska median midpoint ($19/hr) — in the top quarter of Maintenance hourly ranges in Nebraska.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 56 open Maintenance jobs in Nebraska and 11,389 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Nebraska
- McDonald's31 open
- ADM2 open
- Cargill2 open
- Experience
- Maintenance postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (2,234 postings).
- Education
- 151 of the 11,389 open Maintenance jobs (1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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