Technician, Lead (1st Shift)
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Job overview
The Lead Technician directs a team responsible for installing, maintaining, and repairing specialized equipment. The role includes troubleshooting complex technical issues, training junior staff, assigning work, and reporting to the Operations Supervisor. The technician also ensures safety, quality, and productivity standards, inspects completed work, and maintains documentation. Candidates need a high school diploma or GED, five years of mechanical experience, English proficiency, and U.S. citizenship.
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Title: Technician, Lead (1st Shift)
Location: United States-Texas-Grand Prairie-Triumph Accessory Services
Job Number: 18989
Description:
The Lead Technician will direct a team of technicians, overseeing the installation, maintenance, and repair of equipment while ensuring safety, quality, and productivity standards are met. The Lead Technician will troubleshoot complex technical issues, train junior staff, assign work, participate in interviewing candidates, and report to senior leadership. The Lead Technician will lead a team of technicians and report to the Operations Supervisor.
What you will be responsible for:
Supervises and mentors junior technicians, assigns daily tasks, and manages performance. Performs complex troubleshooting, installation, and maintenance on specialized equipment. Ensures compliance with safety regulations, inspects completed work, and maintains documentation. Identifies and resolves technical issues, reducing down time. Maintain thorough knowledge of all processes and equipment. Ensuring adherence to industry standards, regulations, and company policies.
Qualifications:
What you will need to be successful in this role :
High School Diploma or GED. Minimum of five years of mechanical experience. Must be able to read and write proficiently in English. Must be a US Citizen
The rewards of your career at AAR go far beyond just your salary:
Competitive salary and bonus package Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage. 401(k) retirement plan with company match Generous paid time off program Professional development and career advancement opportunities
Physical Demands & Work Environment:
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to sit, stand, bend, reach and move about the facility. The environmental characteristic for this position is an office setting. Candidates should be able to adapt to a traditional business environment. AAR provides accommodation in accordance with applicable laws through all stages of the hiring process. If you require accommodation for any part of the application and or hiring process, please advise Human Resources.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
How this job compares
Set against the 5,602 open Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$45–72K/yr39 salary ranges
- Texas median$23–35/hr186 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 544 open Technician jobs in Texas and 5,602 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience — more than three in four Technician postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 2,736 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 3,181 of the 5,602 open Technician jobs (57%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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