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Maintenance Lead

Koch Business Solutions, LP
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Texas, Katy
Jul 09, 2025

Your Job

As a maintenance lead, you will be responsible for leading the maintenance team to perform a variety of tasks daily that ensure that our shop, office, and warehouse are in working order. You will have the opportunity to advance your knowledge in all aspects of general facilities maintenance including partnering with key vendors, site management, and overseeing special projects.

Our Team

The facilities and maintenance department at OPD plays a crucial role in ensuring that the Katy location's physical environment is safe and functional for our employees. Our team maintains regular upkeep of the shop, warehouse, and office spaces in addition to responding to any sort of emergency response such as equipment failure, natural disaster, or any other event that could disrupt normal business operations.

What You Will Do

  • Establish and coordinate specific preventative maintenance throughout the facility, including equipment.
  • Plan and manage special projects (materials, vendors, crew, schedule, timeline) as they arise (indoor and outdoor).
  • Collaborate with the team in servicing general household maintenance, including maintaining indoor lighting, grounds appearance, repairing various fixtures and office equipment (including doors, windows, small appliances, chairs, and cube furniture), light household plumbing maintenance and repair for commercial sinks and toilets, interior painting and finishing for walls, trim, and doors.
  • Use high attention to detail to recognize hazards or opportunities for maintenance throughout the property.
  • Seasonal outdoor projects such as gutter clean out & window washing. Regular outdoor projects such as mowing, pressure washer, weedeater.
  • Oversee on-site contractors (cleaning crews, groundskeeping, HVAC, electricians, etc.). Partner with on-site contractors for additional work needed or gaps in service.
  • Procure parts and/or services (contractor sourcing and management) to complete projects.
  • Responsible for prioritizing service calls and requests while building mutually beneficial relationships.

We expect all maintenance employees to:

  • Actively participate in a strong safety culture.
  • Recognize safety hazards and risk.
  • Participate in onsite safety policies and procedures.
  • Display a positive attitude and be able to work in a team environment.

Physical requirements:

  • Capable of working in outdoor weather and environmental conditions extreme heat and humidity, extreme cold, and high elevations.
  • Stand or walk for extended periods of time up to 11 hour per day
  • Be able to lift 60 lbs.
  • Be able to climb a ladder with harness at least 10' off ground.
  • Moving the entire body. Considerable use of arms, legs, climbing, lifting, walking, stooping, crawling, twisting, reaching and bending on a regular basis.
  • Must have good hand eye coordination.
  • Use hands to handle, control and feel objects and/or tools

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Must have demonstrated knowledge of general building maintenance
  • Must be willing and able to work overtime up to 50 hours per week including Saturdays
Able to clearly communicate issues (verbally and written) and present solutions Must be willing and able to work outside in extreme heat and humidity, extreme cold, and high elevations

What Will Put You Ahead

  • Past experience being responsible for light plumbing and painting
  • Past experience working as a lead or supervisor of hourly employees

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, Optimized Process Designs (OPD) provides clients with detailed engineering packages in all disciplines, single-point procurement for all equipment and materials, fabrication and direct-hired construction services throughout the United States. We leverage in-house capabilities and provide services with faster speed to market to help deliver increased cost savings while minimizing risk.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).

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