Maintenance Supervisor

About the Role

The Maintenance Supervisor is a hands-on position that leads, directs, and coordinates activities of maintenance technicians engaged in repair, maintenance, and installation of machines, tools, and industrial manufacturing equipment. This role provides leadership, ensures safe work practices, and develops or approves procedures to maximize efficiency in maintenance processes and personnel. The incumbent will manage inventory of maintenance parts and supplies, interact with suppliers, and collaborate with internal departments.

Responsibilities

• Manage maintenance team across all shifts.
• Lead maintenance planning to ensure proper scheduling, effective utilization of maintenance man-hours, minimization of work backlog, and PM compliance.
• Monitor operation of plant equipment and systems to minimize unplanned downtime, anticipate and solve problems in a timely manner.
• Serve as the technical resource to maintenance and operations regarding engineering solutions, equipment improvements, and emergency repairs.
• Troubleshoot hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical issues using schematics.
• Manage maintenance costs, including labor, parts, and outside services for repairs.
• Serve as backup for setting up, removing, and storing production molds in accordance with documented procedures.
• Serve as backup to maintain usable fill guns and ejectors through bench testing, cleaning, rebuilding, and inspecting.
• Serve as backup for water treatment: collect, test, and report water samples for hardness, pH, and other parameters.
• Develop and promote systems for world-class maintenance, including preventative and predictive maintenance, clean work areas, and improved equipment reliability.
• Coordinate contractor work on-site for production equipment and facility repairs.
• Manage and review standard operating procedures and work instructions related to maintenance.
• Request capital expenditure approvals for maintenance-based projects.
• Function as the maintenance point person for management of change approval on new and modified equipment.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory affairs, including FDA, OSHA, SQF mechanical integrity, and process hazards analysis (PHA).
• Ensure adherence to all Safety and ISO programs and procedures.
• Interface and collaborate with cross-functional teams to foster efficient working relationships.
• Promote a culture of safety, quality, and environmental stewardship.
• Uphold and maintain organizational values and standards.

Requirements

• Associate degree in a technical field; or three to five years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Supervisory experience required.
• Proficient in Microsoft applications and maintenance planning systems.
• Experience monitoring and maintaining low-pressure boilers, air compressors, air dryers, and vacuum pumps.
• Experience maintaining forklifts.

Skills

• Business Acumen: Understands business implications of decisions; aligns work with strategic goals.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Interpersonal Skills: Excellent people skills and a consultative approach; tactful in dealing with people at all levels.
• Problem Solving: Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; gathers and analyzes information skillfully; develops alternative solutions; works well in group problem-solving situations; uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics; capable of solving complex problems with strong critical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Professionalism: Approaches others in a tactful manner; reacts well under pressure; treats others with respect and consideration; accepts responsibility for own actions; follows through on commitments; displays highest ethical standards.
• Organizational Skills: Superior organizational skills and the ability to assemble resources for multiple projects/activities to accomplish goals.
• Self-Motivation: Strong sense of urgency, self-motivated, and positive.
• Change Leadership: Ability to actively lead change initiatives.
• Initiative: Takes the initiative to ask for and offer help when needed.
• Confidentiality: Maintains the utmost level of confidentiality in dealing with sensitive information.
• Detail-Oriented: Detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

Work Environment / Physical Demands

• Frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts and risk of electrical shock.
• Occasionally exposed to work in high places, outdoors weather conditions, and vibration.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
• Regularly required to stand, walk, bend, use hand dexterity to operate office equipment, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear.
• Frequently required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Occasionally required to sit.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 35 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.