Maintenance Supervisor

About the role

Valley Queen is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor to lead maintenance operations in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment. This role is responsible for supervising maintenance technicians, ensuring equipment reliability, supporting plant operations, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader with strong technical troubleshooting skills and experience managing maintenance teams.

Responsibilities

• Coach, train and provide direction to maintenance staff to ensure assigned work and projects are completed in an acceptable time frame while meeting the quality requirements of the department.
• Act in a leadership capacity for projects that are assigned.
• Perform maintenance related duties (mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic) to install and maintain food processing and production equipment.
• Identify root cause of plant and production equipment issues and put new programs and procedures in place to permanently address issues.
• Provide oversight to technicians doing planned, unplanned and preventive repairs of all plant equipment in a premier manner that achieves work order goals.
• Maintain equipment manuals, Emaint data and work orders so that the department has current and correct resources.
• Maintain 100 percent accuracy on all Emaint transactions.
• Ensure all controls calls are responded to in an appropriate timeframe.
• Maintain the corrective action database (CAD) to be current within 30 days.
• Maintain plant utility systems in a manner that does not cause any production downtime.
• Ensure technicians safely and properly operate plant utility systems (steam, air handling, ammonia, compressed air, electrical, water and sewer).
• Actively participate in and adhere to all PSM requirements.
• Actively participate as a member of the emergency response team.
• Comply with all company safety rules to achieve no injuries and no lost-time accidents.
• Maintain standard records pertaining to daily work requirements in a manner that makes them a reliable data source for safety, quality and regulatory requirements and audits.
• Understand and adhere to all GMPs and food safety policies and procedures and perform all work in a manner that ensures the highest standard of food safety and quality.
• Use tools, spare parts and supplies in a responsible manner yielding maximum profitability for VQ while maintaining equipment and facility to the highest