Maintenance Supervisor

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate Safety as the number one priority by addressing unsafe conditions promptly and proactively.
• Drive and maintain compliance with the Hazard Recognition Process (HRP) and SORRY in their organization.
• Ensure safe plant operation and product quality.
• Foster crew participation and ownership of results.
• Take accountability for team's performance and metrics through short interval measures.
• Engage crew members to instill a sense of urgency and consistently manage performance.
• Confront and manage conflict directly and effectively.
• Understand individual team members’ strengths and needs and proactively seek coaching opportunities to develop the team.
• Develop the team’s problem-solving capabilities and facilitate team problem-solving activities.
• Create/foster a positive work environment.
• Cook with other site functions and departments.
• Eliminate barriers for employees to execute work safely and efficiently.
• Ensure tasks are understood, supervised, and accomplished to a high standard.
• Compile and implement crew safety action plan.
• Provide performance development for employees including feedback, cross training, mentorship, coaching, discipline/corrective action (attendance, behavior, etc.).
• Coordinate training and development activities for employees.
• Responsible for ensuring employees follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and identify best practices and work to make them SOP’s.
• Responsible for facilitating effective communication with all applicable parties to ensure customer expectations are met.
• Communicate reasons for success when maintenance targets are achieved and provide solutions when there are performance deviations.
• Coordinate with production regarding equipment availability.
• Maintain equipment and develop preventative maintenance (PM) plans.
• Oversee maintenance efficiency / costs while also identifying areas for cost savings or improvement projects.
• Manage through the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) including the vacation schedule and call out processes for overtime and absenteeism.
• Monitor and maintain training files and records for the applicable area of responsibility.
• Leverage site resources to drive culture change, continuous improvement and site wide maintenance excellence.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and reduce costs while safely meeting production targets.
• Foster open communication and engage team members to maximize performance.
• Report on performance objectives and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) within maintenance.
• Answer grievances and perform administrative tasks including but not limited to, timecards, overtime, vacation approvals, and occurrences.
• Participate in shift hand-off meetings.
• Work maintenance weekend duty when applicable.
• Provide relief for Maintenance Supervisors during times of absence both planned and unplanned.
• If serving as a Relief Supervisor and no crew coverage is required, position may be asked to assist with:
• Auditing Work Place Exam (WPE) logbooks and areas to ensure compliance to WPE standards
• Participate and engage in safety meetings
• Participate in Safety Job Observations audits
• Audit PMs to ensure they are completed correctly and thoroughly across the organization
• Partner with the Human Resources department on labor relations, including contract administration
• Support ISO 9000 efforts

Skill, Capability And Educational Requirements

• A High School Diploma or equivalent (GED) from and accredited educational institution and 3 years of plant maintenance and/or production experience OR
• A B.S. in Engineering or related scientific field from an accredited four-year college or university and one year of plant maintenance and/or production experience.
• Previous supervisory experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated capability with M.S. Office including Word, Excel, Teams, and Outlook.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.