Maintenance Team Advisor (Supervisor) - Night Shift

Responsibilities

• Supervise and guide a team of maintenance technicians, providing guidance, training, and performance management.
• Cookbook daily maintenance activities, ensuring timely and efficient completion of work orders, daily and weekly schedules.
• Promote teamwork and continuous learning within the team.
• Promote and enforce a culture of safety by conducting risk assessments, safety audits, and implementing corrective actions as necessary.
• Foster a collaborative and safety-conscious culture, championing health and safety protocols within the maintenance team, ensuring adherence to all OSHA, PSM, FDA, USDA, HACCP, SQF, and food safety standards.
• Serve by example in maintaining a clean and hazard-free work environment.
• Accurately track all maintenance activities, including repairs, parts usage, and downtime events.
• Utilize enterprise asset management system (EAM) for scheduling, tracking, and documenting team’s work orders and equipment history.
• Prepare KPI reports on reliability, maintenance costs, and uptime, to share with management for awareness and improvements.
• Implement world-class maintenance practices (TPM, Lean Maintenance, RCM) to ensure production targets are met with minimal downtime.
• Coordinate with production, sanitation, quality, and engineering teams to minimize production disruptions and ensure that maintenance activities are aligned with manufacturing schedules.
• Manage maintenance budgets, controlling costs while optimizing resource utilization and minimizing downtime.
• Evaluate maintenance workflows to identify and implement process improvements that increase efficiency and productivity.
• Track and report key performance indicators (KPIs) on reliability and performance such as equipment uptime, response time to breakdowns, shift overtime and maintenance costs.
• Troubleshoot and resolve mechanical, electrical, and technical issues that arise within the production process.
• Maintain expertise in manufacturing equipment, such as pasteurizers, homogenizers, fillers, packaging machines, and refrigeration systems, ensuring all machinery is operating at peak performance.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams on capital projects and equipment upgrades.
• Precision assembly, lubrication best practices, contamination control applied to all work completed by team.
• Develop, implement, and manage preventive maintenance programs to ensure equipment reliability and longevity.
• Monitor and assess the condition of equipment, using predictive maintenance tools (PdM) to prevent breakdowns and drive reliability.
• Conduct regular inspections and audits to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements, providing update feedback to technicians and planners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Mechanical, Electrical, Biochemical or Biological, Engineering, Industrial Arts, or related technical field required, an Associate’s degree in a technical field will be considered.
• 1+ years of experience in Industrial work.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in a team environment.
• General computer skills; mechanical aptitude; interpersonal skills to work from a supplier oriented function.
• Ability to travel up to 5%.