Production/Maintenance Supervisor

Responsibilities

• Directly supervise and schedule the production personnel in the performance of daily activities as needed to meet goals and objectives.
• Provide leadership and performance counseling as needed to the hourly workforce.
• Exercise positive reinforcement as well as corrective action.
• Prepare and process production documents and maintain records.
• Provide front line processes, technical expertise, and problem solving as needed.
• Prepare plant production records, including product inventories, production rates, plant recoveries, and quality records.
• Follow up and ensure production non-conformance issues are addressed and corrected in a timely manner.
• Prepare requisitions, order plant supplies and parts, receive incoming freight and supplies, collect and process related documents.
• Participate in supervisor meetings.
• Direct safety efforts in the production process through on-site coordination and reporting.
• Follow up on all safety opportunities found upon inspection, take corrective actions.
• Be a leader in ES&H efforts on site.
• Other related duties as assigned by management.

Key Tasks

• Manages the mechanical work force and provides on-site expertise, ensuring the maintenance work is completed efficiently and effectively.
• Provides expertise to prepare, implement, and revise the Preventive and Predictive maintenance programs.
• Safeguards maintenance is planned, scheduled, and performed in the most cost-effective manner.
• Reviews work planning and weekly scheduling with the production supervisors and manager and attends weekly planning meetings.
• Sets up all parts and tools for craft workers before work begins.
• Maintains equipment availability to meet production demands.
• Champions proactive maintenance, encouraging all production and maintenance personnel to turn in found defects to be planned and scheduled using CMMS.
• Affirms emergency works and reschedules planned work as necessary.
• Ensures all data collected regarding work process and equipment is accurate and complete when being entered into the CMMS.
• Assists planner in sourcing parts and material as needed as well as scheduling component rebuilds.
• Interacts with vendors and assists in finding cost effective solutions to material needs.
• Oversees lubrication and PM maintenance tasks.
• Manages preventive and predictive maintenance plans for all plant equipment, and revise as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in business, engineering, or a related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of mechanical maintenance processes, including preventive/predictive maintenance procedures.
• Proven ability to handle multiple competing tasks and demands.
• Good leadership skills.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Good record keeping skills and basic computer skills.
• Basic math skills to calculate production rates.