Maintenance Supervisor
The Maintenance Supervisor plays a vital role in leading, guiding, and inspiring the Maintenance department, ensuring a seamless operation across all shifts. This individual serves as a coach, mentor, and facilitator dedicated to developing and empowering the maintenance staff. With a comprehensive understanding of the entire production process, the Maintenance Supervisor skillfully navigates the intricate relationships within the process flow. This position calls for an enthusiastic leader capable of training their team to manage processes collaboratively and consistently. The ability to troubleshoot and unite the team to swiftly resolve challenges while minimizing disruption to production is crucial. The Maintenance Supervisor is entrusted with enhancing system efficiencies, directing employee activities, and overseeing the daily workflow and coordination of the maintenance department, all while ensuring compliance with established maintenance specifications, SOPs, and plant policies. This role also encompasses a variety of tasks, including installing, troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining production and facility equipment. Above all, the supervisor must uphold safety practices with the utmost priority, fostering a safe and productive environment for all employees. Together, we will achieve excellence and drive our success forward!
Essential Functions, Duties, and Performance Responsibilities:
- Assists the Maintenance Manager in executing the preventative maintenance program to ensure effective and efficient service.
- Performs highly diversified duties to install and maintain production machines and the plant facility.
- Performs mechanical tasks and projects including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting, and repair of production machines.
- Collaborates cross-functionally to diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test, and make necessary adjustments.
- Develops and coordinates daily work orders for maintenance staff, including but not limited to preventative maintenance schedules, installation of new equipment, and repairs.
- Assists the Maintenance Group Manager in working with the production team to maintain all plant and production efficiencies while continuously striving to reduce plant downtime and improve the preventive maintenance program.
- Performs minor and major repairs on plant equipment in the production facility.
- Assists in completing PMs within the production facility on various equipment, including, but not limited to, Steam Supply, Air Supply, Refrigeration, Wastewater, Water Supply, Air Handling Systems, and production equipment.
- Troubleshoots electronic/electrical components, including 480v equipment.
- Assists and performs skilled maintenance activities to include, but not limited to, construction, welding, electrical, mechanical, and plumbing as needed.
- Provides leadership and direction to the maintenance team.
- Leads and supervises a crew of 8-12.
- Communicate safety issues/concerns to the Safety Coordinator and direct manager.
- Complies with OSHA Safety and Health rules and all company policies and procedures.
- Performs other projects and duties as assigned.
Position Specifications/Qualifications:
Required Education and Experience:
- High School Diploma/GED or equivalent.
- Minimum 5 years experience in a maintenance or related role in an industrial milk processing plant.
- Minimum 2 years experience in managing personnel in a highly diverse and challenging work environment.
Preferred Education and Experience:
- AA degree in mechanical, electrical, industrial maintenance, or related fields.
- Capable of sanitary tig welding.
- Industrial electrical experience.
- Experience with prior preventative maintenance systems.
- Food industry experience, preferably dairy.
Skills:
- Proficiency in or knowledge of using a variety of computer software applications, especially Excel, Microsoft Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint software.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Effective prioritizing, organizing, and time management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead people and get results through others.
- Demonstrated ability to be flexible, execute plans and strategies, and achieve desired results.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively to achieve defined goals on time.
- Experience solving problems, analyzing information, highlighting relevant information, and suggesting appropriate actions.
- Adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands, and can deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
- Identifies and resolves problems promptly and gathers and analyzes information skillfully.
Physical Requirements:
- Must possess strength, stamina, and mobility to regularly perform heavy physical work outdoors in all weather conditions and with exposure to potentially hazardous conditions.
- Excessive ascending and descending of ladders and stairs using feet and legs and hands and arms regularly. Body agility is emphasized.
- Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances continuously.
- Repetitive motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and fingers continuously.
- Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist regularly.
- Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to rest on the knee or knees.
- Crouching: Regularly bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine continuously.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas using the spoken word. Includes activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Lifting: Able to lift, up to 100lbs occasionally, up to 50lbs regularly.
Working Conditions:
- The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside.
- Subject to extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than two hours occasionally.
- There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout to be heard above the ambient noise level.
- Subject up to at least 92db's.
Machinery Used:
- Various hand and power tools including mechanical hand tools, multi-meter, ammeter and megohmmeter, drill press, grinders, saws, cutting, torches, and pipe threaders.
- Drive a motor vehicle and/or heavy construction equipment.
- Computer monitor, welders, and lifts.
