Maintenance Supervisor

General Skills Required:

• Possess high level of safety awareness.
• Ability to manage multiple projects/tasks and adjust priorities as necessary.
• Supervises and assigns the work of maintenance employees.
• Inspects work for completeness.
• Determines material, equipment, and supplies to be used. Transfers equipment and personnel from one project to another as necessary.
• Keeps timecards and other routine records through Kronos and SAP.
• Coordinates or inspects, operates and maintains the heating, cooling and ventilation systems.
• Coordinates and inspects major contract work on the electrical, plumbing, mechanical and other related systems in all aspects of the facility.
• Minimize severity or frequency of accidents of contractors and maintenance personnel through risk identification process.
• Review weekly maintenance schedule.
• Address concerns with the Maintenance Coordinator and Manager.
• Complete maintenance jobs in accordance with the highest standards of efficiency.
• Streamline associated repair costs and job execution.
• Ensure prompt repairs by responding to emergency breakdowns.
• Supply reporting to the maintenance coordinator on repair jobs including consumption of tools, materials, man hours and skill.
• Review equipment history files.
• Ensure accurate recorded histories in work order completions.
• Report maintenance performance during major overhauls turn arounds, shutdowns and start-up.
• Develop and execute training plan for maintenance workers.
• Provide grievance counseling when required.
• Assign and reassign work as per emergencies and plant priorities.
• Make sure that maintenance jobs are in accordance with all corporate policies and legislated regulations.
• Promote communication as well as good relations between the production and the maintenance departments. Ensure housekeeping, productivity, and quality of work standards are maintained.
• Update inventories and other supplies as needed.
• Ability to understand complex written and oral instructions.
• Thorough knowledge of the occupation hazards and corresponding safety precautions necessary for the safe performance of assigned duties

Interpersonal and leadership skills:

• Must possess good communication skills to interact with different groups of people effectively, both written and verbal
• Establish and sustain effective relationships with all stakeholders in order to foster an environment where innovation and cooperation are used to solve problems.
• Establish relationships with various functional and business leaders in order to drive continuous improvement.
• Communicate best practice reliability methods; insuring team focus is on implementing agreed-upon methods.
• Challenge peers, team members and customers to accept and apply new approaches, technologies and/or processes and facilitates teams to drive cost efficiencies and add economic value.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.
• Ability to formulate and implement action plans based upon troubleshooting and structured problem-solving analysis in order to drive results.
• Ability to lead by involving others in decision processes.
• Implement change, motivate others and encourage team development.
• Ability to influence others through demonstrated competence and respect for data and facts.
• Self-starter, capable of managing multiple priorities with minimal oversight.

Technical and project management skills:

• Demonstrated understanding of technology including complexities of products, machinery and costs.
• Competency in evaluating equipment function design and impact on operation or maintainability.
• Extensive knowledge of reliability technologies, practices, measurements and methods including root cause analysis, life cycle costing, Failure Analysis, RCM, Six Sigma, predictive sciences and condition monitoring.
• Machine Design.
• Process/Systems design.
• Engineering fundamentals (Mechanical, Electrical & Utilities)
• Ergonomic design.
• Construction practices.
• Regulatory/code/standards compliance.
• Technical Writing.
• Specification’s development.
• Development and interpretation of engineering documentation.
• Capital Project administration/project management processes and techniques.
• Project estimation and cost control.
• Defining scope of work.
• Annual planning preparation.
• Workload prioritization.
• Risk Assessment/Risk Reduction.
• Product and vendor evaluation.
• Operations/Manufacturing knowledge.
• Lean manufacturing tools – 5s, value stream mapping, process center-lining, standard work.
• Knowledge of GMP’s.

Computer skills:

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Applications.
• Kronos Payroll System.
• SAP knowledge, heavy CMMS experience.

Business/financial skills:

• Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and reporting.
• Storeroom processes and inventory management principles.
• Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
• Capital program/financial drivers.
• Supply Chain processes.
• Material Control processes.
• Product Knowledge.
• New Product process.

Qualifications:

Education:

• High School or GED. Eighteen months of education beyond high school level in general maintenance and repair, or a closely related area

Experience:

• Two years’ experience at a minimum is required in general maintenance or other maintenance responsibilities that would include the ability to recognize electrical, plumbing, and mechanical malfunctions or equipment failures, preferred for the experience to be in a fast production manufacturing environment.
• SAP PM experience a plus.
• Candidates will be required to pass a pre-employment background, drug screen.
• Must be available to work 12-hour day and night shifts, weekends, callouts.