Maintenance Supervisor

Maintenance Supervisor | Growing Coffee Manufacturing Facility | $75,000-$85,000 + 10% Bonus | Lenoir City, TN

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Salary: $75,000 - $85,000 per hour

A bit about us:

Founded over 100 years ago and operating globally with facilities across multiple regions, we are a leading supplier of natural food and beverage ingredients serving manufacturers around the world. We combine deep agricultural roots with innovative processing technologies to deliver safe, high-quality, traceable ingredients while maintaining a strong commitment to food safety, sustainability, and operational excellence.

Why join us?

• Global Industry Leader: Join a well-established organization supplying ingredients to top food and beverage manufacturers worldwide
• Career Growth: Opportunities to develop technical expertise and advance within a large global organization
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and retirement programs
• Paid Time Off & Holidays
• Impactful Role: Own critical foreign material prevention systems that directly support food safety and customer quality standards
• Travel & Exposure: Work across multiple facilities with approximately 50% travel

Job Details

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Supervise maintenance personnel and coordinate repairs, equipment installations, and plant maintenance.
• Maintain safe, reliable equipment operation while reducing downtime and improving asset and labor utilization.
• Schedule corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance; define staffing and job requirements.
• Develop and manage the maintenance budget with the Operations Manager.
• Partner with engineering on capital projects and installation of new automated production equipment.
• Maintain maintenance work orders and purchase orders; source parts, equipment, materials, and outside services.
• Lead downtime reviews, reliability improvements, cost-reduction projects, and selected continuous improvement initiatives.
• Create SOPs and standard work instructions; conduct process analysis and process mapping.
• Coordinate sanitation activities and maintain housekeeping of the building and grounds.
• Manage maintenance staff training, technical and safety competencies, attendance, and overtime.
• Collaborate with operations, production, and quality teams, including participation in daily production meetings.
• Support regulatory compliance, workplace safety, and food safety programs, including SQF, HACCP, GMP, QA/QC, sanitation, and hygiene.
• Evaluate prerequisite programs supporting HACCP; conduct audits, document evidence, and prepare reports.

Needed:

• High school diploma required; technical college certificate or diploma strongly preferred.
• Minimum five years of progressive industrial maintenance experience.
• Intermediate to advanced mechanical skills, including troubleshooting and maintaining production equipment.
• Knowledge of workplace health and safety practices and food safety procedures.
• Ability to identify and correct equipment or process issues that could interrupt production or affect product quality.
• Basic computer proficiency, including Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to prioritize work, communicate across departments, and lead direct reports.
• Ability to perform frequent lifting and bending and occasionally lift 35 pounds.
• Local residence or a manageable commute to Lenoir City; no relocation assistance.

Preferred:

• Previous maintenance leadership experience.
• Food manufacturing or consumer packaged goods experience; coffee roasting experience is especially valuable.
• Packaging machinery, automated production equipment, and pneumatic systems experience.
• Welding and fabrication skills.

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