Maintenance Supervisor-2nd Shift- Aurora, IL

Maintenance Supervisor

Maintenance Supervisor Creative Contract Packaging Company- Aurora, IL

Opening: 2nd Shift 2:00pm - 12:00am. Monday-Friday with occasional Saturdays

Hormel Foods Corporation, based in Austin, Minnesota, is a global branded food company with approximately $12 billion in annual revenue. Its brands include PLANTERS, SKIPPY, SPAM, HORMEL NATURAL CHOICE, APPLEGATE, WHOLLY, HORMEL BLACK LABEL, COLUMBUS, JENNIE-O and more than 30 other beloved brands.

Responsibilities:

• Makes departmental decisions regarding maintenance (maintenance management)
• Develops an understanding of the equipment and manufacturing processes
• Trains and supervises mechanics, electricians, plumbers and other skilled trades
• Offers sound technical and engineering advice for facilities performance improvement
• Utilizes a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)
• Uses CAD to gather information and design custom alterations to equipment
• Selects vendors for equipment purchases
• Troubleshoots mechanical processes
• Installs and starts-up new equipment and processes
• Develops creative ideas to cut costs
• Supervises equipment design changes
• Monitors and controls energy use
• Researches alteration requests and provides justification
• Negotiates and oversees contract work
• Authorizes, delegates and follows-up with maintenance work-orders, schedules preventive maintenance for equipment
• Ensures safety and security of physical plant and facilities
• Verifies and completes administrative work
• Communicates department projects with plant management

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 3 years of maintenance supervisory experience.
• Innovative, have good technical and mechanical knowledge, and possess excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills
• Applicants must not now, or at any time in the future, require employer sponsorship for a work visa.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer.

Location: Creative Contract Packaging Company - Aurora, IL

Benefits: Hormel Foods offers an excellent benefits package. Competitive base salary plus bonus, annual merit increase performance reviews, medical, dental, vision, non-contributory pension, 401(k) immediate eligible, stock purchase plan, relocation assistance, paid vacation, FREE two-year community/technical college tuition for children of employees.

Advancement: Maintenance Supervisor is often the stepping stone to maintenance engineering. Maintenance Engineering is often the stepping stone to corporate engineering, project engineering, design engineering, or plant management. Additional opportunities may exist in different departments, facilities, or subsidiaries. Hormel Foods' "promote-from-within" philosophy rewards outstanding performance.

The base pay range for this position $ 69,500-$97,000 per year; however, actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills set, level of experience, and specific office location.