Maintenance Supervisor - growing manufacturing start-up site

There is a newly created Maintenance Supervisor role at a growing manufacturing site in Lebanon, KY facility where selected candidate is accountable for maintaining the integrity, reliability, and basic operating condition of all plant assets to ensure safe, compliant, and uninterrupted operation. The role is responsible for maximizing equipment uptime by increasing mean time between failures while minimizing mean time to repair through effective preventive and corrective maintenance strategies. Using performance data and reliability insights, will drive disciplined maintenance execution and continuous improvement to support stable operations and long-term asset performance. This start up site is with an international and established company. Will supervise 2 people in this role. This position reports to the Site Leader at this location. There are major company benefits with attractive medical, 5% bonus potential, 100% match on the 401k TO 5% and on a discretionary basis there could be up to an additional 5%.

Key Tasks:

Maintenance:

• Ensure Maintenance Plan is in place to meet legal, compliance and output requirements and to protect our assets.

• Triage helpdesk requests and assign resource to ensure reactive maintenance is completed in a timely manner to reduce impact to production.

• Be actively involved in fault diagnosis as well as resolution to minimize reoccurring faults.

• Where required follow Management of Change process to implement robust temporary and permanent solutions.

• Devise and monitor processes for ensuring the defined maintenance plan is adhered to and performance reported on every month.

• Forward plan maintenance activities to ensure adequate resource is in place and that Permit to Works and Risk assessments are completed.

• Be actively involved in plant maintenance when necessary to ensure the safe and efficient return on operation of equipment.

• Ensure that operational plant is maintained to the highest level of safety and environmental standards, with quick response to breakdowns. Implement asset care and condition-based monitoring where appropriate.

• For all scheduled shut down periods ensure comprehensive planning processes are in place to ensure all resources required are available in terms of parts and labor (internal and external). Post shutdown, critically review activities and document findings to drive improvement where necessary and to share best practice with other sites where applicable.

• Ensure appropriate level of spare parts are defined and maintained in stock. Be involved in and maintain FMECA study. Frequently assess and review spare parts for suitability.

• Ensure adequate maintenance logs (including downtime reporting) to allow timely and accurate data collection allowing data led decision making.

• Ensure completion of all PPMs by maintenance technicians as per requirements. Carry out analysis of equipment failures to identify trends.

• Develop Service Level Agreements with the Site Leader and ensure regular assessment and revision of supplier/service contract performance.

• Work with Site Leader and Accounting to manage spend against budget.

With the Site Leader, develop a long-range service plan that align with distillery shutdowns and provide costings to enable accurate budgeting.

• Develop and manage the site Inventory System to ensure alignment with site stock and feedback consumption of critical spares to the finance team.

Compliance: Safety, Health, Environment & Quality:

• Leading by example, promote a culture within your team where safe working practices are strictly followed to ensure compliance with all legal and internal requirements.
• Support Site Leader with the implementation of Company-wide safety recommendations across the site to drive a culture within the site of ‘Don’t Walk By’ (DWB), Work Safe/Home Safe.
• Document and maintain Standard Operating Procedures and Risk Assessments for all key tasks and by auditing be confident these are being followed to ensure safe systems of work.
• Actively encourage the reporting of unsafe acts and conditions for all personnel and visitors on site.
• Ensure completion of Safety and Environmental pre-startup tasks.
• Plan and manage contractors on site to ensure safe systems of work are adhered to.
• Assist with third party audits as required.

People Leadership & Development:

• Plan and schedule appropriate manpower to support 24/7/365 operation of the site.
• Ensure that the maintenance team are trained and competent to carry out their roles & tasks.
• Identify and ensure completion of required training & development where needed, at the appropriate level, ensuring training records are maintained.

• Develop and implement training plan for new maintenance technicians. Actively assist where required with training of new employees.

• Ensure the site maintenance team are supplied with necessary resources to complete their role safely.

• Lead and manage direct reports, ensuring people development plans are in place and completed as per Company process.

• Ensure good or exceptional performance within team is highlighted and recognized and that development plans are put in place and actioned where performance could be improved.

• Lead appropriate team meetings to ensure team understand requirements and site performance.

Continuous Improvement:

• Ensure that opportunities for continuous Improvement for systems and processes are identified and implemented for your areas of responsibility.

Other:

• Competent in operating the plant and able to operate plant as required in abnormal/emergency situations.

• Complete training shifts as required to maintain competency.

• Able to assist hands on with maintenance tasks as required. This includes being exposed to the outdoor weather elements 70+% of the time.

• Be part of the on-call structure for the site.

Summary: The above is a summary of the key duties the job-holder is expected to perform. It is possible that from time to time you will be requested to carry out other duties, which are not listed in this job specification.

Person Specification

Key Skills (Essential):

• Permit to work experience
• Excellent mathematical skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Integrity & Honesty
• Natural attention to detail
• Exceptional organizational & planning skills
• An ability to problem solve and more importantly to pro-actively problem solve at times without guidance
• Ability to analyze data and recognize trends
• Ability to work off own initiative, multi-task and work at a fast pace
• Analytical and critical thinking skills;
• Excellent IT skills especially advanced knowledge of Excel
• Experience of, or can clearly demonstrate, an ability to lead a team.

(Preferred):

• Leadership and soft skills training and/or experience
• Experience of working under remit of a quality management system and/or compliance quality standards
• Experience of purchase ordering systems and/or maintenance management systems
• Budget management training and/or experience
• Auditing experience (training can be provided)
• Ideally, some knowledge of the industry/sector.

Experience (Essential):

• At least 5 years’ experience working in a modern dynamic manufacturing business
• Can demonstrate strong experience of leading a small maintenance team and/or planning and executing maintenance activities
• Experience of plant operations and meeting production targets in same or similar industry

(Preferred):

• Experience of Anaerobic digestion or a closely related operation
• Experience of setting up a new site and/or commissioning activities would be a distinct advantage
• Experience setting up a CMMS system
• Experience of auditing
• Safety qualifications and Certifications
• Six Sigma or similar process related training

Principles & Behaviors:

These provide guidance to support us in working together as one team. Working this way, we will be continually improving to ensure that we stay ahead of our competition.

Core Spirit

(CO – Collaborative; RE S – Responsible; PI – Pionee ri ng; T – Talented )

COLLABORATIVE:

Working together to share knowledge across the Company’s Family; no silos, no fences but bridges and open minds. We all have a part to play, working within our own teams and collaborating across teams. We encourage partnership style working throughout all functions allowing us to combine knowledge, skills and expertise. We use our whole talent pool to overcome everyday challenges and achieve our goals.

RESPONSIBLE:

We take personal responsibility for ensuring that Health & Safety excellence and protecting the environment are embedded in everything we do. We do what we say we will, when we say we will do it and we take responsibility and ownership. We are trustworthy (honest and true to ourselves and all those we work with). We are respectful – treating each other as we would want to be treated. We acknowledge the benefits of confidentiality and protecting our innovations and ideas to ensure that the company always maintains its competitive advantage.

PIONEERING:

We encourage thinking and behavior that differentiates us from our competition. We openly and respectfully challenge thought processes, we ‘think outside the box’ and we always share innovative ideas and good practice across our teams. We continue to lead the way in developing our technologies to deliver a sustainable, low carbon future.

TALENTED:

We use our knowledge, experience and skills to the best of our ability to ensure we all deliver to the highest standards in our own roles. We utilize the ‘hidden talents’ that we might possess for the wider interests of the company. In return, appreciation will be shown through recognition, reward, training & development and opportunities to progress within the company family.