Maintenance Supervisor

Maintenance Supervisor

As a Maintenance Supervisor, your role is pivotal in ensuring the smooth operation and compliance of workplace protocols. You are responsible for upholding rules of procedure and occupational safety and health instructions to maintain a safe work environment. This includes ensuring adherence to hygiene and storage rules at the workplace. You must follow & lead all process specifications and guidelines, with a particular focus on safety rules during interventions under lockouts and in automatic zones. Leading the Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment (QHSE) approach is crucial, as you will conduct VSCs and enforce commitments made. Additionally, providing training for new entrants on health, safety, and working conditions is essential to ensure they are well-prepared. Addressing losses such as water and energy by carrying out necessary repairs and working in coherence with energy policy is part of your responsibilities. This role requires a proactive approach to maintaining safety standards and ensuring operational efficiency.

Essential Functions

• Takes the lead for all emergent repairs, tracks frequency, and details of breakdowns.
• Organize, coordinate, control and optimize the activity of your team (in particular minimize non-value-added time)
• Supervise hierarchically and lead your team
• Monitor work order backlog, schedule in a timely manner to maintain a reasonable response time and level of open tickets
• Distribute the work, control its proper execution, and monitor data entry. Report forward as necessary to ensure system has meaningful & comprehensive data. Provide training to team on data entry as needed.
• Contribute to the development of employees (professional interviews, training actions, etc.)
• Implement management standards (field tour, 5 min point, maintenance point, 5S, visual management, passing of instructions in pre-shift meetings)
• Be a leader and carry out projects with the Maintenance Manager
• Ensure the smooth running of the workshop in terms of productivity and ensure coordination with the Production Departments
• Organize preventive & curative maintenance operations and check that the finished product is running smoothly, in close collaboration with production
• Ensure compliance with procedures, status of controls, recordings (CMMS) and calibration of tools
• Partner with department leaders to ensure regulatory monitoring of the installations (carrying out inspections, compliance)
• Carry out or participate in maintenance studies and services (specifications, consultation, technical choice, prevention plan, implementation, acceptance, preventive plan)
• Engage with the Maintenance Manager on budget
• Organize and verify records on quality documents and CMMS*
• Lead workgroups related to your job – LOTO, RCA’s, CMMS
• Ensure a healthy and constructive relationship between your team and the plant staff
• Be a source of proposals on changes to the service and facilities

Competencies

Job Knowledge - Quality of Work

Job Safety - Cost Control

Teamwork & Leadership - Inclusion& Communication

Supervisory Responsibility

This position manages the wastewater treatment team and all maintenance technicians. This role is responsible for the performance management and hiring of the employees within that department.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee works in a manufacturing environment with the following conditions:

Exposure to hot or cold climate frequently;

Exposure to noise and vibration frequently;

Exposure to chemical occasionally;

Exposure to wet and humid conditions frequently.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties on the job, the physical demands are:

Stand – continuously;

Stoop/Bend –frequently;

Squat –occasionally;

Crawl – occasionally;

Climb Stairs or ladders – frequently;

Reach – chest level, above or below – frequently;

Push - 75 lbs. occasionally;

Pull – 75 lbs. occasionally;

Lift/carry- 50 lbs. occasionally.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours vary depending on the shift and department. Overtime and weekend work is required at times. Vacation coverage as needed. Rotating on call duties.

Travel

Less than 5% travel is required for this position.

Required Education and Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent;
• Requires the ability to use basic shop mathematics; handbook formulas; to interpret simple blueprints or drawings, use a wide variety of tools or precision measuring instruments; may setup, re-tool, operate a somewhat complex machine;
• Electrical and pneumatic trouble shoots and repairs;
• Knowledge of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems;
• Inventory control;
• Preventive and predictive Maintenance;
• Lock out-tag out and industrial safety;
• Knowledge on maintenance management tools (CMMS) and excel;
• OSHA 30;
• Decision making and analytical capacity

• Ability to speak, read, write and comprehend English.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Minimum five years of experience in an industrial maintenance environment or dairy industry.
• Five or more years of experience leading a team.
• Ability to TIG/MIG weld and mentor others in this area.

Work Authorization/Security Clearance

Eligible to work in USA

Food Safety and Product Quality

This position is responsible for supporting the food safety management system and for communicating food safety issues to the Quality Department.

Affirmative Action Plan/Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Savencia Cheese USA provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Further, the company takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and employees are treated during employment without regard to any of these characteristics. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.