Maintenance Supervisor II Vernal, UT

Maintenance Supervisor II Vernal, UT

The Simplot Company is a diverse, privately held global food and agriculture company headquartered in Boise, Idaho. We are a true farm-to-table company with an integrated portfolio including food processing and food brands, phosphate mining, fertilizer manufacturing, farming, ranching and cattle production, and other enterprises related to agriculture.

Summary The Mine Maintenance Supervisor provides leadership and direction in the effective operation and maintenance of equipment and processes in a safe, environmentally sound and efficient manner in accordance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations. This position will supervise, schedule, evaluate, train, and motivate hourly personnel. The Supervisor must maintain a high level of confidentiality. The incumbent is also expected to provide leadership in process, organizational, and personnel improvement efforts. The Supervisor will also perform at a high level in positively relating to others and positively representing to others the views of his/her leadership. The incumbent will be a proactive maintenance and operations leader, identifying process and equipment vulnerabilities and creating plans to act upon findings.

Key Responsibilities

• Balance cost control with equipment reliability and performance objectives.
• Be responsible for equipment uptime and account for equipment downtime.
• Organize outages to minimize equipment downtime by establishing effective cross departmental partnerships
• Drive improvements in equipment uptime, availability, and performance.
• Identify and address chronic equipment issues and repeat failures.
• Ensure root cause analysis is performed and corrective actions implemented.
• Support predictive and preventive maintenance strategies.
• Partner with reliability, planning, and operations teams to improve fleet performance.
• Maintain good lines of communication among departments, crews, and other supervisors.
• Ensure direct reports have the training and tools to complete jobs safely and efficiently
• Participate in and support the CARE about safety program.
• Effectively encourage new and innovative ways of thinking
• Set an example, sustain open communications, coach hourly employees and provide training opportunities, set goals, conduct performance evaluations, remedy employee work issues.
• Uphold respectful workplace policies, enforce work rules
• Strengthen and improve safety in the workplace through compliance with rules and regulations, safety, inspections, and training.
• Ensure environmental compliance through proper knowledge and enforcement of procedures and requirements.
• Maintain good housekeeping standards and expectations
• Supervise operating, maintenance, and troubleshooting processes.
• Communicate precise processes and procedures to direct reports.
• Attend in house and outside technical and supervisory seminars and training session
• Troubleshoot, monitor, maintain equipment.
• Complete reports and inspections as required

Typical Education High school diploma or general education degree (GED) Relevant Experience Two plus years related experience and/or training. Progressive experience in an industrial environment. Prior supervisory experience desirable Combination of education, training and/or experience will be considered for this position

Other Information Progressive experience in an industrial environment. Prior supervisory experience desirable.