Maintenance Supervisor

Maintenance Supervisor

Wausau, WI ( • Manufacturing

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Ready for more than just a job? Build a career with purpose.

At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity.We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From yourPASSIONto ours

The Maintenance Supervisor oversees daily maintenance activities and provides hands-on leadership to maintenance team members across assigned shifts. This role supports safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations by prioritizing work, coaching employees, coordinating with production and support departments, and ensuring maintenance activities align with company safety, quality, food safety, and operational standards.

From yourEXPERTISEto our

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Supervise daily maintenance activities across assigned shifts to ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, and in support of production needs.

• Provide day-to-day direction, coaching, and support to maintenance mechanics and leads, including work assignments, priorities, follow-up, and accountability.

• Ensure maintenance employees are trained and following safe work practices, food safety requirements, environmental procedures, and company policies.

• Support preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance activities by monitoring work order completion, PM compliance, equipment issues, and follow-up actions.

• Coordinate maintenance support for production to minimize downtime, improve equipment reliability, and help ensure quality food products are produced.

• Work with Maintenance Planners, Maintenance Leads, Production, Quality, Safety, and Engineering to prioritize work based on safety, food safety, production impact, and equipment reliability.

• Monitor equipment performance, recurring breakdowns, and maintenance trends; assist with identifying root causes and implementing practical corrective actions.

• Support continuous improvement efforts by encouraging team input, following up on improvement ideas, and helping implement changes that improve safety, reliability, efficiency, and cost control.

• Help ensure mechanics and maintenance leads have the tools, parts, training, and support needed to complete assigned work effectively.

• Assist with monitoring maintenance labor, MRO usage, spare parts availability, and stockroom practices to support responsible use of resources.

• Provide support for capital projects, equipment upgrades, startups, and plant initiatives as assigned, including feedback, coordination of maintenance labor, and startup support.

• Support utility reduction, equipment efficiency, and conservation initiatives by identifying opportunities and assisting with implementation.

• Ensure facility systems such as alarms, security, sprinklers, fire protection, and related conservation systems are maintained and escalated as needed.

• Maintain compliance with federal, state, local, and company regulatory requirements, including applicable PSM, HAZMAT, environmental, safety, and food safety standards.

• Communicate shift updates, equipment concerns, work priorities, and follow-up items clearly to maintenance leadership and cross-functional partners.

Requirements

From yourSTORYto ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Education

• A bachelor's degree is preferred.

Experience

• 3+ years of maintenance supervisor experience is preferred.

• Food industry experience is preferred

• Knowledge of Packaging Lines and dryers is preferred.

Certificationsand specific knowledge

• Requires intermediate computer skills using Microsoft Office

• SAP and AutoCAD is preferred.

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities. Further, any division of the Company that is an Affirmative Action Employer will comply with all related legal obligations.