Maintenance Supervisor

About Adams Group

Adams Group is a fifth-generation, family-owned specialty food company built on over 110 years of a simple but powerful belief: good food starts with good people. Founded on the principle of doing the right thing, we've grown to become the most trusted provider of high-quality specialty grains, oils, and seeds-delivering quality ingredients from seed to shelf.


Rooted in trusted farmer partnerships and vertically integrated operations, we combine agricultural expertise with intentional innovation to deliver specialty at scale. Our commitment to quality, sustainability, and integrity isn't just what we do-it's who we are.


Our Legacy of Innovation

While we stay true to our values, our success across five generations comes from our entrepreneurial spirit and ability to adapt to the needs of a changing food landscape. Embodying the spirit of California, we push boundaries, pioneer new standards, and create better-for-all alternatives that nourish people from infancy to adulthood.


More Than a Job-A Purpose

At Adams Group, we offer more than careers; we offer the opportunity to be part of something meaningful. Whether you're producing high-quality ingredients, supporting sustainable practices, or building trusted relationships across our global network, your work helps nourish lives and communities across generations.


We care deeply for our people, build strong relationships with our partners, deliver consistently for our customers, and enrich the communities we serve. Together, we're elevating industry standards and making a lasting impact on the world.


Join Our Story

Come be part of a legacy where good starts with you. At Adams Group, you don't just have a career-you have a legacy.


Our Core Values

At Adams Group, we live by five core values that guide everything we do:

• Quality in all we do
• Doing the right thing
• Building relationships for shared success
• Adapting to change
• Leaving the world better than we found it

Position Summary:

Maintain systems and equipment by overseeing/completing preventive maintenance, restoring, repairing, rebuilding, or directing the work effort for replacing faulty or inoperative components and parts. Be proactive in matters that require attention and report the issues to management to reduce unscheduled down time. Assist in the coaching and development of maintenance team members. The Maintenance Supervisor is a "hands-on", working position. The Maintenance Supervisor is a member of the maintenance team reporting directly to the Maintenance Manager/Plant Manager.


Key Responsibilities:

• Assist Maintenance Manager with daily oversight of maintenance crew work efforts.
• Perform regular reviews of the AVO CMMS to assist in determining priorities with the scheduler/planner.
• Enforce the culture of "completing repairs correctly, the first time".
• Ensure priorities are communicated to the maintenance crew.
• Regularly inspect machinery with respect to safety issues.
• Ensure work assigned to the maintenance crew is completed in a timely manner.
• Identify team members that need additional skills training.
• Assist with the coaching and developing members of the maintenance team.
• Ensure compliance with company safety and security standards, procedures and policies.
• Ensure maintenance personnel wear and utilize all safety equipment/P.P.E. correctly as needed.
• Communicate with management, at any hour, during emergency situations.
• Participate in all audits as needed, ensuring all areas are audit-ready at all times.
• Ensure maintenance is performed in accordance with approved procedures and company policy
• Follow and verify lock out/tag out rules and policies are strictly adhered.
• Assist with maintaining adequate inventories of tools, supplies and parts to acutely repair all equipment.
• Review daily Maintenance Agenda during the morning maintenance meeting.
• Ensure the cleanliness of the shop and storage areas.
• Other duties as directed or required.

Required Qualifications:

Education and Experience

• 5+ years of progressive maintenance leadership experience in food, beverage, or CPG manufacturing
• Strong experience with CMMS systems, maintenance planning, and reliability programs (TPM, RCM, or similar)
• Demonstrated knowledge of PLCs, VFDs, and industrial electrical/control systems
• Experience with mechanical systems including motors, drives, pumps, conveyors, and power transmission
• Working knowledge of utility systems including steam, compressed air, and refrigeration
• Familiarity with food safety and regulatory standards (HACCP, GMPs, SQF/BRC/FSSC)
• Proven ability to analyze data and drive performance improvements through KPIs
• Strong leadership, communication, and team development skills
• Intermediate to advanced computer skills

Skills and Competencies:

• Strong skills in leadership and team building
• Intermediate to advanced computer skills
• Strong knowledge of VFD's and PLCs controls
• Highly motivated and self-directed
• Attention to Detail
• Communication
• Time Management
• Problem solving
• Ability to work under pressure
• Demonstrated Knowledge of Preventive Maintenance

Preferred Qualifications:

• PLCs controls I/O
• VFD parameters
• Food Safety SQF
• Strong Knowledge of building systems (electrical, HVAC, etc.)
• Understanding of budgeting and performance management

Working Conditions:

• Ability to climb stairs and ladders and work in industrial environments
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds on a regular basis
• Ability to work in varying environmental conditions within a manufacturing setting
• Willingness to work extended hours, weekends, and holidays as needed
• Up to 15% travel to external sites and equipment/service suppliers
• Ability to oversee maintenance operations and supply room activities across all shifts

Food Safety Policy:

Adams Group is committed to producing and distributing high quality products through adherence to industry and regulatory standards. As an Adams Group employee, you will be trained on our food safety policies and will be held accountable to adhering to them. You will be encouraged and required to notify supervision about actual or potential food safety issues. Everyone at Adams is involved in delivering safe food - within your scope of work you will be empowered to act to resolve food safety issues.


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