Maintenance Supervisor

Our client, utomotive Manufacturing company, is looking for a Maintenance Supervisor for their Bedford, IN location.


Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of skilled trades to safely maintain casting and machining equipment while meeting daily production, quality, and uptime targets.
• Own the Workplace Safety System for the area: ensure high-risk tasks are controlled, employee safety concerns (ESCs) are reported, closed on time, and feedback is provided to employees.
• Sustain Workplace Organization (WPO) standards and 5S: complete and review WPO audits, correct out-of-standard conditions, and drive a clean, organized maintenance work environment.
• Own Level 4/5 Business Plan Deployment (BPD) boards for the maintenance group: keep SPQRCE metrics current, write and follow up on countermeasures for red metrics, and lead regular board reviews with TLs and support staff.
• Lead problem solving using company's PPS and tools; use Andon/MTB/Maximo data to identify chronic issues, drive root-cause analysis, and verify effectiveness of implemented countermeasures.
• Plan and prioritize preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance using Maximo; coordinate opportunistic downtime with production to execute planned work and minimize unplanned stops.
• Ensure technical standardized work is in place and followed (GL STS, TIS/JES, PMP, TPM tasks); keep daily/weekly/monthly/yearly GL tasks up to date and audited.
• Verify training and qualification of trades and TLs through JIT and versatility/flex charts; perform monthly JIT checks and close training gaps.
• Protect product quality by ensuring proper handling of non-conforming material, adherence to PQS, support of error-proofing verification, and escalation of quality issues from maintenance activities.
• Manage spare parts and indirect materials processes (cribs, POU cabinets, min/max and FIFO) to support high equipment reliability at lowest total cost.
• Conduct performance evaluations, coaching, and recognition for team members; address low performance, support development plans, and reinforce company's Purpose & Values and the Bedford mission "Together We Cast Our Future."
• Effectively use company's systems (Maximo, Kronos, Cognos, Intelex, Teamcenter, SharePoint) and plant procedures (Go & See, incident investigation, Supervisor Handbook) to manage work, time, safety, and reporting.

• Education: High School Diploma required
• Years of experience: at least 5 years of experience required
• Industrial or manufacturing environment - experience working in this environment
• Mechanical Altitude or background
• At least 5 years of leadership experience
• Soft skills - Not afraid of confrontation, capable of managing people, safety is very important (aware and have a good knowledge of safety)
• Industrial or manufacturing environment experience
• Mechanical Altitude background/experience
• Important Someone that has some discipline and consistency - showing up to work on time and be ready to work, this is a current struggle in their department so need to make sure this is not an issue, this person needs to be reliable and dependable

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities