The Maintenance Supervisor oversees and improves maintenance processes in a manufacturing environment, focusing on reliability, safety, and efficiency to support sustainable wood bioenergy production.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and implement maintenance methods to reduce downtime, minimize costs, and optimize technician and asset utilization
Partner with manufacturing teams to meet production targets and quality standards
Provide technical expertise to improve equipment reliability and increase MTBF
Coordinate training for maintenance staff, operators, and team leaders
Support TPM pillars to enhance Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and implement reliable maintenance processes
Manage spare parts inventories, equipment modifications, and maintenance procedures
Lead equipment changes, root cause analysis, and risk assessments to reduce breakdowns
Maintain an integrated maintenance master plan aligned with business goals
Coordinate support services such as machining, welding, electrical, and contracted services
Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory requirements
Requirements
Degree in electrical or mechanical engineering is preferred
Five years of supervisory experience, delivering reliability improvements in a fast changing manufacturing environment
Must have experience managing maintenance teams and supporting autonomous manufacturing teams as they deliver continuous improvements
Must have applied working knowledge of time, condition and predictive based maintenance processes
Must have experience managing Preventative Maintenance (P.M.) practices
Proven track record coaching, mentoring, motivating and managing employees skills development
Demonstrated experience proactively leading and coaching teams to solve problems, utilizing automatic line monitoring and other reliability improvement processes
Experience setting business targets to drive and sustain continuous loss reductions
Must be able to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees
Willing and able to work in a hot, humid, cold and noisy industrial environment
Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment
Willing and able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing and/or pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day
Willing and able to work around moving equipment and machinery
Willing and able to pull and lift up to 50 lbs.
Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range not specified
Work schedule includes outdoor work, with potential for long shifts up to 12 hours
Work environment includes outdoor, hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial conditions
Willingness to work outside, lift up to 50 lbs, and perform physically demanding tasks
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