Supervisor Operations and Maintenance

Over 90 years of quality products and superior service.

The Operations and Maintenance Supervisor will help manage the site operations and repair, alteration and preventative maintenance of the plant to improve the productivity of the operation. He/She will supervise both production operators and maintenance technicians in order to get sustainably meet sales and commercial needs completed in an efficient and effective manner. In conjunction with the site manager, is responsible for balancing priorities, manpower, material, and equipment availability to develop department and individual work schedules.

Is responsible for safety, quality of work, and productivity of the workforce through direct leadership and coordination with the sales department in a highly involved work place.

• Supervise all hourly production staff to ensure all orders are met.
• Supervise maintenance technicians and work performed by contractors.
• Manage planned and unplanned maintenance work and jobs for both daily work and maintenance outages.
• Provide on-the-spot, on-the-job equipment-related expertise and technical guidance.
• Enhance communication and coordination between maintenance, operations and sales.
• Effectively manages the utilization of planned maintenance hours to maximize machine line efficiency and production volumes.
• Actively participate in the planning, coordination, and implementation of maintenance activities to ensure they are consistently successfully completed in the allotted time frame while ensuring the work completed allows for excellent machine reliability.
• Follow up on issues that did not go as planned during shutdowns and implement methods to prevent future occurrences.
• Provide a safe work place through adherence to company safety policy, housekeeping and defined standards of training.
• Lead site wide safety meetings.
• Monitor compliance to safety policies and procedures, conduct inspections of plant areas, and ensure deficiencies found are resolved or appropriately communicated.
• Ensure all hourly personnel are well trained, involved, and committed to meeting department expectations including following all safety requirements.
• Provide leadership in department and administrative support required to be an effective supervisor.
• Observe employee work skills and provide on-the-job training, tutoring and coaching.
• Suggest ways to improve methods, procedures and work practices.
• Address performance issues promptly and in a fair and consistent manner and provide effective and timely feedback using the performance evaluation process.
• Schedule work days and off days of employees in conjunction with plant manager, track and approve or deny vacation as well as floating holidays based on work requirements.
• Provide direct input in the hiring of maintenance technicians and assist with interviews for other positions such as engineers.
• Identify continuing or new training requirements for the department.
• Ensure employees are well trained, involved, and committed to meeting department expectations including following all safety requirements.
• Inspect completed work to ensure quality and reduce rework.
• Support department expense target goals by minimizing maintenance costs without negatively impacting operating results.
• Support efforts to minimize cost for major repair items and efforts to minimize purchased maintenance costs by utilizing company personnel for maintenance and capital projects versus using outside contractors whenever possible.
• Evaluate alternative parts or new suppliers to improve costs.
• Identify shop and fabrication work opportunities that can be performed in house versus being completed by outside resources.
• Support efforts for the large capital projects within the plant.
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