Maintenance Supervisor

Position Summary

As the Maintenance Supervisor you will be responsible for all maintenance functions necessary to ensure efficient plant operations: manufacturing, processing, packaging and associated utilities. Maintenance Supervisor also provides mentorship and skill development to the Maintenance and Operations teams in loss elimination, risk management and life cycle asset management to sustain a proactive - planned maintenance program. Other responsibilities include training, mentoring and assessing mechanics on maintenance & engineering related elements of Nestlé Continuous Excellence (NCE) using TPM as the multi-disciplined approach to establish “Continuous Improvement and Zero Loss” culture, in addition to supervision and regulatory compliance of the environmental program.

Monday-Friday, 2pm - 10:30pm (hours flexible based on business needs)

• Guide the factory to reduce technical stoppages in equipment or areas of common occurrence (priority given to areas of highest incidence or impact). Ensure the detailed review all line, processes, and utilities that are essential to the business and those where failure can have an unacceptable impact on safety, personnel safety, food safety, environment, or compliance with the law.
• Monitor plant/equipment trends to ensure highest possible operation and reduction of planned/unplanned downtime.
• Propose and monitor key performance indicators in accordance with the Best Maintenance Practices.
• Facilitate the evolution/refinement of maintenance activities to minimize planned and unplanned downtime (PM’s, changeovers, etc.).
• Maintain processing and packaging equipment and systems, decreasing unplanned downtime and growing reliability and availability.
• Implement all repairs/modifications resulting from Gap assessments, plant audits (Maintenance, Food Safety, Safety Audits), and notifications are executed on time and offer a high quality workmanship.
• Own the job planning, and validate all material and services planning for accuracy and efficiency.
• Lead the documentation for equipment history, damage code and root cause analysis are completed accurately.
• Develop and lead a team maintenance/electrical and automation technicians to develop them as Factory SME’s (subject matter experts). Train and guide them in the implementation and leadership of the NCE Reliability program in the factories.
• Evaluate the performance of team members and provide periodic feedback to ensure development.
• Share other maintenance-related standard methodologies across all Nestlé factories, via the corporate engineering website, leadership/training guides, etc.
• Collaborate with corporate engineers, suppliers, contractors, and plant partners to ensure customer needs are met.
• Encourage close partnership between all functions (Maintenance, Engineering, Production, Quality Management, etc.).
• Conduct regular inspections of plant to seek out potential problems and to solicit operator feedback.
• Consolidate and analyze the factory maintenance budget, drive valuable and sustainable improvements with the assistance of Nestle Group Engineering Specialists and Maintenance Manager.
• Support the technical stores, systems and processes, oversee the scheduled Work Orders execution, labor hour allocation and prioritization of the equipment Bill of Material (BOM) review process.
• Support and back-fill the rollout and sustainability of TPM-PM Pillar across the factory.
• Assure compliance with government regulatory requirements.
• Other duties as assigned.

• 3-5 years of experience as a maintenance technician in a manufacturing environment and knowledge of production equipment maintenance, required.
• Minimum of 1-3 years of direct experience in supervision/management/lead of mechanics for the maintenance of equipment, preferred.
• Previous experience as a maintenance specialist within a food manufacturing facility, preferred.
• Some knowledge of utilities and facility process and packaging equipment, preferred.

• Strong technical and leadership skills:
  Ability to lead, motivate and develop others; able to prioritize, coordinate, and direct users, teams and…