Glassmaking SMET - Section Supervisor

Scope Of Position

Lead Fiber making Maintenance Team of up to 45 Technicians in a fast paced, plant bottleneck area.

Collaborating between Maintenance supervisors, establish organizational design and staffing capabilities to develop high performing teams to maximize capability and equipment uptime. Direct responsibility for process, equipment, and personnel development to increase troubleshooting capability and effectiveness. Direct and indirect responsibility for development and introduction of new technology and improved equipment reliability in the Optical Fiber Production area of the Plant.

• Develop a Safety Culture that seeks injury elimination through proactive solution deployment.
• Proactively monitor, maintain, and effectively accelerate troubleshooting needs for process equipment to maximize product quality, equipment uptime, and plant throughput.
• Identify key downtime drivers and implement projects to reduce event occurrence and duration.
• Collaborate between Maintenance Supervisors to allocate resources for identifying, investigating, and mitigating key selects drivers of short-term and chronic performance impacts.
• Champion Troubleshooting & Repair and PM effectiveness through partnership with Day MET, Reliability, and Engineering community to increase troubleshooting knowledge and effectiveness.
• Ensure team logs all Troubleshooting and Repair activities into plant CMMS system and manage escalation of issues to additional technical groups. Assist with WO management process.
• Responsible for management and forecasting Repair & Maintenance spend for the Fiber making Production Community. Collaborate with GSM for spare parts management and part usage needs forecasting and/or with Engineering for part obsolescence management.
• Provide input into the management and forecasting of Supplies & Equipment spend for the Fiber making production community, and lead project efforts to maximize cost reduction.
• Track and ensure availability of key repairable process equipment.
• Coordinate training and certification of new personnel and re-training, cross-training, and certification of existing personnel. Identify additional training needs and collaborate between maintenance supervisors to develop training to meet department standards for mechanical and electrical technicians.
• Actively participate in new technology receivership, ensuring process and equipment meet standards of 24/7 manufacturing.
• Maintain adherence to troubleshooting checklists and procedures and provide redline improvements when discrepancies or opportunities are identified.

Infrequent US travel (