Maintenance Supervisor

Maintenance Supervisor

Job Description

Department:
Maintenance

Classification:
To be determined based on assigned duties

Career Level:

Supervisor

Grade:
To be determined

Hourly Equivalent /

Pay Type:

$

Location:

Assigned Company Facility

Reports to:

Maintenance Manager, Plant Manager, or Operations Leader

Scope:
Responsible for frontline maintenance supervision, daily work prioritization, employee coordination, safe-work execution, equipment reliability, contractor and spare-parts coordination, compliance, and continuous improvement in support of safe, reliable manufacturing operations at the assigned facility.

The Maintenance Supervisor directs daily maintenance activities and provides frontline leadership to maintenance employees. The essential function is to assign and coordinate work, enforce safe-work requirements, develop employees, maintain work controls, and support maintenance strategies and resource decisions that protect safety, compliance, equipment availability, product quality, and manufacturing continuity.

• Provide frontline leadership for the plant maintenance function and set daily priorities that protect employee safety, product quality, production continuity, equipment reliability, and lifecycle cost.
• Schedule, assign, and oversee preventive, predictive, corrective, shutdown, facility, utility, and emergency maintenance work based on risk and operational requirements.
• Supervise, train, coach, and evaluate maintenance employees; support staffing, skills development, time and attendance, accountability, and shift coverage.
• Control assigned maintenance spending; coordinate contractors, service agreements, spare parts, warranties, and critical-equipment needs within approved budgets and authority.
• Monitor downtime, PM compliance, backlog, repeat failures, work quality, and maintenance cost; participate in root-cause analysis and ensure corrective actions are completed.
• Coordinate with Engineering and Operations on equipment installation, commissioning, change control, documentation, and maintainability.
• Support compliance with permits, inspections, environmental requirements, electrical and mechanical codes, and company safety programs.
• Enforce lockout/tagout, machine-guarding, electrical-safety, hot-work, confined-space, fall-protection, and other applicable safe-work requirements; stop and report unsafe conditions.
• Direct and, when needed, assist with preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance work to meet established priorities.
• Ensure labor, parts, findings, failure information, and follow-up needs are recorded accurately in the computerized maintenance management system or designated records.
• Coordinate with Production, Engineering, Quality, EHS, Purchasing, and outside service providers to restore and sustain safe equipment operation.
• Maintain orderly tools, work areas, replacement parts, and technical documentation, and support required inspections and audits.
• Perform other related duties consistent with the role, grade, qualifications, and business needs.

• High school diploma or equivalent required; technical certificate, associate degree, apprenticeship, or equivalent advanced industrial maintenance experience preferred.
• Progressive industrial maintenance experience involving production machinery, safe work control, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and cross-functional coordination.
• Demonstrated ability to assign and prioritize work, coordinate downtime response, communicate risk, and maintain accurate records in a CMMS or equivalent system.
• Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, controls, utility, and reliability principles appropriate to the role.
• Prior experience leading or supervising industrial maintenance employees, contractors, shifts, projects, or work assignments required; formal supervisory experience preferred.
• The position’s classification must be validated against its actual primary duty, authority, and exercise of discretion at the assigned site.

• Experience maintaining machinery in wire, cable, metalworking, rope, drawing, stranding, forming, heat-treatment, packaging, or comparable industrial manufacturing.
• Formal training or certification in industrial maintenance, mechatronics, electrical systems, controls, welding, hydraulics, vibration, lubrication, supervision, or reliability appropriate to the role.
• Experience using a CMMS, reading…