Maintenance Supervisor, Day Shift

Title: Maintenance Supervisor, Day Shift, 1st Shift

Req : 8785

City, State: Hartwell, GA

Reports to: Maintenance Manager

Classification: Exempt

The Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for the effective utilization of the team to address plant process, equipment, and facility upkeep. With a “One Team, One Mission” approach, this position collaborates across shifts and with multiple departments (Production, Utilities, Planning, Safety) to support consistent production, minimize downtime, and enforce HACCP, USDA, and food safety protocol, all while providing continued growth opportunities to our team members.

• Supervises the activities of Maintenance Techs and Apprentices, to track completion of work orders, planned repairs/projects, and preventative maintenance. Includes administration of scheduling, time and attendance, performance feedback and follow-up to ensure optimal job performance.
• Ensures quick and effective response to line breakdowns. Investigates and completes failure analysis on work order challenges and works through appropriate actions with teams to prevent future breakdowns.
• Communicates with Supervisors across shifts, and other departments regularly to coordinate maintenance activities with production schedules, providing breakdown and equipment repair status reports.
• Provide a safe environment for continued growth. Ensuring teamwork/cooperation among employees. Effectively resolving issues, problems, and complaints. Maintaining successful personal development through training opportunities. Maximizing team member job performance while maintaining safety procedures and policies.

• A bachelor’s degree in Engineering with a prior Engineering/Maintenance internship OR an Industrial Mechanics’ degree/equivalent technical diploma and five years plant maintenance experience OR seven plus years’ experience in an Industrial Mechanics/related position.
• Strong interpersonal skills, to include professional oral and written communication, a team focused approach, and the ability to model composure/make decisions in stressful situations.

• Experience in food manufacturing facilities (esp. poultry)
• Regulatory compliance knowledge, including USDA regulations, HACCP, GMP and Food Safety (SQF)
• Strong computerized maintenance management system knowledge
• Bilingual (English/Spanish)

This position will be responsible for supervising Maintenance / Electrical team members at the Hartwell facility.

Wide variations in environment temperature (-10 freezer, 32-degree coolers, 40-degree plant, wet cold environment) dust, noise, slippery floors and moving equipment; wearing appropriate PPE is required.

Position will include extensive standing, sitting, lifting, climbing ladders, wearing factory required equipment while working in production, walking, visual, responding quickly to sounds and driving.

This is an exempt role; may be asked to change schedule and work ‘off’-shifts.

Some travel may be required in this position to assist in other facilities. (Less than 5%)

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

With base salary and bonus, total compensation for this position has the potential to exceed $100K.

Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test and background check are required.

Brakebush provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States. We are currently unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of employment visas.

Brakebush is committed to adhering to compliance and applicable pay transparency laws in all states where we operate and any other states where we have a legal obligation.

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Management and Manufacturing

Food and Beverage Manufacturing