Maintenance Supervisor Indianapolis

The Opportunity:

The Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for the safe, disciplined, and effective execution of maintenance activities to support plant reliability, safety, and production performance. This role owns day-to-day maintenance execution, technician leadership, and schedule adherence, ensuring work is completed as planned and standards are consistently enforced.

The Maintenance Supervisor serves as the primary execution link between Maintenance Planning, Reliability, and Operations. The role is critical in stabilizing a reactive maintenance environment by reducing emergency work, improving work order quality, developing technician capability, and restoring confidence in the maintenance system.

Any MLF team member interested in being considered for this role are encouraged to apply online by February 23. Applications received beyond that date are not guaranteed consideration.

Compensation: $61,000 – $91,000 USD base pay annually plus annual short-term incentive

1. Safety, Environmental & Regulatory Compliance

• Enforce all safety standards including LOTO, confined space, hot work, and permit-to-work requirements.
• Exercise stop-work authority for unsafe conditions or behaviors.
• Ensure maintenance work complies with environmental and wastewater requirements and elevate abnormal conditions immediately.
• Hold technicians accountable for housekeeping and job-site restoration as part of every task.

2. Work Execution & Schedule Discipline

• Own execution of the published weekly maintenance schedule and drive >90% schedule compliance.
• Control and challenge break-in and emergency work; ensure true emergencies are clearly defined and documented.
• Lead daily maintenance execution meetings and shift handovers.
• Monitor work order progress multiple times per shift and actively remove barriers to completion.
• Escalate systemic schedule disruptions to Maintenance Management and Operations.

3. Backlog & Work Order Management

• Actively manage maintenance backlog health, aging, and prioritization.
• Ensure all work orders meet CMMS quality standards including labor hours, failure codes, comments, and completion status.
• Verify accuracy and completeness of work orders before returning them to Planning.
• Review job delays and variance between planned vs. actual labor to identify improvement opportunities.

4. Technician Leadership & Capability Development

• Assign work based on demonstrated competency, not availability.
• Hold technicians accountable for work quality, documentation, safety compliance, and standard work.
• Conduct regular skills assessments against the skills matrix and implement corrective training plans.
• Remove technicians from complex or critical work when competency gaps are identified.
• Lead mentoring and apprentice development programs.

5. Planning & Reliability Interface

• Ensure planned jobs are executed as written and provide structured feedback to Planning for job plan improvement.
• Verify tools, parts, kits, and materials are staged and ready prior to job execution.
• Partner with Reliability by providing high-quality execution feedback, failure observations, and data to support Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) and PM optimization.
• Ensure defective parts and assemblies are routed for repair or rebuild promptly.

6. Asset Performance & Continuous Improvement

• Support Preventive and Predictive Maintenance execution and compliance.
• Participate in Root Cause Failure Analysis for major or chronic failures as required.
• Track and improve maintenance execution KPIs including schedule compliance, PM completion, emergency work percentage, and value-added maintenance work.
• Ensure maintenance standardization and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Schedule compliance
• PM completion rate
• Emergency / break-in work percentage
• Quality and timeliness of CMMS feedback
• Maintenance safety and environmental performance
• Technician skill progression and engagement

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Maintenance Technology or related field or 5–10 years of progressive industrial maintenance supervisory experience.
• Proven success stabilizing high-reactive maintenance environments.
• Strong leadership…