Maintenance Supervisor - manufacturing start-up site

Position: Maintenance Supervisor - growing manufacturing start-up site
Location: Lebanon

There is a newly created Maintenance Supervisor role at a growing manufacturing site in Lebanon, KY facility where selected candidate is accountable for maintaining the integrity, reliability, and basic operating condition of all plant assets to ensure safe, compliant, and uninterrupted operation. The role is responsible for maximizing equipment uptime by increasing mean time between failures while minimizing mean time to repair through effective preventive and corrective maintenance strategies.

Using performance data and reliability insights, will drive disciplined maintenance execution and continuous improvement to support stable operations and long-term asset performance. This start up site is with an international and established company. Will supervise 2 people in this role. This position reports to the Site Leader at this location. There are major company benefits with attractive medical, 5% bonus potential, 100% match on the 401k TO 5% and on a discretionary basis there could be up to an additional 5%.

Key Tasks:

Maintenance:

• Ensure Maintenance Plan is in place to meet legal, compliance and output requirements and to protect our assets.

• Triage helpdesk requests and assign resource to ensure reactive maintenance is completed in a timely manner to reduce impact to production.

• Be actively involved in fault diagnosis as well as resolution to minimize reoccurring faults.

• Where required follow Management of Change process to implement robust temporary and permanent solutions.

• Devise and monitor processes for ensuring the defined maintenance plan is adhered to and performance reported on every month.

• Forward plan maintenance activities to ensure adequate resource is in place and that Permit to Works and Risk assessments are completed.

• Be actively involved in plant maintenance when necessary to ensure the safe and efficient return on operation of equipment.

• Ensure that operational plant is maintained to the highest level of safety and environmental standards, with quick response to breakdowns. Implement asset care and condition-based monitoring where appropriate.

• For all scheduled shut down periods ensure comprehensive planning processes are in place to ensure all resources required are available in terms of parts and labor (internal and external). Post shutdown, critically review activities and document findings to drive improvement where necessary and to share best practice with other sites where applicable.

• Ensure appropriate level of spare parts are defined and maintained in stock. Be involved in and maintain FMECA study. Frequently assess and review spare parts for suitability.

• Ensure adequate maintenance logs (including downtime reporting) to allow timely and accurate data collection allowing data led decision making.

• Ensure completion of all PPMs by maintenance technicians as per requirements. Carry out analysis of equipment failures to identify trends.

• Develop Service Level Agreements with the Site Leader and ensure regular assessment and revision of supplier/service contract performance.

• Work with Site Leader and Accounting to manage spend against budget.

With the Site Leader, develop a long-range service plan that align with distillery shutdowns and provide costings to enable accurate budgeting.

• Develop and manage the site Inventory System to ensure alignment with site stock and feedback consumption of critical spares to the finance team.

Compliance:
Safety, Health, Environment & Quality:

• Leading by example, promote a culture within your team where safe working practices are strictly followed to ensure compliance with all legal and internal requirements.
• Support Site Leader with the implementation of Company-wide safety recommendations across the site to drive a culture within the site of 'Don't Walk By' (DWB), Work Safe/Home Safe.
• Document and maintain Standard Operating Procedures and Risk Assessments for all key tasks and by auditing be confident these are being followed to ensure safe systems of work.
• Actively encourage the reporting of unsafe acts and conditions for all personnel and visitors on site.
• Ensure completion of Safety and Environmental pre-startup tasks.
• Plan and manage contractors on site to ensure safe systems of work are adhered to.
• Assist with third party audits as required.

People Leadership & Development:

• Plan and schedule appropriate manpower to support 24/7/365 operation of the site.
• Ensure that the maintenance team are trained and competent to carry out their roles & tasks.
• Identify and ensure completion of required training & development where needed, at the appropriate level, ensuring training records are maintained.

• Develop and implement training plan for new maintenance technicians. Actively assist where required with training of new employees.

• Ensure the site maintenance team are supplied with necessary resources to complete their role safely.

• Lead and manage direct reports, ensuring people development plans are in place and completed as per Company process.

• Ensure good or exceptional performance…