Facilities & Maintenance Supervisor

About Kewaunee, an Oshkosh company

Kewaunee Fabrications is a top-quality, heavy fabrication specialist. Since 1941, we've offered turnkey advantages by providing all aspects of heavy fabrications—manufacturing, engineering, cutting, forming, welding, machining, blasting, painting and assembly—under one roof. It's what we do. From start to finish, we offer the single-source advantages of greater control and efficiency, improved accuracy and complete accountability. In 1999, Kewaunee Fabrications joined the Oshkosh family and helps transform tomorrow with their innovative heavy fabrication capabilities.

To supervise and direct the activities of the maintenance team in order to provide the best possible upkeep and repair of all company facilities and equipment. To monitor all maintenance activities to insure that quality work is being conducted in a safe manner and accomplished and a timely fashion.

• Monitor condition of all Company facilities and equipment and make recommendations for its proper upkeep
• Monitor quality of work being performed by Maintenance and Custodial personnel to insure work is being performed in a manner which will protect the Company's assets
• Determine most effective crew size and departmental organization to most efficiently carry out assigned work
• Work closely with all Production manager/supervisors in assessing the adequacy of maintenance support
• Develop appropriate preventive maintenance schedules for all equipment and monitor conformance of personnel to these schedules. Insure the health and safety of all personnel by diligent application of good health and safety rules and practices
• Assist in the planning of scheduled shutdown maintenance, special projects, and facility construction and renovation
• To procure, train, schedule, and supervise the Maintenance and Custodial personnel
• To work closely with Facilities and Manufacturing Engineering in prioritizing and carrying out assigned projects and maintenance work
• Assist Production, Manufacturing Engineering, and Facilities Engineering in the development of capital equipment budgets
• Communicate status of critical production equipment and facilities utilities to Facilities Engineering and management
• Strive to maintain good departmental morale through group and individual communications, and fair and equitable handling of all personnel assignments, discipline and wage issues
• Assist in developing yearly departmental capital and expense account budgets
• Monitor SOP’s set-up by all departments for maximum equipment performance and review downtime records and work orders, thus focusing on problems and recommend corrective action needed
• Review departmental responsibilities vs. skill levels and suggest training requirements for employees
• Maintaining an awareness of new equipment, buildings, various systems, new polices, and management changes
• Ensure proper use of the Confined space and lockout/ tagout programs by maintenance and custodial personnel
• Maintain all the departments purchasing and parts ordering
• Continually look for new energy saving ideas that can be implemented at our company

• High School Diploma or GED with three (3) or more years of manufacturing experience working in a maintenance or facilities department.

• Bachelors degree in operations manager, or similar area.
• Supervisory experience leading teams of 5-15 individuals.
• Experience with preventative maintenance programs.
• Experience with vendor management and project management.
• Ability to plan and organize projects.
• Good communication skills both verbal and written.
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$72,200.00 - $

The above pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target pay for the position across all U.S. locations. Within this range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, education and skills, as well as the equity of pay among team members in similar positions. Beyond offering a competitive total rewards package, we prioritize a people-first culture and offer various opportunities to support team member growth…