Maintenance Supervisor

Overview

Join a team that nourishes life from farm to table! Upstate Niagara Cooperative, proudly owned by 200+ local family farms, is one of America’s largest and most stable dairy cooperatives. Guided by farmer- and employee-led values, we process and market high-quality milk, yogurt, dips, sour cream, cottage cheese, and more under our trusted brands:
Upstate Farms®, Bison®, Milk for Life®, and Intense Milk®. Here, you’ll support sustainable farming, strong communities, and the mission to deliver fresh, local dairy to families every day.

We are currently seeking Maintenance Supervisors for the afternoon and overnight shift. Must have weekend and holiday availability.

• Responsible for the Maintenance Manager position in their absence.
• Carry out the departmental production plans and to jointly establish objectives.
• First responder to troubleshooting activities, leading and assigning crew members and utilizing all available resources to correct maintenance issues and/or equipment/system breakdowns in an expedient manner.
• Responsible for assessing maintenance impact online performance with respect to improving uptime, cost reduction, maintenance labor allocation and line output focusing on product quality.
• Communicate daily activity of work order status with Production Supervisors and coordinate shift-to-shift handoff.
• Document all modifications to equipment, systems and respective documentation.
• Responsible for the execution of the Shift Plan for planned work orders, predictive/preventative maintenance, on-the-floor training and assisting in the planning for the follow-on shifts.
• Understand and promote food quality, personal safety, good manufacturing practices, production standards and maintenance mechanical/electrical/PLC standards.
• Provide leadership to employees to achieve departmental objectives, while following Standard Operating Procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices, Safe Work Practices, Standard Sanitation and Security Procedures along with established SQF & HACCP practices to ensure consistent high-quality products and a safe work environment.
• Meet all operation requirements. Follow-up with employees to investigate all variances. Keep all supervisory staff informed of lost time to ensure adequate time for scheduled adjustments.
• Report to the Manager on all operation issues during the shift, or as they become available. Investigate all events and provide full details of facts leading to the event, along with conclusions, and recommendations. Communicate openly to all other O-AT-KA Supervisor/Management staff, sharing problems and solutions.
• Ensure that all areas of responsibility are fully staffed. Ensure that all employees are fully trained on equipment, regulatory requirements, safety and sanitation of the rooms and equipment, troubleshooting, etc.
• Develop, upgrade and maintain SOPs for all processes within the department. Ensure that all employees are fully aware of these SOPs and able to carry out their responsibilities.
• Partner with Production, Quality Assurance and R&D to maintain an ongoing uninterrupted operation to produce high quality products, while maintaining the department in an acceptable manner. Lead Preventative Maintenance programs and Quality programs for areas.
• Supervise employees within a union environment. Administer O-AT-KA policies & practices in a timely and equitable manner, to maintain a safe, healthy, efficient, and harmonious work environment.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree (B.A. or B.S.) from a four-year College or University, or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of two (2) years supervisory experience, with proven ability in planning, organizing, motivation, controlling and leadership.

• Dairy and/or food processing knowledge, especially Mixing & Blending, Retort operations, automatic packaging, mechanics of systems and equipment and sanitation and safety.
• Use of high volume highly automated processing equipment.

The Maintenance Supervisor is exposed to O-AT-KA customer and product…