Electrical Supervisor

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The Electrical Supervisor provides direction, coordination, and support for the daily execution of the electrical crew’s operating plan. Working with the Maintenance Manager, Maintenance Engineer, Planner, Maintenance Technicians, Operations, and Safety, the Electrical Supervisor drives department productivity and quality of workmanship for the purpose of increasing overall availability and reliability of equipment. As a leader of the Maintenance Department, the Electrical Supervisor reports to the Maintenance Manager.

Implements strategic vision for maintenance and reliability to correct, coordinate, and support plant maintenance functions by: (65%)

• Developing and implementing plans to reduce breakdowns, improve planned maintenance, optimize scheduled maintenance, and effectively execute down-day events;
• Maintaining the facility in a safe manner and to a standard level of equipment availability;
• Reviewing and observing the work of the maintenance employees and directing development/training requirements;
• Managing all maintenance wash up days;
• Participating in the wash up day planning, half-time, and follow-up meetings;
• Incorporating plant delay items into weekly wash ups;
• Maintaining close contact with Maintenance Manager to ensure maintenance activities occur with minimal disruption to production operations;
• Driving the analysis of all electrical down time incidents to root cause;
• Communicating individual, department, plant, and corporate performance to the electrical maintenance technicians;
• Recommending and implementing improvement in maintenance and operational procedures;
• Touring the plant to interact with production, quality, safety, and maintenance to help drive cultural change and to ensure appropriate work is being performed and customer’s needs are being met;
• Participating in the maintenance and plant safety activities;
• Driving divisional and department KPI’s;
• Developing and promoting the use of the Company’s computer maintenance management system (CMMS) for equipment maintenance and reliability management;
• Participating in down day planning, time to efficiency (TTE), backlog and other items as required;
• Working with the Maintenance Planner to establish maintenance procedures in the CMMS;
• Developing and leading projects to eliminate maintainability problems in the electrical department; and
• Interfacing with mechanical, production, and other departments to facilitate the most effective maintenance solutions to avoid scheduling and delay issues.

Provides leadership to the Electrical Technicians by driving the development, implementation, and sustainability of a predictive and preventative maintenance system by: (25%)

• Performing and maintaining the work flow process (work identification, planning, scheduling, execution, and auditing);
• Leading the continual improvement and integration of the CMMS into the maintenance and production work system;
• Capturing and recording necessary equipment and material history;
• Reviewing previous days work packages to check for…