Maintenance Supervisor

Maintenance Supervisor – Wilson

At Sibelco, we advance life through materials. With over 150 years of experience, we supply specialty industrial minerals across glass, ceramics, construction, coatings, polymers, and water purification. We are committed to sustainability, innovation, and empowering people to thrive.

Location:

Wilson

We’re looking for a hands‑on Industrial Maintenance Supervisor who thrives in a fast‑paced environment and can lead teams, solve problems, and keep operations running at peak performance. In a 24/7 production environment, the Supervisor will coordinate daily maintenance activities ensuring service levels, optimizing machine availability, and driving safety and continuous improvement.

• Troubleshoot complex mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and conveyor systems.
• Ensure maintenance work orders are accurate, prioritised, and properly closed in SAP.
• Manage the plant preventive maintenance programme.
• Act as hands‑on lead mechanic to troubleshoot and repair equipment.
• Perform basic electrical troubleshooting skills.
• Train plant personnel to perform basic maintenance.
• Conduct periodic preventive maintenance checks as required.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead and coordinate internal technicians and third‑party contractors.
• Plan, schedule, and execute preventive and corrective maintenance.
• Support critical or high‑impact maintenance activities.
• Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to reduce downtime and improve efficiency.
• Enforce Sibelco’s safety standards and lifesaving rules.
• Lead safe work practices including LOTO, LMRA, and SOP compliance.

• Coordinate and supervise internal and external technicians with the maintenance activities on site.
• Support the planner in the preparation of the maintenance activities.
• Provide proactive support in case of difficult activities and/or problems.
• Follow up maintenance activities and adjust where necessary.
• Coordinate third‑party services according to Sibelco technical and safety standards.
• Create correct maintenance work orders according to Sibelco rules and standards.
• Follow up and execute maintenance plan for preventive and corrective maintenance tasks.
• Perform gatekeeping on maintenance notifications and manage them with the correct priority.
• Review maintenance jobs and close the work orders with correct aftercare.
• Continuously communicate with production operators, supervisors and engineers to ensure maintenance activities are performed according to planning.
• Coordinate and support emergency regime.
• Actively participate in the daily performance dialogue and problem solving events.
• Execute maintenance activities in the site according to Sibelco’s operational excellence and safety principles to contribute to the Sibelco’s continuous improvement culture.
• Maintain, improve or expand technical installations to prevent failures and breakdowns and to optimise availability and capacity.
• Repair mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and/or hydraulic malfunctions.
• Implement execution of maintenance plan by Sibelco systems and standards.
• Register and control information in the system to analyse and meet predefined KPIs.
• Promote performance dialogue in the team (using the appropriate KPIs).
• Ensure contractors meet SLA’s and KPI’s and manage co‑employment issues.
• Execute and support RCA to analyse and minimise machine downtime.
• Organise and follow up maintenance activities and procedures to apply 5S on site.
• Drive and execute maintenance process improvements through a robust performance review and feedback loop to planner, scheduler and reliability engineer.
• Identify and repair or replace ‘problem equipment’ in collaboration with production and reliability engineer.
• Use problem‑solving techniques to eliminate breakdowns.
• Perform LMRA and ensure the maintenance team performs activities safely and healthily according to Sibelco lifesaving rules.
• Execute process confirmations on use of safety procedures and measurements such as LOTO, LMRA, SOP’s.
• Organise or support safety improvements in collaboration with other departments or safety teams.
• Motivate and evaluate team members to enhance collaboration and…