Maintenance Supervisor

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Vicksburg Forest Products is now seeking applications for Maintenance Supervisor. Previous maintenance experience is required, including but not limited to: millwright, welding and electrical. This role is 1st shift Monday-Friday.

• Foster a safe work environment, ensure maintenance personnel are practicing "best safe work practices", lead the identification and mitigation of all work hazards for the jobs performed prior to work commencing.
• Assist in promoting a continuous improvement culture through communication and coaching employees as well as finding opportunities for streamlining production activities and enhancing value-added processes.
• Develop, implement and maintain maintenance team schedules and detailed maintenance planning schedules that drive continuous improvement and support all elements of plant mechanical/electrical functions.
• Responsible for cost control and benchmarking, planning, scheduling and other high-level managerial tasks.
• Takes measures to proactively address all concerns.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and training by leading manufacturing principles and events with supervision.
• Ensure quality standards and order specifications are met throughout the manufacturing process of the wide range of products.
• Other duties as needed.

• Minimum five (5) years of experience in a maintenance management level role in an industrial or manufacturing environment with a demonstrated ability in safely delivering operational excellence.
• Demonstrated experience in safely leading manufacturing processes, predictive and preventative maintenance, productivity, and/or cost process improvements.
• Excellent team-building and motivational skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Previous wood products manufacturing management experience.
• Lean manufacturing/5S experience is a plus.

• Must be able to tolerate extreme hot, humid, cold, and outdoor conditions. Comfortable working in a loud environment, around moving machinery, with vibrations and airborne particles (sawdust).

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Management and Manufacturing
• Paper and Forest Product Manufacturing

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