Maintenance Supervisor, 1st shift
Job in
Wharton, Morris County, New Jersey, 07885, USA
Listed on 2026-06-18
Listing for:
DBA-Verwaltungs-Gmbh
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-06-18
Job specializations:
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Maintenance/Cleaning
Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Facility Maintenance, Maintenance Manager
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Salary range: $90k - $110k (may vary based on relevant experience and education)
Cell Phone Allowance: $31.75 per month Shift: 1st shift, 5:30am - 3:30pm (hours may vary based on production needs, schedule would alternate weekends)
The Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for providing leadership for the engineering and maintenance functions and ensuring proper preventive maintenance of physical plant and all operating equipment, electrical troubleshooting, minimizing equipment downtime to provide maximum production capacity, and compliance with all OSHA regulations. Additionally, this position manages the staff to keep function within budget and properly staffed and trained.
Responsibilities and Duties- Maintains daily work log documenting the salient equipment/process incidents requiring follow-up actions.
- Participates in, and supports, the department safety training program. (I.E.: weekly safety meetings, shop safety inspections, enforcement of lock-out/tag-out program, Arc Flash/Shock Hazard Program, enforcement of the confined space program, etc.).
- Conducts accident investigation of all injuries requiring medical attention (or as requested by Plant management).
- Assesses the skills and abilities of assigned personnel and develops training opportunities to close the skills gap.
- Receives approved schedules together with relevant work orders and other planning documents from the planner/scheduler. Discusses work schedule as necessary to understand special instructions or considerations to be observed in the execution of the jobs and reviews new jobs coming up in the future.
- Coordinates work process improvement actions to streamline the accomplishment of the work schedule.
- Supervises the quality of workmanship of assigned work crew by auditing work during and after work completion.
- Adjusts weekly work schedule each day to ensure adequate work coverage based upon the work order priority and craft availability.
- Reviews the actual labor expended versus estimated labor and material used for completed jobs, in order to determine corrective measures needed to improve the accuracy of estimating and improving methods of doing work.
- Assists planner in examination of jobs to be done and determination of scope and best way to accomplish the work.
- Obtains blueprints, drawings, instructional manuals and special procedures, as needed, from files or other sources. Makes any additional sketches, diagrams, etc., necessary to clarify the intent of the work order.
- Knowledgeable of and able to utilize the computerized maintenance management system to accomplish department goals.
- Thoroughly understands and supports the work management process. Enforces department adherence to proper work request/order procedures.
- Ensures the safety needs are given a top priority in work execution.
- Notes equipment/process performance improvement opportunities, opens work requests to document improvement suggestions, and facilitates equipment improvement opportunities by working with the Planning & Scheduling to effect necessary planning and work scheduling.
- Acts as the principle contact between Production Supervision and the Maintenance Department.
- Ensures the production areas receive prompt, efficient and quality service from the maintenance function and ensures the maintenance function is given the opportunity to provide this service.
- Coordinates plant maintenance requirements with the Planner/Scheduler to effect necessary upgrades, modifications and repairs.
- Keeps the Maintenance Manager properly informed on all abnormal or critical situations and seeks advice on matters outside of the supervisor’s knowledge or authority.
- Utilizes data to analyze equipment failure modes, Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), etc. and suggests/implements improvement processes to reduce or eliminate equipment/process failures (I.E.: PM inspection improvements, predictive maintenance techniques, maintenance employee training, etc.).
- Assists the Planner/Scheduler in the development of PM inspections for new/existing equipment.
- Ensures Preventive Maintenance (PM)…
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