Maintenance Supervisor - 3rd Shift

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Position Summary:

As the Maintenance Supervisor, you play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operations of our plant. From overseeing the maintenance of manufacturing and facilities equipment to managing utility services, boilers, HVAC, and more, your expertise is vital in keeping our operations running seamlessly. But it doesn't stop there. You will also have the opportunity to provide mentorship and skill development to our dedicated Maintenance and Operations teams. By focusing on loss elimination, risk management, and life cycle asset management, you will help us maintain a proactive planned maintenance program that keeps us ahead of the game. In addition, you will be responsible for training, mentoring, and assessing our mechanics on the maintenance and engineering aspects of Nestle Continuous Excellence (NCE). By utilizing TPM as a multi-disciplinary approach, you will help establish a culture of continuous improvement and zero loss, driving us towards excellence. Your role also extends to overseeing the supervision and regulatory compliance of our environmental program. We take our commitment to sustainability seriously, and your expertise will be instrumental in ensuring we meet all necessary standards. And let's not forget about the exciting projects that await you. You will have the opportunity to manage installations, modifications, and renovations of our buildings and equipment, making a tangible impact on our operations.

Join us in this dynamic role, where you will have the chance to lead, mentor, and make a real difference in our continuous improvement journey. Together, we will create a maintenance program that sets new standards and propels us towards success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Guide the factories to reduce technical stoppages in equipment or areas of common occurrence (priority given to areas of the highest incidence or impact, Air compressors, KathaBars, Boilers).
• Ensure the detailed review all line, processes, and utilities that are essential to the business and those where failure can have an unacceptable impact on safety, personnel safety, food safety, environment, or compliance with the law.
• Supervise plant/equipment trends to ensure the best possible operation and reduction of planned/unplanned downtime.
• Facilitate the evolution/refinement of Maintenance activities to minimize planned and unplanned downtime (PM's, changeovers, etc.).
• Ensure the implementation of all repairs/modifications resulting from Gap assessments, plant audits, and notifications are executed on time and offer a high-quality workmanship.
• Ensure that the job, material, and services planning is accurate and effective.
• Ensure that the equipment history, damage code and root cause analysis are completed accurately.
• Develop and lead a network of Factory SME's. Train and guide them in the implementation and leadership of the NCE Reliability program in their factories.
• Evaluate the performance of team members and provide periodic feedback to ensure development.
• Collaborate with corporate engineers, suppliers, contractors, and plant partners to ensure customer needs are met.
• Encourage close teamwork between all functions (Engineering, Productions, Quality Management, etc.).
• Conduct regular inspections of plant to seek out potential problems and to solicit operator feedback.
• Own the technical stores, scheduled Work Orders, labor hour allocation and the equipment Bill of Material (BOM).

Experience & Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in any Engineering discipline preferred or manufacturing or production equipment maintenance experience in lieu of degree.
• 3-5 years of experience in a maintenance lead capacity required.
• Review of overall work priority and progress through weekly meetings, monthly status reports and personal review annually.
• Understands and/or can learn the role and responsibilities of the position, including:
• Provide direct supervision to about 20 technicians
• Develop work schedules to utilize maintenance skills and personnel availability.
• CMMS and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) system knowledge required
• Active management style to support, guide, and mentor technicians through troubleshooting equipment issues.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements for food safety.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks.
• Proficient of computer programs such as Microsoft Office.
• Ability to adjust quickly to changing demands.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of the cost drivers of Maintenance in manufacturing operations.
• Good working knowledge of CMMS systems (SAP, Maximo) with the ability to mine and analyze data for trends/reports.
• Physical ability to lift, stand, climb, bend, etc.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds
• Work environment may be exposed to powders, chemicals and allergens (peanuts, tree nuts, milk, dairy, eggs, wheat, gluten, soy, fish and shellfish)

Requisition ID: 347019

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