The Maintenance Supervisor serves as a technical advisor for manufacturing site leadership team. This position will lead maintenance team in implementing a coherent maintenance and reliability strategy aimed at reducing breakdowns and extending manufacturing equipment life. This position will be responsible for providing technical leadership and support of lean manufacturing objectives and ensuring full utilization of all maintenance information systems within the plant. This position reports to Facility Manager.

Location: Ironton, Ohio

Primary Responsibilities:

• Direct the efficient maintenance, improvement, installation, and safe operation of various types of processing equipment in compliance with company, state, and federal policies, procedures, and regulations including OSHA, FDA, SQF, AIB, EPA, GMP, NFPA, NEC, and other code and regulatory agencies.
• Responsible for a team of technicians including training, coaching, mentoring, performance and compensation management, and career development. Work with operations team to establish production line operating metrics such as efficiencies, up time and reliability.
• Provide technical support related to maintenance and reliability services for all production equipment throughout the facility. Assure lines are mechanically capable of meeting standard operating rates and reliability and improve up time and reliability for all lines.
• Maintain an appropriate and adequate supply of inventory and parts. Identify and develop plans to improve equipment designs or department procedures to maximize asset availability. Drive plant asset integrity and reliability programs including proactive maintenance programs such as Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Programs, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Maintenance Scheduling, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), improvement through Lean Six Sigma Techniques and other Best Practices.
• Optimize cost through efficient budget planning and management. Identify and implement cost-saving ideas for facility maintenance.
• Interface with vendors and contractors providing services to the facility to ensure company needs are met.
• Interface with associates in manufacturing, warehouse, planning, engineering, QA and other departments or improvement teams as needed as a technical resource.
• Perform other job related projects duties and assignments as directed by plant management. Other duties may be assigned due to business needs or special circumstances which require reassignment to other departments or other job duties.

Desired Technical/Functional Skills:

• 7 + years of experience in manufacturing or project engineering preferably in processing and consumer packaged goods industries.
• Minimum of five years supervisory and people leadership experience.
• TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) and CMRP (Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional) preferred with asset management best practices.
• Significant hands-on experience in leading maintenance teams.
• Significant record of achievement with regard to lean manufacturing support, continuous improvement, and breakdown reduction.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Ability to perform data manipulation and analysis using Microsoft Office suite.
• Applicable systems and software knowledge.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to create a culture of accountability and teamwork.

Education and/or Experience:

Associate's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering or related field with at least 8 years experience with industrial maintenance supervision and management; OR
BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN MECHANICAL OR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING OR RELATED FIELD WITH AT LEAST FIVE YEARS EXPERIENCE WITH INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE SUPERVISION AND MANAGEMENT;

Equivalent combination of education and experience in management will be considered.