Maintenance Supervisor

Job Overview

• Lead and supervise all maintenance technicians and the wastewater treatment team, including work assignments, coaching, training, performance management, and employee development.
• Plan, coordinate, and optimize preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance to maximize equipment reliability, minimize downtime, and maintain production efficiency.
• Manage the maintenance work-order backlog, prioritize repairs, track breakdown trends, and ensure timely completion and accurate CMMS documentation.
• Lead troubleshooting and repair of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, PLC, automation, and facility systems.
• Establish and maintain effective maintenance standards, including field tours, pre-shift meetings, visual management, work planning, and communication of instructions.
• Lead and support maintenance projects, including equipment specifications, technical evaluations, installation, commissioning, acceptance, preventive maintenance planning, and capital improvements.
• Promote a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with OSHA, LOTO, PPE, company safety procedures, and safe work practices, including work in automated and energized areas.
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with food safety, sanitation, hygiene, quality, and environmental requirements; communicate food safety concerns to the Quality Department.
• Support regulatory compliance for plant equipment and installations and maintain required maintenance, inspection, calibration, and compliance records.
• Conduct safety inspections and proactively identify opportunities to improve equipment, processes, and facilities.

• Work is performed primarily in a food manufacturing environment with frequent exposure to hot or cold temperatures, noise, vibration, and wet or humid conditions, with occasional chemical exposure.
• Required PPE must be worn in accordance with facility requirements.
• Position requires frequent standing, walking, bending, stooping, reaching, and climbing stairs or ladders, with occasional squatting, crawling, pushing/pulling up to 75 pounds, and lifting/carrying up to 50 pounds.
• Schedule may vary based on operational needs and may include overtime, weekends, vacation coverage, and rotating on-call responsibilities.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum five years of industrial maintenance experience, preferably in food or dairy manufacturing.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supervising a maintenance team.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, PLC, automation, and industrial maintenance systems.
• Experience with preventive and predictive maintenance, troubleshooting, RCA, and reliability improvement.
• Working knowledge of CMMS, Microsoft Excel, LOTO, OSHA requirements, and industrial safety practices.
• OSHA 30 certification.
• Ability to use basic shop mathematics, interpret blueprints and drawings, and use precision measuring instruments.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, troubleshooting, leadership, and problem-solving skills.

• Dairy or cheese manufacturing experience.
• Five or more years of maintenance leadership experience.
• TIG/MIG welding experience and ability to train others.
• Experience with wastewater treatment systems.
• Experience with continuous improvement and reliability programs.
• Experience managing maintenance budgets, capital projects, and equipment installations.
• Experience with food safety and sanitation requirements in a manufacturing environment.