Maintenance Supervisor - Taylor Farms

About the Role

The Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for planning, assigning, supervising and directing activities to maintenance technicians. The Maintenance Supervisor will also be responsible to coach, mentor, train all maintenance technicians and interact with all customers and management to achieve business and departmental objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities

· Coordinate equipment set ups, repairs and installation to meet customer requirements.

· Supervises and/or participates in the repair or maintenance of all machinery and equipment

· Consistently apply the internal maintenance development plan to ensure mechanics on the shift are adding new skill sets specific to machine type

· Manage the manpower to ensure adherence to schedule and the meeting of deadlines.

· Ensures compliance to GMP's, SOP's, FDA, and OSHA rules and regulations.

· Ensures plant facility and equipment are maintained according to standards.

· Assists Director, Maintenance and Facilities in the performance of assigned duties.

· Trains new employees in accordance with training programs and plant procedures.

· Inspires, coaches, and corrects employees to ensure a grow-from-within departmental mentality

· Promotes established safety programs and insure safe operating procedures and monitor employee compliance.

· Ensures that work areas are cleaned and organized during assigned shift.

Experience/Skills/Abilities:

• Associate Degree in Electronics/Electrical Technology and/or equivalent formal training and work experience required.
• Completion of formal management skills training program preferred.

· 1-2 years experience in plant maintenance and engineering.

· Demonstrated knowledge in Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning, Refrigeration, Welding, Electronic/Electrical Equipment repair, Industrial Equipment installation, start up, repair, wastewater and boiler, etc.

· 3 - 5 years experience supervising a maintenance department at the shift level

· Verifiable ability to develop both SOPs and training programs for a department. Verifiable experience with improving KPIs such as downtime, machine spend, and PM completion.

· Must be able to demonstrate examples of knowledge sharing and skill improvement for direct reports. This is an on the ground/floor maintenance focused leadership role.

· Must be able to deal with a challenging work environment – temperature, schedule, days of week etc.

· Ability to troubleshoot and repair both major and minor pieces of equipment using problem-solving techniques.

Ability to climb fixed and portable ladders. Ability to crawl under and climb onto machinery and equipment

Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred but not required.