What are the responsibilities and job description for the Distribution Maintenance Supervisor position at Generac Power Systems?
We are Generac, a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world.
Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries.
The Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for preventative maintenance, property, plant, and equipment. This role ensues the infrastructure provides a safe workplace environment, delivering efficient services, and high customer service levels. Success in this role is defined by optimizing preventative maintenance, property, plant, equipment, environment, health, safety, and capital expenditure. This will be measured by the ability to optimize growth efficiencies – synergies, scale and scope.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supervise and coordinate activities of team.
- Develop written programs/procedures for maintenance shop activities. Select, coach and develop staff. Set clear expectations to inspire and motivate the team. Manage performance
- - recognizing achievement, providing feedback and administering progressive discipline when necessary.
- Senior machine operator of all equipment in maintenance shop.
- Repair or replace in-process production equipment, in response to requests.
- Welding and fabrication of machines, guarding, structures and holding mechanisms.
- Develop machine design.
- Recommend incorporation of new technology for company application where feasible and practical.
- Develop, Review and estimate design costs including equipment, installation, labor, materials, preparation, and other related costs.
- Collaborate with outside contractors for servicing/repair of all maintenance shop machines that are on a scheduled PM program.
- Manage all consumables needed for maintenance shop use.
- Act as SAP Super User within functional area as assigned.
Minimal Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 2 years of maintenance experience in an operational environment
- 2 years of experience leading teams, developing people or organizing tasks.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in Lean or Demand Flow principles.
- Formal leadership or team development training.
- Previous experience using SAP or equivalent ERP system (Oracle, JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics) and Microsoft Office.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
- Relationship Building and Earning Trust – Consistently follows through on team commitments, communicates, and demonstrates accountability. Builds trust and sets the example for the team by being inclusive and fair.
- Accountability – Remains outcome focused, holding the team accountable while removing barriers to success. Plays to win by defining team objectives/scope and clear milestones. Keeps leadership apprised of progress and brings options/solutions for issues when elevated.
- Ask, Listen, and Follow Up – Actively listens, questions to help others understand, shows care/concern, and closes loop. Drives action and alignment using coaching techniques, reinforces team's progress/development.
- Inspire, Motivate and Recognize – Teaches others new tasks and is self- aware of strengths/developmental opportunities. Celebrates individual successes.
- Conflict Management and Resolution – Influences employees to collaborate and achieve goals as a group. Asks questions, remains unbiased and encourages unconventional suggestions. Diffuses conflict as it arises rather than avoiding it and focuses on solving the problem.
- Identify, Engage and Retain – Creates an open and honest work environment, providing others an opportunity to develop and grow.
- Change Agent – Consistently optimistic about the ability to change in order to improve a product/service. Uses the voice of customer (VOC) to validate ideas. Works well autonomously and in a team, leads change by promoting the value of transformation.
- Demonstrated skills to understand mechanical and electrical principles, machine functionality, drawings and schematics.
Great Reasons to work for Generac:
- Competitive Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, 401k and many more
- Many employee activities
- Scheduled events throughout the year that allow our employees, both current and retirees, to gather together and enjoy their time with their families and co-workers
- Pride! When a storm strikes, Generac employees always rise to the occasion. Each time a storm hits many employees volunteer their time with the customer support team or on the production line while others go right into storm-affected areas to repair generators
- We believe in having fun. From minor celebrations to major events, our employees balance their work by building a strong culture of teamwork and collaboration through a variety of occasions, including our Fun Days.
- Every day is Jeans Day! Dress for your day.
- Product loan and discount programs
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 - 50 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.
“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.”
