Maintenance Supervisor

General Position Summary & Responsibilities:

The Maintenance Supervisor (MS) reports to the Maintenance Manager, Recycling Operations General Manager, Recycling Operations Regional General Manager, or the Asset Manager/Sr. Asset Manager.  The MS has the primary responsibility for ensuring the environmentally sound, safe, cost effective, planned, and efficient operations of all mobile equipment including prioritizing and scheduling of work assignments, assessing repairs, and supervising and monitoring work quality, and managing direct reports. The MS is responsible for all maintenance and maintenance personnel within the assigned facility.  The incumbent will need to challenge conventional thinking to obtain the most efficient solutions to issues that arise as well as utilize best practices, benchmarks, and metrics to improve the organization.

This position operates within somewhat flexible parameters.  The primary goal of this position is to achieve excellence in all facets of the position.  Providing the highest quality product safely, effectively, and efficiently decreases accidents and errors and increase profits.

Essential Functions:

• Environmental and Health & Safety (H&S)
  • Providing a safe environment for all employees, customers, and visitors.
• Operational Performance & Best Business Practices
  • Responsible for determining schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities, based on work priority, quantity of equipment and skill of personnel.
  • Responsible for developing, monitoring, and evaluating maintenance policies and procedures, examine objects, systems, or facilities and analyze information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs.
  • Responsible for compiling and reporting on operations and personnel records, such as time and production records, inventory data, repair and maintenance statistics, and test results via the use of Microsoft Office and Oracle EAM applications.
  • Coordinates processes to ensure internal and external customer satisfaction.
  • Daily collaboration and communication with other supervisors, managers, and staff members to formulate and implement policies, procedures or achieve goals and objectives.
  • Plans, organizes, and manages the work of direct reports to ensure that the optimal performance is achieved in a manner consistent with organizational requirements and business objectives and goals.
• Budgeting & Forecasting
  • Responsible for continuously monitoring, negotiating, and adjusting, all contracts, leases, expenses, or agreements associated with the maintenance operations function.
  • Responsible for monitoring department spending to ensure that expenses are consistent with approved budgets.
  • Awareness of and strategic response to external influences, such as DOT and OSHA legislation is vital.
• Administrative Management
  • Monitors and maintains exempt and and/or hourly staff at cost effective and competitive levels.
  • Monitors supervisory practices for self and direct reports to ensure compliance with HR policies and union contracts, as applicable.
  • Reviews performance of direct reports.
  • Interviews prospective management and/or production employees.
  • Works with Human Resources personnel to prepare job descriptions.
• Special Projects
  • Performs special projects or other duties as needed or assigned.

Internal Control Responsibilities:

Support the Company’s Internal Control process which includes understanding, communicating, and complying with defined internal controls as well as suggesting and making modifications to the policies, procedures, and controls to better relate to the business. Communicate upward problems in operations, noncompliance with the code of conduct, or other policy violations or illegal actions.

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position supervises electricians, welders, heavy equipment mechanics, truck mechanics, and other maintenance mechanics at their assigned facility.

Job Conditions:

Workload is cyclical and can present significant time pressures when strict adherence to deadlines is critical.  Workload is often reactive and cannot be anticipated or planned for.  Often many extra hours are required, weekend, weekday, and holidays. Exposure to physical operations at metal recycling yards.

Occasional exposure to inclement weather conditions. Work pressure can be substantial during peak times, requiring considerable adaptability; disturbances of workflow, and/or irregularities in work schedule are expected and occur on an intermittent basis.  Regular overtime is required. 

Physical Activities Required to Perform Essential Functions: (see standard available bullets)

Example: Ability to: lift and carry up to 10 pounds occasionally; sit for extended periods of time, up to 6-8 hours per day; write by hand and keyboard for extended periods of time, up to 6-8 hours per day; assemble papers, paper punch, staple, file; apply sufficient force to open and close file drawers.  Ability to communicate by speech and hearing continuously.  Communication is primarily by phone, email and sometimes in person, with other departments within the Schnitzer Group.  Visual acuity needed for close detail work, preparing, and analyzing data figures, accounting, and computer use.

Qualifications:

Minimum 5-7 years’ experience, or equivalent, in a related industrial environment.  Previous supervisor or management experience in related field.  College courses in business or management helpful.  This position requires possession of a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive an automobile.

Knowledge of fabrication, tools, maintenance of heavy equipment/parts, and repair; computer competent; attention to detail and accuracy; excellent math, organizational, and management skills; tact and ability to communicate on a professional level to employees of all levels from staff to senior management, both orally and in writing.  Ability to obtain and evaluate data about equipment and how to use that information; work under heavy pressure; apply principles of logical and scientific thinking to define problems, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions in controlled situations; and interpret and extensive variety of technical materials in books, manuals, texts, etc.