MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR

Description

JOB TITLE: Maintenance Supervisor

DEPARTMENT: Maintenance

Based at Lindsay CA

Essential Functions:

• Communicates directly with all departments to coordinate maintenance and repair work in process areas.
• Communicates directly with QA laboratory to ensure effective participation by the maintenance workers in the implementation of QA policies and procedures.
• Implements programs and procedures required to ensure plant cleanliness.
• Assists with planning and implementing plant improvements and expansions.
• Participates in monthly Safety Committee Meetings as a member.
• Maintains and updates operating and training manuals for the maintenance department.
• Ensures that all maintenance workers are trained on the most updated version of the operating procedures.
• Monitors operation of plant equipment and systems.
• Reviews the operation of plant equipment and systems constantly, to minimize unplanned downtime, anticipate solve problems in a timely manner, and to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Maintains and repairs maintenance shop equipment.
• Establishes and maintains a computerized maintenance management system for tracking work orders, spare parts, and maintenance history of plant equipment.
• Prepares reports, analyzes data, and makes recommendations for improving plant operations and solving maintenance-related problems.
• Supervises plant maintenance personnel.
• Ensures that maintenance workers are adequately trained, equipped, and motivated so that the maintenance program can be accomplished in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner.
• Communicates regularly with all maintenance workers, both individually and as a group, to ensure good two-way communication concerning maintenance issues.
• Assists with hiring of maintenance personnel.
• Initiates and carries out projects that improve efficiency and/or reduce operating costs.
• Tracks, analyzes and improves key maintenance parameters such as asset utilization, maintenance cost, PM compliance, schedule compliance, etc.
• Maintains safety, health, and environmental policies and procedures.
• Ensures city, county, state, and federal regulations relating to the maintenance department are met at all times.
• Directs, maintains, and enforces the safety program for the maintenance department; reviews safety records to uphold standards of maximum safety for all maintenance technicians.
• Coordinates activities with Plant Operations Departments.
• Participate in objective setting, plan development and performance review of plant performance.
• Initiates, implements, and manages the plant maintenance program based on best practices in the ethanol industry, with an emphasis on planning/scheduling and preventive/predictive maintenance.
• Monitors the use and inventories of spare parts, maintenance supplies, and equipment and initiates reordering when necessary.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications

Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field of study (this may vary)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in the industrial ingredient industry (this may vary)
• Must pass a drug test and background investigation, as necessary for the position
• Ethical and punctual, fulfilling obligations as promised
• Must be dependable and reliable, following the schedule as set

General Physical Requirements:

• Sitting, standing, walking, jogging, leaping, running on uneven ground, stairs, or elevated structures
• May climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl
• Physically able to lift up to 50 pounds
• Hand dexterity to use tools, type or handwrite
• Reaches with hands or arms and performs movements such as pulling, pushing, hammering
• Ability to speak verbally and raise voice when necessary
• Must have the ability to hear
• Must have adequate vision to see
• Ability to work inside a building or structure
• Ability to work outside in different types of weather to include wet conditions such as rain, heat, direct sun exposure, and in rare cases, snow, sleet and ice

Salary : $85,000 - $100,000