Maintenance Supervisor - Day Shift

RH Sheppard Co, Inc

$80K — $120K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • College Degree or High School Diploma/GED with relevant Manufacturing Experience
  • Supervisory experience
  • Proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams)
  • Experience in maintenance within production/manufacturing environments
  • Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing techniques, including Standardized Work, Continuous Improvement, 5S, and JIT principles
  • Ability to work overtime as needed, including daily and weekends

Responsibilities

  • Lead maintenance technicians in repairs, installations, and preventative maintenance of equipment and buildings.
  • Manage and schedule maintenance staff for daily line support and in-house repair work.
  • Plan and implement a Preventative Maintenance schedule for all processes.
  • Interface with suppliers to coordinate actions on part and service failures.
  • Track and report critical maintenance data, including equipment efficiency and downtime.
  • Communicate with Production Supervisors and Managers on shift handovers to maintain operational continuity.
  • Conduct audits to ensure shift activities are done consistently and efficiently.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment that emphasizes team dynamics and relationships.
  • Opportunities for continuous improvement and professional development through training programs.
  • Potential for overtime pay as needed for increased earnings.
  • Engagement with lean manufacturing methodologies to streamline processes and improve efficiency.
  • Support for health, safety, and environmental compliance, empowering employees to act on issues.
Full Job Description
Job Type

Full-time

Description

The Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for leading the day-to-day distribution of activities in the maintenance of the production area to achieve performance goals in the areas of safety, quality, cost, delivery and KPS in a high performing work team environment. Must be capable of collaborating with cross-functional teams and management to address concerns and issues that affect safety, part quality, production efficiency, continuous improvement, etc. The Maintenance Supervisor will also have exceptional interpersonal, organizational, and management skills, demonstrating the ability to be an innovator and change agent.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
  • Lead maintenance technicians in the repair, replacement, installation, and preventative maintenance of the building and equipment.
  • Manages and schedules maintenance staff accordingly to provide day to day line support, in-house repair work, breakdown responses, PTO scheduling, overtime, and weekend work.
  • Plans and implements a Preventative Maintenance schedule for all processes.
  • Interfaces with suppliers to coordinate action on failure issues on parts and services.
  • Reports, tracks, and trends critical monthly maintenance data: major equipment downtime, monthly equipment efficiency measures (MTTR & MTBF), total uptime, staff utilization, etc.
  • Ensures maintenance records are properly files and maintained.
  • Leads and participates in DMS and OEE meetings and serves as back-up to Line Leaders.
  • Communicates relevant information with Production Supervisors and Production Managers on alternate shifts for shift handovers to ensure consistency and meet priorities.
  • Maintains KPIs and updates and audits DMS boards accordingly.
  • Assures lines are running efficiently through assignment of resources and delegation of responsibilities.
  • Addresses and escalates people, machine, method and material deviations as necessary.
  • Ensures performance of autonomous maintenance activities.
  • Audits, ensures and validates shift activities are consistently being performed; includes planning, quality checks, standard work, time and attendance reporting, and OEE system updates, including hour-by-hour bottleneck station tracking.
  • Partners with logistics for planning, including attendance in daily meetings.
  • Partners with Line Leads and Maintenance Supervisors to update training matrices in effort to ensure manpower flexibility.
  • Establishes strong and effective working relationships that are conducive to maintaining a positive work environment.
  • Ensures team members are trained, in accordance with training matrices and onboarding plans, understand their roles and responsibilities, and are given appropriate performance feedback.
  • Promotes and drives the organization's vision and utilization of KPS (Lean Manufacturing) methodologies.
  • Ensures compliance with all company procedures and policies; addresses issues and lack of compliance through coaching and feedback and escalates, as necessary.
  • Responsible for interviewing, hiring and department training and onboarding to ensure full competency and production efficiency in areas of responsibility.
  • Understands and adheres to current company health, safety, and environmental policies and procedures, including ISO14001. Is empowered to identify, stop, and communicate or escalate appropriate action regarding safety, health, and environmental concerns.
  • Understands and adheres to current company quality policies and procedures, including IATF16949. Is empowered to identify, stop, and communicate or escalate appropriate action regarding product quality.
  • Performs other duties as assigned, including coverage in other plants/shifts as required.


CORE COMPETENCIES:
  • Leadership: Demonstrates ability to give direction, motivate, manage and reward performance, provide constructive feedback and foster individual professional development.
  • Entrepreneurship and Decision Making: Demonstrates ability to discover opportunities in challenges, seek profit and sustainable growth, make courageous while sound decisions and demonstrate a good business understanding.
  • Influential and Inspirational: Demonstrates the ability to convince others to embrace ideas, providing compelling arguments and making use of informal processes.
  • Accountability: Demonstrates ability to take responsibility and maintains sense of ownership and follow through on commitments. Sets high standards of performance for team.
  • Communication: Demonstrates ability to convey and distribute information effectively and encompass strong speaking, presentation, written and listening skills. Ability to create an environment for open communication.
  • Teamwork: Demonstrates ability to work well with others to accomplish common goals and build a positive climate and trusting relationships within teams.


WORKING ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS:
  • May be exposed to moderate heat, light dust, fumes, extreme temperatures, noise and hazards such as electrical shock or gases. Some outside assignments could involve exposure to adverse weather conditions. Adequate hearing protection is required for 85 decibels and above.


SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:
  • This position has supervisory responsibilities.


SCHEDULE:
  • Day Shift Monday through Friday


The demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:
  • College Degree or Technical Certificate
  • 5 Years of Supervisory experience
  • Proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams)
  • Experience with maintenance in production/manufacturing environment
  • Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing techniques with emphasis on Standardized Work, Continuous Improvement, 5S, and JIT principles
  • Ability to work overtime as needed both daily and weekends


Salary Description

$80,000 - $120,000, plus a competitive bonus plan

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