What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Supervisor position at PTS Advance?
Our client is a leading global energy company specializing in sustainable wood bioenergy and their product provides a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels.
A fantastic opportunity exists for a Maintenance Manager/Supervisor at one of it's production sites in Amory, MS. On offer will be a competitive base salary, quarterly bonus and equity payment, excellent benefits. Relocation assistance will be provided where required.
As a Maintenance Manager, your mission is to manage the daily work schedule and execution of plant maintenance to ensure the plant can safely produce pellets which meet our production goals and quality specifications.
Responsibilities
Partners with Corporate Reliability team to implement maintenance methods and procedures designed to reduce downtime, supply chain losses, minimize operating costs, and optimize the utilization of technicians, materials, and assets.
- Partners with manufacturing teams to deliver production targets and quality objectives.
- Provides technical expertise to increase the number of zero breakdown machines, reduce breakdown re-occurrences, and increase Mean Time between Failure (MTBF).
- Monitor, coach, and hold the mechanics and electricians (hourly craftsmen) accountable in performing their jobs safely and in accordance with defined maintenance procedures and job plans to achieve safety, quality, and production goals.
- Direct your team and contractors to effectively deal with unexpected breakdowns in the production process to achieve production goals; doing everything yourself is not an option.
- Demonstrate safety and maintenance procedures and equipment/tool operation to new employees and ensure team completes required monthly training and certifications.
- Complete employee performance reviews
- Reviewing work backlog & weekly work schedule and working with other Area Managers to ensure the right work is getting done effectively and efficiently.
- Communicate detailed work schedules for the following day, as well as results from the previous day to other management groups. Understand gaps and opportunities that occurred and develop plans to address.
- Lead a maintenance-turnover meeting, communicating to oncoming shift any safety incidents/issues, schedule updates, production performance, and any special instructions.
- Communicate daily results, and top action items for the day to plant management during daily morning management meetings.
- Review and ensure compliance with safe work practices, operational excellence management standards, standard operating procedures, standard Preventative Maintenance (PM) procedures, job plans, and standard repair procedures.
- Work with Shift Leaders on any safety/environmental incidents that may have occurred, that involve the maintenance organization.
- Review and approve time/attendance using UltiPro HR Information Management System
- Own the operation, maintenance, and performance of common plant equipment such as air compressors, boilers, air conditioners, offices, etc.
- Enter work requests for emergency breakdowns on common plant equipment and observed issues in the electronic asset management system
- Ensure you have appropriate coverage from other shifts / areas to cover for any planned/unplanned time-off.
- Owns and maintains the process of storing, organizing, and charging out spare maintenance parts.
- Consistently partners with other team members to proactively manage maintenance costs and purchasing practices for driving value with effective and controlled spending.
- Willing and able to use a computer – including Microsoft Office (Excel, Work, PowerPoint, Outlook Email, Project, PowerBI), OESuites, Rockwell VantagePoint (dashboards and machine trends), D365 EAM Software
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Engineering or related discipline, with 5 years of supervisory experience, delivering reliability improvements in a fast-changing manufacturing environment, or equivalent combination or experience/education/certifications.
- Experience managing maintenance teams and supporting autonomous manufacturing teams as they deliver continuous improvements.
- Experience managing P.M. (Preventative Maintenance) practices.
- Proven track record coaching, mentoring, and motivating and managing employees' skills development.
- Demonstrated experience proactively leading and coaching teams to solve problems, utilizing automatic line monitoring and other reliability improvement processes.
- Experience setting business targets to drive and sustain continuous loss reductions.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and team leadership skills.
