Maintenance Supervisor

Job Category: Maintenance Full-Time On-site Batavia, IL West Chicago,
IL 60185, USA Job Details Description Supervise employees engaged in
maintenance activities to ensure that production machinery, material
handling, building systems, and building integrity are inefficient
operating order.
 Job Responsibilities
 • Working through direct reports, ensure that plant equipment is
maintained in optimum operating condition to avoid, or minimize,
production downtime. Respond urgently to equipment-related production
issues by assigning repair work as soon as issues are identified.
 • Develop, maintain, and administer all aspects of the critical spare
parts, recycling, and other equipment-based programs as assigned.
 • Ensure timely completion of work orders; repairs, and preventative
maintenance through MP2 (or similar software) and documentation of all
maintenance activities.
 • Approve all parts orders within approved purchasing limits as
established by organization policy.
 • Provide maintenance employees with the proper equipment and parts
to perform their function efficiently.
 • Work with other departments and individuals to effectively
coordinate equipment and building maintenance activities.
 • Ensure that the Maintenance Shop is kept orderly and clean.
 • Responsible for providing after-hours maintenance resources by
calling inappropriate maintenance staff; responding personally in
critical or complicated situations.
 • Select, train, and manage the performance of qualified maintenance
mechanics to maintain a broad range of expertise within the maintenance
department.
 • Provide necessary guidance, technical support, and training to
ensure that all employees work safely and comply with food safety
programs.
 • Schedule and assign personnel accordingly to ensure coverage for a
seven-day-a-week maintenance department; review, edit, and approve
employee timecards each week.
 • Evaluate the performance of individuals, take disciplinary action,
provide coaching and feedback, and recommend dismissal when necessary.
 • Assume certain duties of other management in times of absence.
 • Perform other duties as assigned. Experience & Skills • Five
years of experience working or supervising in the vocational trades
including, but not necessarily limited to, HVAC, Electrical/Electronic
and Mechanical. • Two to three year of experience supervising or
acting in a lead capacity in a production or production maintenance
environment.
 • Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally with
employees at all levels of the organization.
 • Ability to work with employees at all levels and to motivate direct
reports; specifically mentoring and coaching individuals and identifying
short- and long-term development needs and providing appropriate
support.
 • Ability to manage multiple priorities at one time using effective
organizational skills and judgment in an environment of frequently
changing circumstances.
 • Ability to use the Microsoft Office suite of applications;
specifically using Word to create and modify documents, Excel to record
data and calculate results, and Outlook to communicate internally and
externally. Education
 • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field or
equivalent knowledge and skills acquired through on-the-job training or
experience. Work Environment
 • Work is generally performed within a manufacturing environment
subjected to temperatures of cold and warm along with wearing the proper
PPE, with standard office equipment available along with plant
manufacturing environment.
 • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly
required to sit, stand, bend, walk, use hands or fingers, talk, hear,and
feel objects, tools, or controls; may be required to lift up to 50
pounds. Vision abilities include close vision of a computer screen.