Maintenance and Capital Supervisor

Under the direction of the Plant Manager, you will be responsible for effective coordination and supervision of maintenance and capital activities at the Johnstown plant. A successful candidate will provide effective management of maintenance personnel and activities including storeroom management, work orders, planning and organizing project work, and preventative maintenance plan execution to minimize downtime.  This role also involves coordinating capital work with contractors and key plant stakeholders and updating the plant capital tracker. This role is accountable for meeting safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives

• Be a trusted partner to a growing business
  
• Networking and Relationship Building
  
• Ability to be innovative and strategic
  
• Collaboration and an open friendly team environment.
  

Safety

• Maintaining safety awareness through active employee engagement and positive reinforcement
  
• Drive good housekeeping to ensure a clean and safe work environment, striving for 5S.
  
• Timely reporting of all near misses and first aid events, encouraging good catches, risk assessments, and root cause elimination
  
• Ensure employees completion of all required safety training.
  
• Lead execution of monthly team safety requirements - including completion of behavior-based safety observations, near miss reporting, safe work permits, safety meetings, pre-shift safety inspections, departmental inspections, etc.
  
• Educate and coach team members on safe operating procedures and behaviors and provide reinforcement and feedback where appropriate to drive desired behaviors.
  
• Perform reporting and investigation of all safety incidents, driving to root cause and permanent resolution.
  
• Ensure contractors are following the established safety policies at the plant for contractors.
  

Quality

• Collaborate with Quality to communicate customer feedback to the workforce, implement corrective actions, and improve overall plant quality systems.
  
• Ensure the equipment is maintained so quality products can be produced.
  
• Coordinate activities of workers fabricating or modifying machines, tools, or equipment to manufacture new products or improve existing products.
  
• Inspects operating machines and equipment for conformance with operational standards.
  

Lead and develop talent

• Monitor and enforce all plant and corporate policies and procedures.
  
• Provide candid feedback on expectations and performance to all team members regularly.
  
• Actively lead and build effective work teams to increase plant performance and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
  
• Administer discipline and positive feedback where necessary and appropriate.
  
• Maintain documentation, track, counsel, and execute coaching and corrective action when performance issues occur.
  
• Review, track, and modify individual training plans based on individual, and shift needs.
  
• Use Kronos workforce management to assign schedules and approve time-off.
  

Delivery

• Plan and schedule basic maintenance.
  
• Planning work orders; ordering and kitting materials; auditing work to ensure it is completed to standards defined in the job plan.
  
• Identify special equipment requirements and safety precautions.
  
• Handle complex work requests that require application of basic engineering fundamentals and use of basic project management skills.
  
• Develop detailed master job plans for critical repairs - creates a library of critical job plans to ensure effective execution of tasks and improve planning efficiency.
  
• Communicate status of work orders, improvement efforts, performance results and spending levels as appropriate to increase knowledge and awareness in all associates. Frequently and effectively communicates status of current and upcoming general plant and project work to production and staff groups.
  
• Coordinate weekly and down day plans and schedules.
  
• Publish maintenance PM�s weekly and closes all PM�s. Updates PM content and frequencies.
  
• Control storeroom operation through use of on-line computerized maintenance management systems (SAP).
  
• Develop and implements processes for continued improvement of stores operations and management of inventory value.
  
• Research parts and equipment in support of the maintenance department needs.
  
• Evaluates storeroom order quantities, reorder points, with other plant personnel utilizing a validation and approval process.
  
• Instructs new employees in storeroom function and procedures.
  
• Develop and manage a predictive maintenance program
  
• Manage the bill of materials for the various pieces of equipment in the plant
  

Cost

• Recommend quality and operational efficiency improvements.
  
• Implement Lean manufacturing principles.
  
• Develop and implement productivity projects / programs to enhance processes.
  
• Drive waste out of operation.
  
• Ensure resources (labor, materials, and time) are utilized appropriately to meet production goals.
  
• Execute role redesign, as required.
  
• Prepare department budget and monitors expenditure of funds in budget.
  
• Gather input from and engage all team members in productivity initiatives.
  
• Manage the relationship and contracts with outside vendors (ex. HVAC, Mobile Equipment, etc.)
  

• Directly supervise up to 4 hourly maintenance technicians between all three shifts.
  

• High school diploma or GED required.
  
• Bachelor's degree, technical degree, or equivalent. In lieu of a degree, 5 years of experience in first-line supervision with an emphasis on process improvement, capital projects, or maintenance
  
• 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment
  
• Computer proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Kronos, and SAP or similar MRP system.
  

• Basic project management skills.
  
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and complete multiple competing tasks.
  
• Working knowledge of process improvement methods
  
• Demonstrated maintenance planning and scheduling.
  
• Basic understanding of maintenance technologies.
  
• Experience with maintaining a budget.
  

• Basic facilitation skills to coordinate group activities and planning meetings.
  
• Technical knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, DMAIC, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and 8-Step Problem-Solving
  

The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: sit for prolonged periods; repetitive motion of hands/wrists/fingers; concentrate and repeat the same physical or mental activities over and over; think analytically and be exact or highly accurate; make decisions such as to identify complex problems, develop options and implement solutions; work in a team; ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADAAA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards; pay attention to and remember details; communicate effectively including active listening to understand points being made, and asking appropriate questions and not interrupting inappropriately; speak to convey information effectively; write to communicate effectively as appropriate for the needs of the audience; read to understand work related documents; move between different physical locations within and between buildings; and push, pull, carry and lift in the normal course of travel.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Requires working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions with standard level of noise common to an office environment including office equipment and co-workers speaking to each other and on phones. Employees must wear personal protective equipment when entering the floor of manufacturing facilities based on each location's specific requirements.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person