Maintenance Supervisor (Individually Quick Frozen)

The Maintenance Supervisor oversees the entire M-F (12a- 8a) Frost facility and assets maintenance activities within his/her area of responsibility.

The Maintenance Supervisor will be directly responsible of the Maintenance Leadership of a group of Technicians, assigned assets in the factory along with reviewing and defining the maintenance policies to be followed for each kind of asset. This includes all maintenance activities as preventive, predictive, corrective or new installations. Defining the needed resources (people, spare parts, contractors, systems) and planning as well as the supervision of processes, people and equipment, in order to carry out the defined maintenance tasks and achieving the better productivity rates in each section (OEEs, yields, production quantity), with the minimum cost and in compliance with the applicable legal and EH&S requirements, everything in a multi shift, 24/7 operation. Responsibility includes managing all maintenance requirements with an emphasis on safety, quality, cost, company policy. Accountable for executing business plans from department goals/objectives to meet key performance indicators (KPI) and to achieve safety, quality, value and cost results.

Key Responsibilities:

Define the maintenance policy and criteria to be followed for all the different assets of the plant, with the approval of the Plan manager including:

• Type of maintenance tasks that are adequate for the goals to achieve: Preventive, predictive, corrective, new installations and autonomous maintenance
• Tasks to be carried out for each type of maintenance, with the support of the production managers
• Planning of the maintenance tasks: Needed resources and frequency
• Define acceptance criteria for maintenance tasks and continuous review of their adequacy
• Follow up of the compliance and the results
• Define and implement corrective actions. Continuous improvement

Plans and schedules the staffing, supplies and equipment to meet required key performance indicators (KPI) as OEEs, yields, availability of the machinery, cost, lifetime of the equipment and production volume:

• Troubleshoots, identifies and addresses work processes and equipment root causes
• Ensures compliance with all internal and external procedures and regulations, including HACCP, GMPs and applicable FDA regulations
• Be able to develop a continuous improvement culture

People: Builds alignment between principles and employees’ performance

• Plans, identifies and implements leadership training, employee development, and performance management
• Resolve labor concerns with the Plant Manager/Maintenance Manager
• Identifies and addresses employment and HR issues

Financial:* Manages resources, controls resource costs in line with operating budget*

• Responsible for the overall maintenance operating budget
• Define the spare parts policy to be followed
• Operates and adheres to budget standards regarding staffing, overtime costs and materials usage
• Tracks assigned area actuals to budget; Explains variances to plan
• Identifies and executes corrective actions in case of deviations

Strategic: Identifies and implements improvement opportunities and resolves problems

• Analyzes processes, equipment and performance trends across designated shift(s); establish standards and system to monitor results
• Determines actions required to make root cause improvements; Ensures implementation of said actions

Education -

• College degree preferred – B.S. Food Science, Management or related field

Experience -

• 5 - 10 years production experience in the food industry with minimum four years supervisory experience preferred
• Strong technical background with experience in processing IQF & frozen food products
• Leadership in process control and strong mechanical knowledge of processing, packaging and warehousing equipment
• Strong knowledge of FDA/USDA regulations, particularly frozen regulations

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities -

• Technical skills to perform in area of specialty
• Understands and able to perform and troubleshoot all activity and equipment in area of responsibilities
• Understands Lean manufacturing principles and practices
• Able to rapidly adjust to changing priorities as necessary
• Must be able to withstand working in an overall temperature range of -40F to +100F
• Perform effective problem solving and team building
• Knowledge and understanding of GFSI requirements
• Effectively prepare and interpret written communications and reports
• Knowledge and use of all company software applications and automated systems
• Care and use of required personal protection equipment
• Able to provide overtime coverage in absence of team member
• Must be able to withstand working in an overall temperature range of -40F to +100F