Job Details
Maintenance Supervisor
Overview
This role reports directly to the Maintenance, Engineering and Reliability Manager and is responsible for leading/directing a multiple skilled, flexible work team to ensure; safe permit compliant, efficient and effective maintenance of operational equipment at a twenty-four hour/day continuously operated facility.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead a maintenance team and ensure adherence to safe and environmentally correct work practices, a proactive approach to teamwork, continuous improvement and cost reduction.
- Accountable for safety goals and Critical Success Factors for safety performance by active participation and leadership in solving safety issues and coordinating safety and housekeeping programs
- Plan as required, coordinate and monitor the activities of maintenance team to ensure production targets, maintenance goals, and quality specifications are met safely and efficiently in accordance to company/plant polices procedures and work instructions.
- Coordinate Maintenance activities with Production Maintenance Coordinator, Maintenance Planner, Maintenance Superintendent and other personnel as appropriate.
- Manage the performance and development of personnel through on-going feedback, annual performance reviews, coaching, counseling, and recognition.
- Ensure group obtains business knowledge required to work effectively.
- Monitor cost to help ensure compliance with budgets. Report potential variances.
- Maintain and encourage collaborative resolutions and communications of work issues among employees, departments and various work groups.
- Establish and share maintenance best practices.
- Co-ordinate and supervise the work of contractors.
- Complete reports and documentation as required.
- Perform other duties as required or assigned.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma/GED
- 3-5 years of experience in plant maintenance experience
- 2-3 years of experience of supervisory experience preferably in a maintenance environment
- Strong knowledge of work management processes, labor estimating and resource balancing
- Strong working knowledge of plant / facilities equipment
- Strong understanding of skilled crafts such a mechanical, piping, electrical and instrumentation
- Strong computer and communication skills
- Leadership Competency requirements: Demonstrate a working proficiency level in the Competencies of Driving Improvement in Others, Driving and Managing Teamwork, and Communication Effectiveness.
- Core Competency requirements: Customer Orientation, Results Orientation, Technological Orientation, Teamwork
- Strong verbal and written skills.
- Coaching, meeting management and facilitation skills.
- Lead by example/team involvement.
- Safety Awareness, PPE and safe practices knowledge.
Preferred Qualifications
- 1-3 years' experience with CMMS systems, preferably SAP
- Experience in a union environment
- Mechanical Journeyman's Card or License
- Basic Chemistry and Physics
- Basic Welding Skills
- Process Safety Management (PSM) familiarity
- Demonstrated experience around key Working Relationships and Accountabilities with: Production, Maintenance, Engineering Departments and Supervision of vendors and outside contracts.
- Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written.
Working Requirements
- Possible afternoon or rotating shift schedule.
- Must be able to come in on the off shifts as needed.
- This is a salary exempt position with on call responsibilities.
- Weekend duty and shift work is required as needed.
- Travel as required 10% or less.
- This position may be called at home for advice and information as required to support the needs of the plant.
Why Synthomer?
We are ambitious!
We have grown significantly - both organically and inorganically. We are a FTSE 250 listed company, 22% of our revenue comes from newly commercialized products, and we're recognized in the top-quartile for chemicals manufacturing safety.
We believe in high challenge, high support!
We are keen to let you contribute in real roles from day 1. We expect a lot, but offer a lot, too. This includes onboarding, induction and learning events, networking opportunities, mentoring and personal development planning. So, be up for an inspiring long-term career adventure.
We personalize our approach to development!
At Synthomer, you won't find generic career tracks or development programs but rather a one-size-fits-one approach to employee development. We'll partner with you to ensure you have the right experiences that build your capabilities and accelerate your career growth.