Maintenance Supervisor (Afternoon Shift)
Role Overview
Reports to the Maintenance and Engineering Manager and leads the Maintenance team.
Optimizes plant equipment performance through maintenance and continuous-improvement projects.
Coordinates facilities and maintenance planning and scheduling, develops staff skills, and supports Canadian operations as assigned.
Key Skills for This Role
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Position summary
Reports to the Maintenance and Engineering Manager and leads the Maintenance team.
Optimizes plant equipment performance through maintenance and continuous-improvement projects.
Coordinates facilities and maintenance planning and scheduling, develops staff skills, and supports Canadian operations as assigned.
Work arrangement
- Work designation is onsite.
- Shift is second shift.
Leadership and maintenance
- Coordinate and assign technical resources and priorities; monitor cGMP, safety, and housekeeping compliance.
- Develop technicians, training materials, and training sessions; communicate issues, root causes, and corrective actions across shifts.
- Control repair and maintenance spending and manage contractors' compliance with site safety rules.
- Ensure timely equipment setups, changeovers, and repairs; develop and maintain changeover sheets, startup checklists, and procedures.
- Develop equipment-specific operation, setup, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair training; train and certify technicians.
- Troubleshoot plant equipment, investigate failures, implement corrective actions, and maintain spare-parts inventory.
- Source replacement components and resolve failures in boilers, air compressors, heat exchangers, dust collectors, vacuum systems, and other support equipment.
- Troubleshoot pneumatic and hydraulic systems, drives, PLC/HMI, photo sensors, vision systems, and thermal printers.
- Lead operational excellence initiatives and improve preventive maintenance, equipment reliability, and efficiency.
- Support new equipment specifications, factory acceptance testing, commissioning, startup, and installation.
- Identify safety concerns, training needs, and hazards; follow safety procedures and participate in risk assessments and PSRs.
Education and experience
- A minimum of 3–5 years of supervisory experience.
- Experience in food manufacturing facilities.
- Engineering degree or diploma, or equivalent maintenance experience.
- Millwright certification or electrical license is an asset.
- Familiarity with processing and packaging equipment.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and negotiating skills; broad engineering and/or maintenance background.
Shift
- Afternoon shift; the source identifies this as second shift.
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