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Title: Maintenance and Reliability Engineering Supervisor

Location: New Orleans, LA

Position Type: Direct Placement

Salary: $75000.00-$95000.00/Year

Job Purpose

This position will lead engineering and maintenance activities at two small plant locations to support business growth and is responsible for continuous improvement activities to achieve safety, quality, service, and cost performance expectations.

Essential duties and Success Outcomes

- Lead all hiring, training, and development of the three-person maintenance team to maximize growth, retention and productivity.
- Plan, direct and monitor preventative and corrective maintenance (i.e., repair activities) to ensure the company’s buildings, facilities, machinery, and production equipment operate reliably and efficiently. Success is measured through down time rate, PM completion, food safety audit results, and team productivity measured as work orders/tech, work order closure rate, and other maintenance KPIs.
- Develop a strong working knowledge of key production equipment and gain familiarity with equipment’s mechanical and electrical schematics.
- Coordinate maintenance resources and activities to optimize customer fulfillment by ensuring equipment efficiency, reliability, and Overall Equipment Effectiveness.
- Analyze performance reports to identify opportunities and lead corresponding improvements (e.g., line efficiency, machine reliability, maintenance productivity).
- Develop, train, implement, to improve Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) to sustain improvement projects.
- Champion food safety programs by participating on SQF, HACCP, Safety and Process Improvement teams.
- Enhance Preventive Maintenance (PM) program to maximize production equipment reliability. Measure through mean-time-between-failure (MTBF).
- Optimize parts room inventory strategy. Measure through mean-time-to-repair (MTTR), parts room organization, and total inventory valuation.
- Oversee contracted maintenance services such as forklift maintenance, lawncare.
- Evaluate production activities for equipment upgrades and/or automation opportunities. Measure through production productivity and capital budget.
- Evaluate and enhance facility infrastructure to support business operations. Examples include electrical load, plant compressed air, ventilation. Measure through reliability and food safety audit results.
- Participation in the development and execution of Capital Investment Plan.
- Interact with internal and external customers, vendors, and prospects in support of company initiatives.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

- Two-year technical education program. (Electronic/Electrical Technician preferred)
- Two to four years of maintenance experience.
- Ability to lead people and effective communication skills.
- Proven technical and analytical ability (e.g., trouble-shoot electrical, mechanical, and control systems).

Specific Job Competencies

- Drive for Results – Monthly scorecards will track progress and trends of maintenance program effectiveness, constantly achieving results, even under changing circumstances. Supports others in their activities with a can-do attitude and demonstrates a contagious and positive work ethic. Achieving results by proactively responding to the challenges in the organization and seeking opportunities to improve delivery of service and new ways of working. Has a track record of meeting and exceeding goals and expectations.
- Communicates Effectively – Performance reviews with direct reports every 2 months. Attentively listens to others and encourages the open expression of diverse ideas and opinions. Addresses conflict constructively and directly with the intention of seeking a win-win.
- Collaboration – Effective at building strong partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives and represents own interests while being fair to others and their areas. Partners with others to get work done and credits others for their contributions and accomplishments. Gains trust and support of others. Able to plan maintenance activities around production goals. Acquire enough knowledge on production operations to cover production manager during time off.
- Problem-solving – Performs and teaches analytical troubleshooting. Makes sense of complex information to effectively solve issues. Asks the right questions to accurately analyze situations and uncover root causes to problems. Analyzes data and evaluates alternative approaches and different options.
- Customer Focus – Identifies internal and external customer needs, sets service standards, and resolves issues. Enables alignment of everyone to make sure everyone is on board with project/program objectives. Focus efforts on delivering quality service to customers and coworkers. Understands the varied needs of the customers, connects them with appropriate resources and or solutions. Build relationships and networks with external customers, vendors, and suppliers.