Bakery Maintenance & Reliability Supervisor (On-Site)

The J.M. Smucker Company; North Carolina; On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

The J. M. Smucker Company in Columbus, GA is seeking a Technical Supervisor to lead maintenance planning, scheduling, reliability, and storeroom activities.

You will drive equipment performance, reduce downtime, and optimize maintenance resources with a strong emphasis on safety, food quality, and GMP compliance. You will partner across bakery operations to strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance, ensure spare-parts readiness, and coach CMMS and operations tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required in a related field.
• Minimum five years of maintenance experience in a food-manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of maintenance planning, scheduling, preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Experience using CMMS and analyzing downtime trends and maintenance performance.
• Knowledge of bakery equipment, food safety, and GMPs.
• Ability to coordinate work with multiple priorities in a fast-paced setting.
• Proficiency in Excel and Word.

Responsibilities

• Build, prioritize, and maintain weekly and long-range maintenance schedules aligned with production needs and equipment reliability priorities.
• Plan maintenance work by coordinating labor, parts, tools, contractors, permits, and other required resources.
• Manage the maintenance backlog and work-order priorities within the CMMS.
• Coaching and development of the department on CMMS and Operations Excellence tools and systems.
• Lead preventive and predictive maintenance performance, including PM completion, schedule compliance, and program improvements.
• Lead storeroom operations, including inventory accuracy, cycle counting, receiving, organization, and critical spare-parts availability.
• Provide coaching and direction to the Storeroom Leader/Buyer and build team capability in CMMS and Operations Excellence tools.
• Analyze downtime, work-order, and asset-performance data to identify recurring failures and reliability improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate root-cause analysis and ensure corrective actions are assigned, completed, and sustained.
• Ensure that planned maintenance and reliability activities are performed with attention to food quality, safe processes, legal requirements, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as the Quality Assurance Key Element owner for equipment and maintenance requirements.
• Serve as a Safety Key Element owner.
• Attend and be an active participant during daily direction-setting meetings and weekly line scorecard reviews.
• Partner with Sanitation, Operations Excellence, Operations, and Maintenance to improve equipment performance, sanitation outcomes, asset utilization, and planned work execution.
• Coordinate contractors and vendors, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and within the defined scope.
• Track and communicate maintenance performance, including PM completion, backlog aging, planned versus unplanned work, downtime, schedule compliance, and inventory results.
• Support equipment installation, startup, capital projects, and other bakery improvement initiatives.
• Maintain accurate maintenance, reliability, inventory, and purchasing records while retaining an active floor presence to support safety, quality, and GMPs.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Maintenance scheduling

Predictive maintenance

Reliability-centered maintenance

Data analysis

CMMS usage

Excel & Word

Problem-solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Safety compliance

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

CMMS

SAP Plant Maintenance

IBM Maximo

Inventory management systems

Job description

The J. M. Smucker Company in Columbus, GA is seeking a Technical Supervisor to lead maintenance planning, scheduling, reliability, and storeroom activities.

You will drive equipment performance, reduce downtime, and optimize maintenance resources with a strong emphasis on safety, food quality, and GMP compliance. You will partner across bakery operations to strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance, ensure spare-parts readiness, and coach CMMS and operations tools.