Maintenance Shift Lead - 12-Hour Days, 4-on 4-off

Mars Incorporated; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision & Life

Short & Long Term Disability

401k match

Vacation & Holidays

Sick Pay

Maternity & Parental Leave

Annual bonus potential

Job summary

Mars Petcare is seeking a Maintenance Shift Manager for a Kansas City, MO plant. This full-time role leads a maintenance team across machining, equipment repair, and preventive maintenance under TPM/Lean environments.

The successful candidate will supervise staff, manage PM systems, control costs, and drive continuous improvement to meet safety, quality, and production goals in a 12-hour shift, 4-on-4-off schedule.

Qualifications

• Associates degree in a technical-related discipline or 10+ years of technical experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a technical discipline.
• 5+ years of recent technical leadership experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Experience with TPM/Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Supervise a maintenance team, including equipment breakdown repair, preventive maintenance, and management of maintenance costs.
• Ensure maintenance assignments are carried out safely and efficiently; troubleshoot plant equipment.
• Supervise maintenance staff directly.
• Set up, maintain PM systems, inspection routines, inventory control, job scheduling, staff training, and plant improvement plans.
• Control maintenance expenditure in a cost-effective way according to the site budget for site repairs, resources, direct labor, and overtime.
• Manage projects aimed at asset improvement, safety, and equipment reliability, utilizing process and project engineering skill sets.
• Identify and pursue continuous improvement opportunities to reduce manufacturing costs in the production areas.
• Leads the plant PM function by developing and managing PM implementation plans.

Skills

Technical leadership

Troubleshooting

Preventive maintenance

Team supervision

Education

Technical associate degree or higher

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or technical discipline

Job description

Mars Petcare is seeking a Maintenance Shift Manager for a Kansas City, MO plant. This full-time role leads a maintenance team across machining, equipment repair, and preventive maintenance under TPM/Lean environments.

The successful candidate will supervise staff, manage PM systems, control costs, and drive continuous improvement to meet safety, quality, and production goals in a 12-hour shift, 4-on-4-off schedule.