Maintenance Supervisor

velux; Aspen Heights (SC); On-site; USD 89,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

The VELUX Group in the United States is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor to lead a manufacturing maintenance team, ensuring safe, reliable operation of assets and disciplined maintenance execution. You will focus on equipment reliability, problem solving, and continuous improvement.

Work schedule is 6:00 am - 4:30 pm (Mon–Thu). This role emphasizes safety, leadership, planning, and cross‑functional collaboration with Engineering and Production to minimize downtime and improve OEE.

Qualifications

• Must lead a maintenance team with focus on safety, reliability and continuous improvement.
• Experience solving technical problems and improving asset reliability.
• Ability to plan, schedule, and manage maintenance activities across production.

Responsibilities

• Champion a safety-first culture and reinforce safe work practices.
• Provide daily leadership and development for maintenance technicians.
• Lead preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance to minimize downtime.
• Monitor reliability metrics and drive RCAs for recurring failures.
• Coordinate planned downtime with Production and Engineering.
• Serve as primary maintenance contact for site functions and cross‑location teams.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Safety leadership

Problem solving

Planning & scheduling

Team development

Tools

Maintenance management system

Job description

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the sustainable indoor living industry, we enable those who live, work and play under the roof transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air. The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we are able to create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations. Alongside the rest of our values, "courage" and "mutual respect" define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.

The primary purpose of this position is to lead and develop the maintenance team while ensuring safe, reliable, cost-effective operation of manufacturing assets through disciplined maintenance execution, technical problem solving, equipment reliability improvement, and continuous improvement.

Standard Work Schedule: 6:00 am - 4:30 pm (Monday - Thursday)

Monthly Salary Range: $8018 - $10,023

Primary Responsibilities

Health, Safety, and Environmental Culture

• Champion a strong safety-first culture.
• Ensure maintenance activities are performed in accordance with company safety requirements, established technical standards, procedures, and control plans.
• Reinforce safe work practices and ensure employees follow applicable lockout/tagout, electrical safety, machine safety, and other required procedures.
• Conduct workplace inspections, maintenance self-audits, and other compliance activities.
• Ensure identified maintenance deficiencies and corrective actions are addressed in a timely manner.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records and documentation required for internal and external compliance.

People Leadership and Team Development

• Provide daily leadership, direction, coaching, and support to maintenance technicians and other assigned employees.
• Establish clear expectations for safety, quality, productivity, attendance, teamwork, and performance.
• Assign and prioritize maintenance work based on production requirements, equipment criticality, safety, and business needs.
• Develop the technical capabilities of maintenance employees through coaching, cross-training, structured technical training, and knowledge sharing.
• Conduct performance discussions and provide timely feedback to employees.
• Promote accountability, teamwork, mutual respect, and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Ensure appropriate maintenance coverage to support manufacturing operations.

Maintenance Execution and Equipment Reliability

• Lead the execution of preventive, predictive, planned, and corrective maintenance activities.
• Ensure production assets, utilities, facilities, and supporting infrastructure are maintained to achieve reliable performance and minimize unplanned downtime.
• Monitor maintenance performance and take corrective action when performance deviates from established standards.
• Coordinate troubleshooting and response to equipment breakdowns and recurring equipment issues.
• Ensure maintenance work is properly planned, documented, completed, and closed in the site's maintenance management system.
• Partner with production to coordinate planned downtime and maintenance activities while minimizing disruption to operations.

Reliability and Continuous Improvement

• Monitor and improve key maintenance and reliability measures, including Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), maintenance cost, and equipment downtime.
• Lead or facilitate root cause analysis for significant or recurring equipment failures and ensure corrective actions are implemented and sustained.
• Identify opportunities to improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Support implementation and validation of new maintenance technologies, tools, equipment, and systems.
• Partner with Engineering, Production, and Technical Services on equipment modifications, capital projects, and reliability improvements.
• Use maintenance data and equipment history to identify trends and prioritize improvement opportunities.

Planning, Systems and Performance Managemen t

• Review daily and weekly maintenance priorities and allocate available resources accordingly.
• Ensure timely and accurate entry of maintenance activities and performance data into applicable maintenance and reporting systems.
• Monitor spare parts, contractor support, and other maintenance resources to support equipment availability.
• Assist in controlling maintenance expenses and identifying opportunities to reduce cost without compromising safety or reliability.
• Provide maintenance performance updates to site leadership and recommend actions when performance is below target.

Cross-Functional and Technical Support

• Serve as a primary maintenance contact for Production, Engineering, Technical Services, and other site functions.
• Collaborate with divisional Technical Services and other manufacturing locations to share techn