Maintenance Supervisor

Bunge; Destrehan (LA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

401(k) Retirement Plan

Parental leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Generous PTO

Job summary

Bunge in Destrehan, Louisiana, is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor to lead the reliability and maintenance function, ensuring safe, efficient use of resources and high asset performance. The role reports to the maintenance manager and guides capacity planning, lifecycle cost, and best practices across maintenance activities.

You will drive a proactive, safety-focused culture, manage budgets, supervise teams, and oversee root cause analysis to prevent failures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science with 5+ years in reliability/maintenance focusing on electrical.
• Experience with standard corporate maintenance workflow processes.
• Proven Root Cause Failure Analysis leadership.
• Strong communication and Excel skills; CMMS/SAP PM/MM experience.

Responsibilities

• Promotes a culture of environmental, health, and safety excellence.
• Manages the maintenance and reliability budget to optimize spending and asset reliability.
• Ensures compliance with standard reliability and maintenance processes.
• Provides input on succession planning, workforce development and training.
• Manages critical spare parts inventory and leverages automated requisition processes.
• Contributes performance data for benchmarking and continuous improvement.
• Supports Management of Change to safely implement changes.
• Executes and improves the site's reliability strategy.
• Fosters a proactive maintenance culture with RCA to identify root causes.
• Supports tools and systems for preventive maintenance and work order planning.
• Maximizes maintenance efficiency through effective scheduling and kitting.

Skills

Reliability & maintenance leadership

Electrical focus

Communication skills

Excel skills

CMMS / SAP Plant Maintenance

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or science technology

Tools

SAP Plant Maintenance

Materials Management Modules

Job description

City : Destrehan State : Louisiana (US-LA) Country : United States (US) Requisition Number : 47300

A Day in the Life:

The primary role of the maintenance supervisor is to provide support the overall leadership and direction to the maintenance/reliability function. This position is responsible to the maintenance manager for the safe, effective and efficient use of all manpower, materials, parts and other resources under their control as well as providing capacity, asset reliability and best life cycle cost to the operation.

Under regular day to day guidance, the maintenance supervisor is responsible for implementing and managing the systems, maintenance organization structure, and processes necessary to achieve and sustain the maintenance/reliability mission. Through their efforts, a proactive culture which fosters open communication and trust that values reliability, efficiency and effective life cycle asset management is achieved.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Promotes and supports a strong culture of environmental, health, and safety excellence.
• Assists in managing the maintenance and reliability budget to optimize spending while achieving targeted production capacity and asset reliability goals.
• Ensures compliance with Bunge's standard reliability and maintenance work processes.
• Provides input to the Plant Reliability Excellence Manager regarding succession planning, workforce development, skills assessments, and training initiatives.
• Supports the management of critical spare parts inventory, balancing availability with inventory optimization and leveraging automated materials requisition processes where appropriate.
• Contributes performance data and insights for benchmarking against internal and external standards to identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Supports and participates in Management of Change (MOC) processes to ensure safe and effective implementation of operational and maintenance changes.
• Assists in the execution and continuous improvement of the site's reliability strategy.
• Fosters a reliability-focused culture that proactively addresses equipment failures by identifying, analyzing, and eliminating root causes through methodologies such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Supports the implementation of organizational structures, systems, tools, and technologies that drive a proactive and preventive maintenance approach.
• Ensures the effective utilization and integration of corporate standard work order planning, scheduling, and materials kitting processes to maximize maintenance efficiency and effectiveness.

Skills/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science technology, or equivalent work experience with 5+ years’ experience in reliability and/or maintenance positions with a focus on electrical required.
• Prior experience with standard corporate maintenance workflow processes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead Root Cause Failure Analysis reviews.
• Must possess a demonstrated high degree of tact in dealing with both plant staff and maintenance personnel.
• Strong verbal, written and listening communication skills required.
• Excellent administrative and analytical skills including intermediate to advanced knowledge of Excel.
• Demonstrated experience with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) or comparable system required, preferably experience in SAP Plant Maintenance and Materials Management Modules.

Benefits:

• Health Benefits – Offering choices so you can enroll in medical, dental and vision plans that meet your individual needs.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Investing in your future with an automatic 5% company contribution AND matching up to 4% of your contributions.
• Family Support – Supporting new and growing families by providing 6 weeks of 100% paid parental leave and fertility coverage.
• Tuition Reimbursement – after one year of service, eligible for tuition expenses reimbursement of up to $5000 per year.
• Time Off – Providing generous PTO based on professional work experience
  • 0 – 9 years: 25 days
  • 10 – 19 years: 30 days
  • 20+ years: 35 days

At Bunge (NYSE: BG), our purpose is to connect farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed and fuel to the world. As a premier agribusiness solutions provider, our team of :34,000 dedicated employees partner with farmers across the globe to move agricultural commodities from where they’re grown to where they’re needed—in faster, smarter, and more efficient ways. We are a world leader in grain origination, storage, distribution, oilseed processing and refining, offering a broad portfolio of plant-based oils, fats, and proteins. We work alongside our customers at both ends of the value chain to deliver quality products and develop tailored, innovative solutions that address evolving consumer needs. With 200+ years of experience and presence in over 50 countries, we are committed to strengthening global food security, advancing sustainability, and helping communities prosper where we operate. Bunge has its registered office in Geneva, Switzerland and its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Learn more at Bunge.com.

Every day our people exemplify these values, which represent Bunge at its core:

• We Are One Team – Collaborative, Respectful, Inclusive
• We Lead The Way – Agile, Empowered, Innovative
• We Do What’s Right – Safety, Sustainability, With Integrity

We value and invest in people who believe in our purpose and are excited to live it every day – people who are #ProudtoBeBunge