Maintenance Supervisor

HOUSTON APARTMENT FOUNDATION; El Paso (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Eagle Foods in El Paso, TX seeks a Maintenance Supervisor to oversee maintenance of a highly automated packaging facility. You will lead maintenance activities, hire and train staff, and drive preventive maintenance programs to maximize uptime.

Responsibilities include managing CMMS records, coordinating with contractors, and ensuring safety, sanitation, and regulatory compliance across operations. 7+ years in plant maintenance and leadership required.

Qualifications

• 7 years+ experience in plant maintenance with emphasis in Maintenance Supervising.
• Experience supervising maintenance technicians and contractor staff.
• Familiar with industrial equipment, safety practices, and office software.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance activities in a highly automated food facility.
• Hire, train and oversee maintenance personnel.
• Plan PM and preventive maintenance; manage CMMS records.
• Ensure safety, environmental and food safety compliance.
• Coordinate with contractors; manage inventory/tools.

Skills

Leadership

Team supervision

Safety awareness

Tools

AutoCAD

Rockwell Automation

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Overview

At Eagle Foods we are builders. We are builders of brands, categories, and people. Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years. Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products. As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world. Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad. Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

Responsibilities

The Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for supervision of maintenance activities within a highly automated food processing facility, responsible for packaging machinery, associated equipment and utilities. Hire, train and oversee workers engaged in setting up, installing, and maintaining machinery and equipment and in fabrication of parts. Determine maintenance procedures in accordance with company operating policies and procedures. Maximize efficiency and availability of packaging equipment. Ensure compliance with safety, environmental sanitation, and applicable requirements.

Job Description Summary:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• PM development: Creates and implements preventive maintenance (PM) and works towards predictive maintenance culture optimizing maintenance routines for equipment and utilities.


• PM Scheduling: Schedule maintenance activities (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.,) including service requests and preventive/corrective maintenance, assigns and distributes the work to the appropriate supervisor or maintenance lead, reviews scope and frequency of assignments with the maintenance lead and makes changes where required.


• Manages and updates CMMS information related to maintenance (PM task revisions, assets, bill of materials, etc.) and maintains an accurate asset registry within the CMMS.


• Attends daily morning shift hand-over maintenance meetings to review the status of outstanding issues from previous shift.


• PM supervision & PM Auditing: Monitor PMs assuring execution on a timely manner and audits them on a periodic basis.


• Keeps track of maintenance KPIs and reports it to the maintenance manager.


• Supervise & Train: Oversee maintenance technicians, assist workers in diagnosing malfunctions in equipment, understand all the systems within the facility well enough to train and supervise the work of others.


• Prepares and manages time schedule for all maintenance groups


• Actively executes assigned projects and day-to-day maintenance work as necessary


• Identifies non-value-added elements and improves the operation by making changes to existing process/equipment.


• Assist in handling emergency situations or after-hours calls for repair and maintenance


• Act as a back for maintenance manager


• Establish schedules and methods for providing facility maintenance services; identify resource needs.


• Monitor and control supplies for equipment and utilities, order supplies and tools as necessary.


• Participate in the development of goals and objectives as well as policies and procedures; ensure implementation.


• Attend and participate in professional group meetings; maintain awareness of new trends and developments in the field of facility maintenance; incorporate new developments as appropriate into programs.


• Performs root cause failure analysis of breakdowns triggering CAPA/RCA, owns and participates in countermeasure development and implementation.


• Make recommendations for changes and improvements to existing standards, policies, and procedures.


• Prepares cost estimates for equipment modifications.


• Coordinates contractors providing contract services.


• Maintain the inventory of tools and common-use equipment.


• Review staffing needs with appropriate management staff; allocate resources accordingly.


• Ensure that plant safety rules are being followed and respected by direct-report employees and other plant employees.


• Identify shutdown projects, plan and allocate resources, manage execution of work and follow up with documentation and integration of equipment into established procedures.


• Evaluate employee performance to ensure quality and compliance with Operations and Quality Department’s standards.


• Assist employees with related administrative and human resources issues.


• Maintains time and attendance records and other necessary documentation.


• Investigate accidents and near-miss events, prepare follow-up reports.


• Follows all Good Manufacturing Practices as stated within the policy


• Follows all Safety rules & procedures by working safely and ensuring safety of others


• Follows all food safety procedures


• Follows all environmental protocols as applicable


• Follows all sanitation procedures and work instructions


• Performs other duties as required and assigned

Qualifications

Qualifications & Competencies

• Work experience in relevant areas


• 7 years+ experience in plant maintenance with emphasis in Maintenance Supervising. Experience in a food processing environment a plus.


• Experience in the supervision of Maintenance Technicians and management of contractor employees.


• Must be familiar with materials, methods, terminology, equipment and tools used in the maintenance of industrial equipment.


• Equipment, tools and materials used in the maintenance of automated machinery.


• Principles and practices of safety management.


• Office procedures, methods, and equipment including computers and applicable software applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, and databases.


• Familiar with pertinent local, state and federal laws, ordinances, codes, and rules.


• Read and understand construction drawings, plans and specifications.


• Organize, implement and direct maintenance operations and activities.


• Supervise, train and evaluate assigned staff.


• Interpret and explain pertinent department policies and procedures.


• Develop cost estimates for supplies and equipment.


• Demonstrate tact and diplomacy with fellow employees and the public.


• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.


• Experience with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint; AutoCAD and Rockwell Automation software. WMS (M+) experience a plus.


• Requires good written and oral communication skills to effectively interact with all levels of plant employees.