Maintenance Supervisor

Rock Entertainment Group; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Pregis Performance Flexibles seeks a maintenance supervisor to ensure safety and world-class equipment reliability in a high-volume production setting. You will lead a small team, direct daily activities, and coordinate with engineering and vendors to sustain operations.

Ideal candidates have 8–15 years on industrial maintenance, strong PLC and drive-system skills, and proven leadership. This role requires standing, lifting, and overtime with multiple shifts.

Qualifications

• Advanced mechanical/technical aptitude required.
• Proficient in electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic repair.
• Experience with AC/DC vector and servo drive systems.
• PLC maintenance and programming is pivotal.
• Able to read mechanical, piping and electrical drawings.
• Experience leading a technical team (3–5 members).
• Strong verbal and written communication with a customer-service attitude.
• Familiarity with very high-volume production environments.
• Ability to fabricate parts and follow blueprints.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain an environment where safety is a high priority.
• Maintain and sustain equipment and facilities to meet world-class service levels via preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Direct day-to-day activities of team members.
• Identify key issues in sustained production, prioritize and allocate resources to improve uptime.
• Drive root cause problem solving and cost-saving ideas.
• Lead Predictive maintenance measures and audit work orders in Emaint.
• Measure team and self against KPI's weekly and adjust as needed.
• Develop training plans to improve technician skills.
• Operate and fabricate parts when needed; read blueprints for custom parts.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve production output and coordinate with vendors.

Skills

Mechanical aptitude

Electrical repair

Hydraulic and pneumatic

AC/DC vector and servo drives

PLC maintenance

Welding and machining

Reading drawings

Team leadership

Communication

High-volume production

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

8–15 years industrial maintenance experience

Job description

Position Summary

• Create and maintain an environment where safety is a high priority.
• Responsible for maintaining and sustaining equipment and facilities to meet world class service levels, using preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Responsible for directing day-to-day activities of team members.
• Identify key issues in sustained production, prioritize and assign resources to improve equipment uptime.
• Actively drive for root cause problem solving and cost saving ideas.
• Actively lead Predictive measures
• Audit completed work orders and closes completed work orders in Emaint.
• Measure team and self to KPI's weekly and make adjustments on the fly to get the most from resources
• Assess and develop training plans that will improve the Maintenance Technicians individual and group skill sets.
• Ability to fabricate parts when needed.
• Ability to follow blueprints to create unique parts from engineering.
• Experience in management i.e.; lead man, supervisor and manager roles leading teams of 3-5 members.

Skills

• Advanced technical knowledge. Possess strong mechanical aptitude.
• Must be proficient in electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatics repair and troubleshooting.
• Must be able to troubleshoot and repair problems with AC, DC, vector and servo drive systems.
• Experience with PLC Maintenance and programming is vital.
• Basic welding and machining skills are helpful.
• Must be able to read, sketch and understand mechanical, piping and electrical drawings.
• Must be able to successfully interact and communicate with others and do so with a customer service attitude
• Must be willing to update skill set as needed.
• Experience directly leading a technical team
• A strong verbal and written communication skill is a must along with good interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity of very high-volume production environment.
• Experience in directing team members on different tasks.

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Experience will be taken into consideration.
• A minimum of 8-15 years' experience on an industrial maintenance team.

Essential Functions

• Able to stand for long periods of time; as much as up to 12 hours.
• Bending, climb ladders, and able to lift weights of 60 lbs.
• Involved with decision making for new hires.
• Must be able to operate Powered Industrial Equipment such as forklifts, lathes, mill, welders' other various maintenance equipment.
• Work closely with engineering to improve the machines production output.
• Interact with contractors, vendors to ensure that work is completed at a high quality.
• Involvement with our safety program and enforce all safety rules throughout the plant.
• Must be able to operate a variety of power tools.
• This position must be able to work in a wide range of environmental conditions. Use all required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at all required times and follow all safety rules.
• Available to work overtime as needed with short notice. Open to all shifts.
• Able to accurately read a variety of measuring devices.
• The ability to speak and understand English in a manner that is sufficient for effective communication with the management team.

Health & Safety

Pregis Performance Flexibles values its people and is committed to providing and maintaining a safe a healthy work environment. All employees must be responsible for knowing and complying with safety policies and regulations.

Working safely and wearing required PPE is a condition of employment and not an option.