Maintenance Supervisor

reworld; Haverhill (MA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Reworld is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor to lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for ensuring safe, reliable, and cost-efficient plant operations. The role oversees preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance, with ownership of the long-term maintenance plan and budgeting.

You will coordinate a team of Mechanics, Welders, Electrical & Instrumentation Technicians, and Storekeepers, collaborating with Operations, Engineering, EHS, and Procurement to improve uptime and safety across

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 7–10 years maintenance experience in heavy- industrial environments.
• Proven supervisory experience leading maintenance teams.
• Knowledge of boilers, turbines, electrical and instrumentation systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a safety leader ensuring maintenance work complies with safety and regulatory requirements.
• Lead daily maintenance activities, improving processes and reliability programs.
• Supervise a multidisciplinary maintenance team including Mechanics, Welders, and Technicians.
• Manage work-order planning, scheduling, backlog monitoring, and quality assurance.
• Coordinate scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on boilers and plant equipment.
• Develop and maintain procedures, analyses, and regulatory documentation.
• Investigate failures and apply root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Lead continuous-improvement efforts using Lean and 5S practices.
• Communicate risks, priorities, and performance to site leadership.
• Support workforce planning, recruitment, and employee development.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Industrial maintenance

Preventive & predictive maintenance

Root cause analysis

Safety leadership

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

ALM

MMM

Experion

PeopleSoft

Job description

Who we are

For more than 40 years, Reworld has been a leader in sustainable waste solutions, providing our customers with innovative solutions that help them achieve carbon-negative outcomes.

Our Vision

Reworld is leading the charge to a carbon-negative future through revolutionary sustainable materials management solutions that reduce, reuse, recycle and reimagine waste for the benefit of society and the environment.

Our Business

Reworld partners with businesses by offering cutting-edge engineering and innovative solutions, to help customers reduce, reuse, recycle and recover value from waste streams and meet or exceed their sustainability goals.

Our Value

Reworld's differentiator comes from our ecosystem of technology, facilities and partnerships, trusted by the world's largest organizations to reimagine waste management for a smarter, more sustainable world.

About the role

Reporting to the Facility Manager, the Maintenance Supervisor provides hands‑on leadership and direction to the site maintenance team, ensuring work is planned, prioritized, budgeted, and executed safely, efficiently, and cost‑effectively. This role supports reliable plant operations through strong maintenance practices, effective workforce leadership, and disciplined execution of preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance.

This is an opportunity to lead a skilled, multidisciplinary maintenance team and directly impact plant safety, equipment reliability, operational performance, and continuous improvement. The Maintenance Supervisor will have meaningful ownership of maintenance strategy, outage execution, team development, contractor coordination, and reliability initiatives in a complex industrial environment.

The Maintenance Supervisor will lead Mechanics, Welders, Electrical & Instrumentation Technicians, and Storekeepers while working closely with Operations, Engineering, Environmental Health and Safety, Procurement, Quality, and site leadership. The role oversees the Long‑Term Maintenance Plan, CMMS and work‑order processes, maintenance planning and scheduling, outage execution, spare‑parts inventory, budgeting, contractor management, mechanical integrity, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement across boilers, turbines, rotating machinery, electrical and instrumentation systems, and associated plant equipment.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a safety leader, ensuring maintenance work complies with company policies and applicable federal, state, and local safety and environmental requirements, including NERC, NFPA, and National Electrical Code standards.
• Lead and coordinate daily maintenance activities while improving maintenance processes, system utilization, and preventive, predictive, and reliability‑centered maintenance programs.
• Supervise, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary maintenance team, including Mechanics, Welders, Electrical & Instrumentation Technicians, and Storekeepers.
• Manage the maintenance work‑order process, including planning, scheduling, backlog monitoring, prioritization, execution, closeout, and quality assurance.
• Coordinate scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on boilers, auxiliary, and associated plant equipment.
• Partner with Procurement on contractor management and strategic sourcing, including scopes of work, bid packages, purchase requisitions, and vendor performance.
• Develop, implement, and maintain maintenance procedures, Job Safety Analyses, and regulatory‑compliance documentation.
• Investigate equipment failures and implement sustainable corrective actions using Root Cause Failure Analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, and other reliability methods.
• Lead continuous‑improvement initiatives using Lean, 5S, and related operational‑excellence practices to improve safety, reliability, productivity, and cost performance.
• Communicate equipment risks, maintenance priorities, reliability strategies, and performance results to operators, engineers, quality personnel, and site leadership.
• Support workforce planning, recruitment, performance management, coaching, employee development, and succession planning.
• Provide support for rotating‑shift, weekend, extended‑hour, outage, and on‑call employees as business needs require.

Qualifications & Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Minimum of 7-10 years of maintenance experience in power generation, manufacturing, chemical processing, or a comparable heavy‑industrial environment; thermomechanical treatment facility experience is preferred.
• Proven supervisory or managerial experience leading industrial maintenance personnel.
• Strong knowledge of boilers, steam turbines, rotating machinery, electrical systems, instrumentation, and associated plant equipment.
• Experience in applying applicable safety, environmental, and labor laws and regulations.
• Experience with maintenance‑management and plant systems such as ALM, MMM, Experion, PeopleSoft, or comparable platforms.
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