Maintenance Supervisor

Lallemand; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Maintenance Supervisor at Lallemand’s Milwaukee site provides hands-on daily leadership for maintenance activities, guiding technicians and contractors to keep plant equipment running safely and reliably.

This role partners with Engineering and Production to plan preventive and corrective work, drives CMMS discipline, and supports asset handover and documentation to ensure continued manufacturing continuity.

Qualifications

• Experience leading maintenance teams at a manufacturing site.
• Strong knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Proven troubleshooting skills for mechanical, electrical, and control issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance technicians and contractors across plant equipment and facilities.
• Plan daily maintenance priorities with Production and Engineering.
• Ensure safety compliance and proper permits during maintenance work.
• Drive use of CMMS for work orders, hours, parts, and history.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Preventive maintenance

Troubleshooting

Safety compliance

Equipment reliability

Tools

CMMS

Job description

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Principales fonctions

The Maintenance Supervisor provides hands‑on daily leadership for maintenance activities at the Milwaukee manufacturing site. The role leads maintenance technicians and contractors, coordinates preventive and corrective work, supports safe and reliable plant operations, and strengthens maintenance systems, documentation, planning, and accountability. The supervisor works closely with Engineering, Production, Quality, Environmental Health and Safety, and site leadership to reduce downtime, improve equipment reliability, and ensure work is completed safely and to site standards.

Main Responisbilities

• Lead, coach, schedule, and support maintenance technicians and contractors across plant equipment, utilities, facilities, and infrastructure.
• Plan and coordinate daily maintenance priorities with Production and Engineering, balancing preventive work, repairs, breakdown response, and planned shutdown activities.
• Ensure work is performed safely and in compliance with site programs, including lockout/tagout, electrical safety, hot work, confined space, contractor safety, and required permits.
• Drive disciplined use of the computerized maintenance management system, including work requests, work orders, labor hours, parts usage, equipment history, and close‑out documentation.
• Build and execute preventive and predictive maintenance routines based on equipment criticality, manufacturer guidance, failure history, and operating needs.
• Lead troubleshooting and root‑cause problem solving for recurring mechanical, electrical, controls, utility, and facility issues; ensure corrective actions are completed and sustained.
• Coordinate external service providers, define work scope, verify safe work practices, monitor quality and progress, and confirm satisfactory completion.
• Maintain an organized, clean, and controlled maintenance shop, parts storage area, tools, technical files, and critical‑spares inventory using 5S principles.
• Support commissioning, equipment modifications, capital projects, and asset handover by ensuring maintenance documentation, spare parts, training, and preventive maintenance requirements are in place.
• Partner with Quality and Production to complete maintenance work in a manner that protects product safety, quality, and manufacturing continuity.
• Develop technician capability through coaching, job assignments, cross‑training, standard work, and clear performance expectations.
• Monitor maintenance performance and communicate priorities, risks, downtime, backlog, preventive maintenance completion, and resource needs to the Engineering & Maintenance Manager.
• Participate in site continuous improvement activities and identify practical opportunities to improve safety, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
• Support emergency response and participate in an on‑call or after‑hours rotation when required by site needs.

Organisation

Lallemand est une société canadienne privée fondée à la fin du XIXe siècle, qui développe, produit et commercialise des micro‑organismes pour divers marchés. Les bureaux administratifs de la société mère sont situés à Montréal, au Canada. Aujourd’hui, Lallemand emploie plus de 6 500 personnes travaillant dans plus de 45 pays sur 5 continents.

Lallemand Animal Nutrition s’engage à optimiser la performance et le bien‑être animal, avec des produits issus de fermentations et des services spécifiques. Nous développons, produisons et commercialisons des additifs d’ensilage, des probiotiques, des antioxydants et des dérivés de levures pour la nutrition animale, ainsi que des solutions microbiennes pour l’environnement animal. Nous servons toutes les filières: ruminant, porc, volaille, aqua­re ainsi que les équidés et animaux de compagnie. Définissant notre stratégie comme « issue du terrain, science à l’appui », nos solutions s’accompagnent d’importants moyens en R & D et support technique grâce une équipe d’experts sur le terrain. Nos solutions sont commercialisées dans plus de 80 pays via nos équipes de vente ou des distributeurs locaux.

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