Maintenance Supervisor

Printpack Inc; Rhinelander (WI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k)

Matching gifts

Educational assistance

Service awards

Job summary

Printpack seeks a Maintenance Supervisor to lead and develop a team of maintenance associates for safe, overnight plant operations in Rhinelander, WI. This role emphasizes safety compliance, preventive maintenance, and driving equipment reliability and continuous improvement to support production needs.

The ideal candidate has strong technical troubleshooting, leadership experience, and the ability to align maintenance efforts with regulatory standards and company goals.

Qualifications

• Maintenance experience in manufacturing environments.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
• Strong leadership and development of maintenance team members.

Responsibilities

• Oversee maintenance associates and promote safe, engaged work culture.
• Lead hazard identification, risk assessments, and compliance with policies.
• Manage work orders, on-time completion, and preventive maintenance programs.
• Direct plant maintenance projects while coordinating with contractors and vendors.

Skills

Industrial electronics

PLC knowledge

Hydraulics & pneumatics

Leadership

Safety compliance

Tools

ERP software

Microsoft Office

Job description

Printpack, a leading manufacturer in plastics packaging, is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor for their facility located in Rhinelander, WI. The Maintenance Supervisor leads and develops a team of maintenance associates to ensure safe, reliable overnight plant operations. This role focuses on driving safety compliance, managing preventive maintenance programs, and coordinating maintenance projects while maintaining regulatory standards. The position requires strong technical troubleshooting skills, leadership experience, and the ability to support production requirements through equipment reliability initiatives and continuous improvement efforts

Primary Responsibilities:

• Oversee maintenance associates in a manner that promotes engagement, where individuals are valued and empowered
• Demonstrate and lead associates in a commitment to safe behavior and to making the plant a safer place to work.
• Support and drive hazard identification, risk assessments, risk control efforts and maintain compliance on all corporate policies and procedures
• Perform department leadership duties such as timekeeping, performance reviews, discipline, and training and development activities
• Coordinate and direct plant maintenance projects, and ensure execution is within the Federal and State fire, safety and environmental regulations and food safety/security procedures
• Increase equipment reliability through ownership of continuous improvement and preventive maintenance
• Ensure completion of and tracking of all work orders promptly, with a high priority on safety work orders
• Communicate with the purchasing group to ensure adequate inventory of MRO spare parts
• Supply technical knowledge to help troubleshoot problems
• Work to support production requirements to reduce waste and improve uptime, quality, EFM and safety
• Own and ensure compliance to 5S in the department
• Interface with outside contractors and vendors

Minimum Requirements:

• Maintenance experience in manufacturing or a similar environment
• Ability to work well under pressure and handle multiple priorities
• Positive attitude and ability to adapt to varying work challenges and priorities
• Above-average knowledge of Industrial Electronics, PLC's, Heat Controls, Hydraulics and Pneumatics.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with and implementing Lean Manufacturing principles, including preventative maintenance, Total Productive Maintenance, and Predictive Maintenance
• Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software for preventative maintenance, purchase requisitions, work order tracking and inventory management, along with Microsoft Office Suite software
• Plant or Process Engineering Experience
• Knowledge of Converting and Blown Film processes
• Working knowledge of electrical and mechanical concepts.

Printpack is proudly an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment. Embracing diversity enhances our work culture and is vital to our success. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital/parental status, genetic information, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, marital status, military or veteran status or affiliation, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.

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Printpack is one of the most innovative and progressive packaging companies in the world and it embodies the employee-centric values established by its founder, J. Erskine Love Jr. in 1956. Printpack’s competition can buy the same equipment and materials, but the difference has always been the people who walk their plant floors and stroll through their hallways. There is no question that Printpack’s associates are a major factor in why their customers have faithfully relied on the Printpack level of service for over 60 years.

Printpack offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to promote wellness and provide protection for its associates and their families.

• medical coverage
• dental coverage
• life insurance
• short-term and long-term disability
• 401(k)
• matching gift program
• employee assistance programs
• educational assistance
• service awards

The Printpack Statement of Philosophy reflects on a commitment to their associates and a belief that they should “provide opportunities for personal fulfillment and growth commensurate with each individual’s highest level of competence and degree of contribution.”

As an equal opportunity employer, Printpack remains focused on creating an inclusive environment. One that embraces diversity as an enhancement to their work culture and a vital contributor to their success.

Printpack is “Converting Vision into Value” for their associates, their community, their customers, and hopefully…for you.