Maintenance Supervisor

Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Inc; West Wareham (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Inc. in MA seeks an experienced Maintenance Supervisor to lead a multidisciplinary team in a heavy-industrial setting, ensuring compliance with safety and environmental requirements.

You will manage maintenance planning, scheduling, outages, and continuous-improvement initiatives while coordinating with procurement and site leadership. The ideal candidate has 7–10 years in industrial maintenance, strong knowledge of boilers, turbines, electrical andInstrumentation

Qualifications

• Minimum 7–10 years of maintenance experience in heavy-industrial environments or equivalent.
• Proven supervisory or managerial experience leading industrial maintenance personnel.
• Strong knowledge of boilers, steam turbines, rotating machinery, electrical systems, instrumentation, and plant equipment.
• Experience applying safety, environmental, and labor regulations.
• Experience with maintenance-management and plant systems (ALM, MMM, Experion, PeopleSoft).
• Strong understanding of work management, maintenance planning and scheduling, preventive and predictive maintenance, reliability, and QA.
• Experience planning and leading major scheduled and unscheduled maintenance outages.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a safety leader, ensuring maintenance work complies with policies and applicable regulations.
• Lead and coordinate daily maintenance activities while improving processes and reliability-centered programs.
• Supervise and develop a multidisciplinary maintenance team.
• Manage the work-order process: planning, scheduling, backlog monitoring, execution, closeout, quality assurance.
• Coordinate scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on plant equipment including boilers and turbines.
• Collaborate with Procurement on contractor management and sourcing.

Skills

Leadership

Safety leadership

Maintenance planning

Preventive maintenance

Root cause analysis

Vendor management

Communication

Team development

Outage management

Education

High school diploma

Tools

ALM

MMM

Experion

PeopleSoft

Excel

Job description

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.
• Strong understanding of work management, maintenance planning and scheduling, preventive and predictive maintenance, mechanical integrity, reliability, and quality assurance.
• Experience planning and leading major scheduled and unscheduled maintenance outages.
• Working knowledge of maintenance budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and financial management.
• Experience managing spare-parts inventory, contractors, purchasing activities, and maintenance materials.
• Experience writing maintenance procedures, contractor scopes of work, bid packages, work packages, and purchase requisitions.
• Demonstrated ability to identify root causes, implement sustainable corrective actions, and lead organizational change.
• Familiarity with Root Cause Failure Analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, and other reliability-improvement tools.
• Strong leadership, coaching, communication, organizational, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to manage changing priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced industrial environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and data-driven maintenance reporting.