Maintenance Supervisor - 2nd Shift

Stellar Industries Inc; Garner (IA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellar Industries Inc. is seeking a Supervisory Maintenance Technician to lead the on-shift maintenance team in a manufacturing setting.

You will oversee preventive maintenance, prioritize urgent tasks, and drive reliability improvements while ensuring safety, quality, and efficient operations. The role requires hands-on mechanical skills, blueprint reading, and strong leadership to train staff and coordinate with production.

Qualifications

• Experience supervising maintenance teams in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to read blueprints and technical drawings relevant to maintenance work.
• Proven track record of leading preventive maintenance and reducing downtime.
• Strong training and coaching skills for staff development.
• Excellent communication and teamwork to align maintenance with production goals.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage maintenance operations during the assigned shift.
• Enforce safety rules and ensure proper use of tools and equipment.
• Provide clear shift handoff reports and coordinate with next shift leadership.
• Lead maintenance projects and coordinate with planners and production leaders.
• Assist with purchasing parts and supplier communication as needed.
• Attend workshops to improve leadership skills and team performance.

Skills

Leadership

Maintenance supervision

Blueprint reading

Mechanical skills

Team training

Paylocity

Tools

Paylocity

Job description

About this position

Description:

Summary: Lead the maintenance technicians assigned to execute general and preventative maintenance schedules. Direct day-today activities of the technicians. Ensure productivity, quality, and safety levels meet the company goals for the maintenance team. Preparation for job duties, as well as training maintenance techs on how to properly perform the job duties and other work as directed by the Maintenance Manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities as a supervisor include the following:

• Independently manages maintenance operations during assigned shift.
• Hold technicians accountable for performing all aspects of the Maintenance Technician’s role, including teamwork, attendance and job execution.
• Owns shift-level equipment reliability and unplanned downtime reduction.
• Sets the standard for professionalism, urgency and work ethic for the maintenance team.
• Leads root cause analysis on repeat failures.
• Reviews work planning and scheduling with the planner – determine accuracy of time needed, part requirements.
• Accountable for quality execution of preventative maintenance, including proper documentation and escalation of identified issues.
• Sets daily priorities for the maintenance team.
• Works closely with production leadership to align maintenance priorities with operational needs.
• Provides clear and detailed shift report handoff to 1st shift maintenance leadership, including open issues, completed work and risk.
• Enforces compliance with all company safety rules as laid out in the company safety manual and all other company policies.
• Ensures availability of proper tooling and other equipment as specified to fulfill basic job requirements.
• Have the ability to develop and maintain two-way communication with peers and supervisors.
• Must possess the ability to train staff members on use of proper tools and processes for all positions.
• Willingness to give direction to area employees and follow up on that direction, and act as a positive role model for workers within work area.
• Attend workshops and other training as directed by the company to work to constantly improve leadership skills.
• Assist with purchasing parts as needed.
• Lead maintenance projects as assigned.
• Work and communicate with equipment service technicians as needed.
• Manage teams time in Paylocity.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Other Essential Duties and Responsibilities when completing maintenance activities include the following:

• Be capable of reading blueprints and understanding them and other technical documents required by the job of Maintenance Technician.
• Be able to attend and complete any specialized training required to be able to perform all aspects of a maintenance technician. To allow technician to perform repairs and preventive maintenance as needed in a wide variety of equipment and machine tools.
• Have the ability and desire to become efficient with mechanical equipment and learn all aspects of job as required.
• Follows all company safety rules as laid out in the company safety manual and all other company policies.
• Maintain company equipment and work areas in a clean and orderly manner.
• Be able to provide all of the proper tooling and other equipment as specified to fulfill basic job requirements.
• Continually strive to improve in all aspects of job requirements.
• Be familiar with Insperity to help with any issues.

Success Measures:

• PM completion rate and quality
• Reduction in repeat equipment failures
• Work order completion and backlog management
• Safety performance on assigned shift

Person-profile template:

• Lead the team by example
• Executes direction from Maintenance Manager while independently managing shift operations.
• Specific Job Skills as listed
• Computer Skills
• Read blueprints and other technical documents
• Have mechanical skills.

Requirements:

Manufacturing & Operations, Maintenance