Maintenance Supervisor - Weekend Shift

Dev; Eden Prairie (MN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A food manufacturing company is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor to lead a team in Eden Prairie, MN. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of hands-on maintenance experience and some leadership skills. Responsibilities include implementing preventive maintenance practices, ensuring food safety compliance, and managing maintenance budgets. Candidates must be highly motivated and able to work in a fast-paced environment, with the possibility of evening and weekend work depending on job demands.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on maintenance experience required.
• Experience leading a maintenance team is preferred.
• Must pass a criminal background verification and drug test.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of mechanics.
• Implement preventive/predictive maintenance practices.
• Manage maintenance budgets and enhance team effectiveness.

Skills

Hands-on maintenance experience

Leadership experience

Problem-solving skills

Knowledge of food safety regulations

Lean manufacturing

Tools

CMMS

Microsoft Office

Job description

Jobs for Humanity is partnering with E. A. Sween Company to build an inclusive and just employment ecosystem. Therefore, we prioritize individuals coming from the following communities: Refugee, Neurodivergent, Single Parent, Blind or Low Vision, Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Military Veterans, the Elderly, the LGBTQ, and Justice Impacted individuals. This position is open to candidates who reside in and have the legal right to work in the country where the job is located.

Company Name: E. A. Sween Company

Job Description

The Maintenance Supervisor will be responsible to lead, motivate, and develop a team of mechanics to drive losses out of our systems, while leveraging Continuous Improvement tools, improving individual skills, and enhancing teamwork; also to continue our journey to a proactive maintenance approach leveraging predictive and preventative maintenance techniques and troubleshooting. The position will support our main plant in Eden Prairie, MN working to build a strong relationship with the Operations team.

Standard hours for this role are 5am - 6:30pm Friday-Sunday.

Train on 1st shift for 2-3 weeks.

Duties will include the following. Other duties may be assigned:

PREVENTIVE/PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE

• Implement a world-class, preventive/predictive maintenance framework and best‑practices across
• Work with Maintenance Planner to ensure timely execution of Preventative Maintenance and other work orders
• Maximizing the maintenance teams’ operating efficiency, trouble‑shooting, root‑cause investigation, counter‑measure implementation and preventive/predictive maintenance activities while contributing to internal projects as well
• Oversight of maintenance contracts and vendor relations

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT/LEAN INITIATIVES

• Foster a collaborative culture with the Operations team focused on implementing sustainable improvements to maximize machine uptime/Overall Equipment Efficiency and continuous improvement of maintenance practices and fundamentals.
• Develop department KPIs and utilize the data from Asset Essentials (CMMS) and Redzone (Operations Management tool) to improve department effectiveness (including safety, reliability, productivity and quality)

LEADERSHIP

• Provide direct supervision and coaching/development to maintenance personnel direct reports
• Hire, train, coach and review work of maintenance mechanics to ensure the maintenance program is being accomplished in a safe, timely and cost-effective manner.

BUDGET MANAGING

• Ownership of maintenance budgets
• Support capital project development and execution

PROBLEM SOLVING

• Tackles and solves frequent problems that can arise in a typical workday. Identifies a certain problem or situation and then finds the best way to handle the problem and get the best solution. Able to sort things out even when the prevailing conditions are not right.

DELEGATION

• Has the ability to effectively and efficiently re‑assign tasks and give authority to the right employees, to help facilitate quick and easy work results, avoid wastage of time, optimize productivity, and ensure responsibility and accountability on the part of employees.

HEALTH AND SAFETY

• Participate in safety related meetings and training.
• Cooperate with all aspects of the Safety Program.
• Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Enforce safety policies and procedures (both in-house and regulatory) to decrease the potential for employee injuries on the job.

FOOD SAFETY

• Assures team members are following Good Manufacturing Practices to ensure we produce safe quality food.
• Work to ensure all corrective actions from all audits are completed and reviewed.
• Ensures the company actively maintains the facility and prioritizes repairs to the facility and equipment based on food safety risk to product or process.
• Comply with food safety regulations, and current Good Manufacturing Practices to result in the delivery of safe food products.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of hands‑on maintenance experience
• Some experience leading a maintenance team
• Submit and receive satisfactory results on a criminal background verification and drug test

Preferred Qualification (if Applicable):

• Manufacturing industry experience required - Food industry experience strongly preferred
• Lean manufacturing experience
• Influencing and coaching skills
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems, analyze complex processes, synthesize data and results, and drive toward insight and solutions
• Able to identify significant deviations from the operating plan and budget and work with site leaders to identify corrective actions using appropriate continuous improvement tools (kaizen, visual systems, 6S, gemba, six sigma, LEAN, etc)
• Proficient knowledge of food manufacturing, food safety, FDA/USDA, and OSHA
• Budget creation and management experience
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office and experience with CMMS

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

A. Must be highly motivated and willing to work in a fast pace environment

B. Must be able to work well with various levels of employees and diverse cultures

C. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

D. While performing the duties of this job, must be able to work in cool conditions of up to 50 degrees up to 20% of the time

E. The employee frequently is required to stand or walk the majority of the day; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach overhead with hands and arms.

F. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl as well as the ability to bend, twist, turn, push, pull.

• The employee on occasion will lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

I. This is a full-time position (40 hours per week). Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.