Overnight Maintenance Lead: Production Reliability

Electrical Automation Services; Shorter (AL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Electrical Automation Services is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor for the 3rd shift to lead planned, scheduled, and emergency maintenance on the plant floor. You will guide a team, ensure safe operations, and coordinate with production to minimize downtime and improve reliability.

The role requires extensive maintenance supervision experience, strong leadership and communication skills, and solid knowledge of hydraulic/pneumatic systems, drives, and SAP CMMS.

Qualifications

• At least five years of manufacturing or maintenance-supervision experience.
• Experience supervising and developing industrial maintenance personnel.
• Experience with hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• Experience with drive systems, transmissions, and related mechanical equipment.
• Experience installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting industrial drives.
• SAP or comparable CMMS experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the maintenance team's compliance with safety, quality, food safety, and environmental requirements.
• Ensure all maintenance work, equipment modifications, and process changes have complete work orders and required approvals.
• Attend daily operations shift-handover meetings to review events from the previous 24 hours.
• Lead maintenance shift-handover meetings and review downtime, completed work orders, outstanding issues, and follow-up actions.
• Represent maintenance during production meetings and communicate equipment-related priorities and concerns.
• Review planned job packages for labor requirements, materials, replacement parts, work methods, permits, and priorities.
• Assign work orders and provide each team member with a complete workload at the beginning of the shift.
• Partner with planners and schedulers to manage the maintenance backlog and establish work priorities.
• Spend at least 60% of the shift on the production floor engaging with maintenance mechanics and serving as the maintenance liaison to production.
• Direct and monitor maintenance work for safety, quality, completion time, cost, and thoroughness.
• Provide technical support and guidance to ensure maintenance jobs are completed correctly.
• Communicate with production regarding schedule changes, job duration, and conditions affecting maintenance work.
• Manage crew payroll, overtime, attendance, tardiness, and absenteeism according to established site policies.
• Ensure maintenance team members follow workplace policies, procedures, and professional conduct expectations.
• Support improved changeover performance and changeover-parts management.
• Ensure labor hours, materials, failure causes, corrective actions, component information, and equipment conditions are documented accurately in SAP.
• Maintain strong housekeeping standards and safe work practices throughout the shift.
• Own continuous-improvement activities for assigned equipment areas, including improvements to Overall Equipment Effectiveness.
• Support reliability and innovation initiatives throughout production areas.
• Lead safety-awareness and information-sharing meetings.
• Promote employee engagement, accountability, and teamwork.
• Provide on-the-job training and observe individual performance to identify skill-development opportunities.
• Train maintenance personnel and other users on proper SAP procedures.
• Develop and maintain individual development plans and conduct regular one-on-one feedback sessions.
• Strengthen the maintenance team's capabilities in plant utilities and production equipment.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous personal and professional development.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational Skills

Problem Solving

SAP Experience

Industrial Maintenance

Hydraulic & Pneumatic

Drive Systems

Electrical & Controls

Team Development

Tools

SAP CMMS

Job description

Electrical Automation Services is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor for the 3rd shift to lead planned, scheduled, and emergency maintenance on the plant floor. You will guide a team, ensure safe operations, and coordinate with production to minimize downtime and improve reliability.

The role requires extensive maintenance supervision experience, strong leadership and communication skills, and solid knowledge of hydraulic/pneumatic systems, drives, and SAP CMMS.