Supervisor, Maintenance

Samuel, Son & Co.; Fontana (CA); On-site; USD 89,003 - 106,480; Full time

Job summary

Samuel, Son & Co. is seeking an experienced maintenance lead for our extrusion area in California. You will develop maintenance strategies, lead the technical team, and drive preventive, predictive, and proactive maintenance programs to maximize uptime and safety.

Responsibilities include training technicians, coordinating external services, performing root-cause analyses, and improving automation projects. A high school diploma or technical training and strong safety focus are required.

Qualifications

• Industrial maintenance experience in metal processing or similar.
• Strong focus on industrial safety and EHS.
• People management experience and leadership skills.
• Situational leadership and proactive problem solving.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English.

Responsibilities

• Develop the maintenance strategy for extrusion equipment.
• Train and mentor maintenance technicians.
• Create a training matrix for technical skills.
• Supervise EHS performance of the work crew.
• Develop preventive and predictive maintenance routines.
• Troubleshoot finish equipment failures.
• Coordinate external service providers for maintenance.
• Maintain records and perform root cause analysis.
• Improve uptime through automation projects.
• Support TPM implementation and autonomous maintenance.
• Track maintenance performance metrics (uptime, MTTR, MTBF).

Skills

Industrial maintenance

People management

Situational leadership

Oral communication

Written communication

Technical communication

Electrical aptitude

Technical aptitude

Safety awareness

Regulatory knowledge (CA)

Education

High School Diploma or technical formation

Tools

PLC/HMI/VFD knowledge

Conveyor systems

Temperature controllers

Job description

Responsibilities

• Develop the best maintenance strategy for each equipment or device at extrusion area.
• Develop maintenance technician skills by training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Develop training matrix with the technical skills required by maintenance technicians’ crew
• Supervise closely EHS performance of his work crew.
• Develop and perform the preventive maintenance routines needed to keep all extrusion equipment 100% availability.
• Develop and perform the predictive maintenance routines needed to keep all finishing equipment 100% availability.
• Develop and perform proactive maintenance routines to find out potential failures and feed the maintenance master plan (maintenance backlog).
• Do and help to maintenance technicians to troubleshooting on finish equipment failures.
• Coordinate external services with contactor companies for periodic preventive and predictive services and for equipment reparation services.
• Keep record of the maintenance failures and conduct root cause analysis of the top issues.
• Performed environment score card action plan.
• Work with storeroom to upload critical spare parts to inventory control.
• Improve automation projects to improve uptime, safety, quality, and cycle time of finishing equipment.
• Develop and perform restoration equipment program (upgrade, retrofits, modernization etc.)
• Develop TPM implementation, participate to develop autonomous maintenance routines, contamination source elimination, heard to reach areas elimination.
• Develop critical components identification codes system to keep tracking of reparation and preventive maintenance.
• Supervise the maintenance system functionality (work orders, repair and spare part inventory control, Preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance execution, RCA etc.)
• Monitor maintenance performance key indicators (uptime, reliability, MTTR, MTBF, PM compliance etc.)

Education

• Minimum of High School Diploma or technical formation

Qualifications

• Industrial maintenance experience at metal mechanic industry or similar.
• Focus on industrial safety.
• People management experience
• Situational leadership.
• Very proactive and self-motivated
• Oral communication skills
• Written communication skills
• Technical Communication
• Technical Aptitude
• Electrical Aptitude
• Computer knowledge.
• Dealing with specialized service providers.
• Minimum of High School Diploma or technical formation

SKILLS: Required

• Good knowledge on hydraulic presses (high pressure)
• Knowledge of gas Furnaces.
• Knowledge at Cooling towers
• Good knowledge on controllers (PLC, HMI, VFD, Temperature controllers)
• Knowledge on automatic cranes.
• Knowledge on combustion systems.
• Knowledge on industrial blowers.
• Knowledge on conveyor systems.
• Good knowledge on mechanical systems (industrial level)
• Good knowledge on electrical systems (480 Volts)
• Good knowledge on lock out tags out procedures and OSHAS regulations.
• Good knowledge to manage people and California labor regulations.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• This position works in a manufacturing environment.
• Work is performed in a manufacturing environment in all weather conditions.
• Lift up to 25 lbs. regularly, up to 50 lbs. frequently and up to 75 lbs. occasionally

The annual base salary range for this position is $89,003 - $106,480. If you are hired, your annual base pay will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base pay range for the role.