Technical Supervisor

The J.M. Smucker Co.; Columbus (GA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The J.M. Smucker Co. in Columbus, GA is seeking a Technical Supervisor to lead maintenance planning, scheduling, reliability, and storeroom operations for the bakery. This onsite role emphasizes safety, food quality, and GMP compliance while driving continuous improvement.

You will coordinate with production, sanitation, and engineering teams, manage CMMS-driven work orders, and mentor the Storeroom Leader to ensure spare parts readiness and effective maintenance execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Minimum five years of maintenance experience in a food-manufacturing environment.
• Experience with CMMS and analyzing downtime trends.
• Knowledge of bakery or food-manufacturing equipment and food safety requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build, prioritize, and maintain maintenance schedules.
• Plan maintenance work coordinating labor, parts, tools, contractors, permits, and other resources.
• Manage maintenance backlog and CMMS work orders.
• Lead preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Oversee storeroom operations and spare parts availability.
• Provide coaching on CMMS and Operations Excellence tools.
• Analyze downtime and asset performance to identify improvement opportunities.
• Ensure safety, food quality, regulatory compliance, and GMPs.
• Coordinate with safety, sanitation, and operations teams.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Maintenance scheduling

CMMS

Data analysis

Excel

Word

Safety compliance

Team collaboration

Root-cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CMMS software

SAP Plant Maintenance

IBM Maximo

Job description

Your Opportunity as a Technical Supervisor

As the Technical Supervisor, you will lead maintenance planning, scheduling, reliability, and storeroom activities that improve equipment performance, reduce downtime, and optimize maintenance resources. You will partner across the bakery to strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance, spare-parts readiness, work execution, and continuous improvement. This role is responsible for ensuring work is completed with a strong focus on employee safety, food safety, quality, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence.

Location:

1969 Victory Dr, Columbus, GA 31901 (Hostess Manufacturing Plant)

Work Arrangements:

100% on-site, primarily Day Shift. Flexibility required. Willingness to work off shift (including nights, weekends, and/or holidays) and flow to the work as needed

In This Role You Will

• Build, prioritize, and maintain weekly and long-range maintenance schedules aligned with production needs and equipment reliability priorities.
• Plan maintenance work by coordinating labor, parts, tools, contractors, permits, and other required resources.
• Manage the maintenance backlog and work-order priorities within the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Coaching and development of the department on CMMS and Operations Excellence tools and systems
• Lead preventive and predictive maintenance performance, including PM completion, schedule compliance, and program improvements.
• Lead storeroom operations, including inventory accuracy, cycle counting, receiving, organization, and critical spare-parts availability.
• Provide coaching and direction to the Storeroom Leader/Buyer and build team capability in CMMS and Operations Excellence tools.
• Analyze downtime, work-order, and asset-performance data to identify recurring failures and reliability improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate root-cause analysis and ensure corrective actions are assigned, completed, and sustained.
• Ensure that planned maintenance and reliability activities are performed with attention to food quality, safe processes, legal requirements, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as the Quality Assurance Key Element owner for equipment and maintenance requirements.
• Serve as a Safety Key Element owner.
• Attend and be an active participant during daily direction-setting meetings and weekly line scorecard reviews.
• Partner with Sanitation, Operations Excellence, Operations, and Maintenance to improve equipment performance, sanitation outcomes, asset utilization, and planned work execution.
• Coordinate contractors and vendors, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and within the defined scope.
• Track and communicate maintenance performance, including PM completion, backlog aging, planned versus unplanned work, downtime, schedule compliance, and inventory results.
• Support equipment installation, startup, capital projects, and other bakery improvement initiatives.
• Maintain accurate maintenance, reliability, inventory, and purchasing records while retaining an active floor presence to support safety, quality, and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).

Minimum Requirements

What We are Looking For:

• Bachelor’s Degree Required
• At least five years of maintenance experience in a food-manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of maintenance planning and scheduling, preventive and predictive maintenance, and reliability-centered maintenance principles.
• Experience using a CMMS and analyzing equipment failures, downtime trends, and maintenance performance data.
• Knowledge of commercial bakery or food-manufacturing equipment, food safety requirements, and safe maintenance practices.
• Ability to coordinate planned work, contractors, vendors, and multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Ability to meet the physical requirements of the role, including sitting, standing, walking, bending, reaching, climbing stairs or ladders, and lifting up to 50 pounds.

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:

• Experience in maintenance planning, reliability leadership, or storeroom and spare-parts management.
• Experience with systems such as CAMS, SAP Plant Maintenance, IBM Maximo, or a similar CMMS.
• Experience with inventory control, cycle counting, critical spare-parts strategy, and maintenance purchasing.
• Electrical, electronic, and mechanical troubleshooting knowledge.
• Experience facilitating root-cause analysis and using continuous-improvement or Operations Excellence tools.
• Strong communication, coaching, collaboration, and problem-solving skills across technical and operations teams.
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Work Environment:

This job operates in a manufacturing environment. Exposure may include noise, moving equipment, temperature variation, food ingredients, cleaning chemicals, and other conditions typical of a commercial bakery

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to talk and hear.
• Frequently required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Able to lift objects up to 50 pounds frequently. May push and pull heavy objects.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

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