Utility Maintenance Supervisor

Post Holdings, Inc.; Nebraska; On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Foods, Inc. seeks a Maintenance Supervisor to lead a reliability-focused team at Wakefield plant. This role directs maintenance and project activities, coordinating with ARM and plant staff to sustain asset health and safety standards.

Responsibilities include supervising contractors, managing budget inputs, and driving continuous improvement through RCA/RCM while ensuring GMP and food safety compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical field preferred; leadership aptitude.
• Minimum 5 years of leadership or supervisory experience in industrial operations or maintenance.
• CMRP certification preferred; SAP experience beneficial.
• Understanding of PLC and equipment automation preferred.
• Experience with CMMS and KPI tracking.
• Able to interact with all levels of the organization.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise maintenance team, ensure safety, quality, delivery, and cost improvements.
• Oversee contractors while onsite, ensuring safety, food safety, and GMP compliance.
• Balance maintenance initiatives with plant business strategies during shifts.
• Assist with budgeting and capital project planning.
• Utilize CMMS for maintenance reporting and decision making.
• Maintain accurate records (SAP data, KPI tracking).
• Coordinate with planning to optimize team utilization and scheduling.
• Support RCA/RCM to improve asset reliability and plant performance.

Skills

Leadership

Safety culture

Quality management

GMP/compliance

SAP

PLC/automation

Project planning

Education

Engineering degree or technical degree

Associate's degree or technical certificate

CMRP certification

Tools

CMMS

SAP

Job description

Business Unit Overview

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food.

Location Description

Wakefield is one of the largest production facilities within Michael Foods. We serve as a flex plant and are able to produce everything from a whole pasteurized egg to liquid, dried, hardboiled and curds.

Responsibilities

SUMMARY:

The Maintenance Supervisor is accountable for leading, directing, and supervising plant reliability and maintenance personnel. The Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for keeping the equipment and facilities in optimum operating condition while on shift. The Maintenance Supervisor will be expected to run a professional quality maintenance team by exhibiting strong leadership abilities, setting expectations, and ensuring consistent communication with personnel. This position provides both Maintenance and Reliability services within the plant, championing executional excellence and asset health improvement efforts. The Maintenance Supervisor will ensure results while partnering with the MFI ARM team, plant maintenance team personnel, plant operational team, and all other plant support teams members for success. This position has the responsibility to comply with Safety work rules at all times as well as an obligation to reinforce Safety as a Core Value. Ensures that all policies, procedures and activities, related to Food Safety & Quality, are followed and complied with uniformly, in an effort to reduce product and process variability. This role must be available to work scheduled work times, weekends, and holidays, as necessary.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and supervise department team members to ensure personal safety, quality, delivery, and cost, are continuously being improved to achieve company objectives. Engage and develop the asset care team members to deliver expected levels of reliability. As part of the greater maintenance leadership team, be an active member who contributes to the MFI culture's advancement. Direct responsibility for the maintenance team members and their performance.
• Responsible for supervising maintenance or project contractors while onsite to include human safety, food safety, and plant GMP requirements.

• Responsible for all maintenance team metrics. Ability to balance maintenance (tactical and strategic) initiatives that align with plant business strategies while on shift.
• Assists with planning and cost estimates for annual and longer-term capital and operating budgets to deliver to business plan. Investigate the condition of buildings, equipment, and grounds, and recommend improvements in the facilities to ensure that business needs are met.

• Utilize MFI approved CMMS to manage, document, and support maintenance reporting and decision making. This will be accomplished through the guidance of MFI ARM standards.

• Keeps accurate and up-to-date records (i.e., SAP data, Kronos, KPI’s, etc..).
• Works with planning and scheduling to utilize team personnel in a cost-effective manner.

• Adhere to established MFI standards for assessing the quality of work performed by employees and contractors.
• Supervise the completion of work through review of reports and frequent site inspections.

• Recognizes and takes steps to resolve operating problems to minimize their impact on the business.

• Provides input for root cause analysis (RCA) and reliability centered maintenance (RCM) to create an environment of continuous asset reliability improvement. Will champion the plant’s RCM and RCA process.

• Create and foster a team environment that demonstrates genuine concern for personal and professional development of all employees by providing team members opportunity for development to their full potential through the MFI ARMED program.

• Ability to coordinate and partner with corporate stakeholder groups to build and maintain programs and processes consistent with MFI standards.
• Promote, and foster Michael Foods culture, values, and principles.
• Act as a role model by demonstrating safe work behaviors. Assumes personal responsibility to ensure safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
• Adheres to quality work practices, follows GMP’s, maintains sanitary conditions and ensures that product quality is maintained. Reports on any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety and quality.
• Always ensures required regulatory compliance.
• Participate in acquiring talent within maintenance organization. Includes interviewing, recruiting, and selection for salaried and hourly team members. Actively support recruiting events and talent pipeline efforts.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical field is preferred. Can also have an associate's degree, two-year technical certificate, and / or a relevant combination of experience which demonstrates technical and leadership aptitude. Demonstrated leadership experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of proven leadership or supervisory experience in industrial operations or maintenance or utilities operations is preferred
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) certification preferred.
• Understanding of PLC and equipment automation preferred.
• Trained and competent in MFI MTL1, MTL2, & MTL3 skills preferred
• Prior experience in SAP preferred
• Ability to interact with all levels of the organization

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with superb time management skills
• Ability to lead teams and hold team members accountable, while successfully achieving results through internal and external resources
• Excellent administrative and follow-up skills to achieve successful maintenance and repair programs.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature. 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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.