Job Summary/Objective
The Preventive Maintenance (PM) Supervisor leads a team of multi-craft technicians and is responsible for the execution, scheduling, and continuous improvement of the site’s preventive and predictive maintenance program. This role applies Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles to improve equipment reliability, reduce unplanned downtime, and ensure safe, compliant operations in a food manufacturing environment.
The PM Supervisor partners with Operations, Engineering, and Reliability resources to ensure maintenance activities are properly planned, prioritized, and executed, with a strong focus on preventive maintenance (PM), condition-based monitoring (PdM), and precision maintenance practices.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:
- Supervise, coach, and develop a team of 5 multi-craft maintenance technicians
- Assign daily and weekly work based on priority, safety, and production needs
- Ensure effective labor utilization and schedule adherence
- Lead daily shift meetings and weekly maintenance planning reviews
- Enforce maintenance standards, safe work practices, and quality of execution
- Partner with Operations to coordinate maintenance windows and minimize disruption.
Preventative Maintenance Program Ownership
- Execute and sustain a structured PM program based on RCM principles and asset criticality
- Ensure >90–95% PM compliance on a weekly basis
- Audit PM quality and continuously improve task effectiveness
- Eliminate non-value-added PMs and optimize frequencies using failure history
- Maintain a healthy maintenance backlog (2–4 weeks of planned work)
Predictive / Condition-Based Maintenance
- Execute PdM routes including vibration, thermography, ultrasound, and oil analysis
- Review PdM findings and generate corrective work orders
- Prioritize and schedule corrective actions based on risk and severity
- Support condition monitoring initiatives (online or route-based systems)
- Ensure PdM technologies are effectively used to identify developing failures early
Work Planning & CMMS Ownership
- Utilize CMMS as the system of record for all maintenance activities
- Ensure all work is properly planned, scoped, and documented before execution
- Review and approve work orders for completeness and accuracy
- Track and report KPIs including PM compliance, backlog, downtime, and labor utilization
- Drive continuous improvement in work order quality and data integrity
Precision Maintenance & Lubrication
- Enforce precision maintenance practices (alignment, balancing, torque, soft foot correction)
- Lead lubrication best practices including contamination control and proper intervals
- Ensure proper installation and repair techniques to prevent premature failures
Inventory, Safety & Compliance
- Coordinate with storeroom or purchasing to ensure parts availability for scheduled work
- Support min/max inventory levels for critical spares
- Ensure parts are kitted and ready prior to scheduled maintenance
Capital & Project Support
- Support maintenance activities during shutdowns and planned outages
- Provide maintenance input for new equipment installations and commissioning
- Assist in developing PM strategies for new assets
Travel Requirements
☒None ☐ Minimal ☐ Moderate ☐ High
Qualifications:
General Skills & Abilities needed to complete job successfully:
- 7–12+ years of industrial maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment
- 3–6+ years leading maintenance teams or reliability initiatives
- Demonstrated success improving maintenance performance metrics (e.g., PM compliance, downtime reduction, planned vs reactive work)
- Proven experience advancing a maintenance program from reactive → planned → predictive
- Hands-on experience implementing or sustaining RCM, PM optimization, or PdM programs
- Experience working in food, beverage, dairy, or regulated manufacturing environments strongly preferred
Education/Certifications: (if n/a is applicable please note “N/A)
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Preferred |
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Education (degree/certifications) |
High School Diploma or GED; Technical certification in electrical, mechanical, or related field |
Associate’s Degree in Industrial Maintenance or related field, Certified Maintenance & Reliability Technician (CMRT) |
Work Environment & Demands
Physical and environmental demands for this position are indicated below: (check all that are applicable)
Physical Demands:
- Requires ability to walk and stand for 12 or more hours at a time.
- Requires ability to stoop, bend, reach, lift, climb ladders, stairs of various heights and carry items in excess of 55 pounds.
- Requires ability to stoop, bend, reach, lift and carry items often including items up to 55lbs.
- Requires ability to push and pull items frequently including items 150lbs.
- Requires ability to climb ladders and stairs of various heights including floors of 100ft or more.
- Requires ability to hear and speak and frequently hear and speak in very noisy environments.
- Requires ability to work in varying extreme hot, cold, and wet temperatures and conditions.
- Requires ability to work in confined spaces frequently.
- Requires the ability to visually observe the condition of surroundings.
- Requires ability to work safely with hazardous chemicals.
- Requires ability to walk entire facility multiple times for each shift.
- Ability to drive and operate a forklift and like equipment.