Maintenance Assistant Supervisor

Sims Limited•La Vergne, TN
•Onsite

About The Position

Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS) is a global leader in electronics and reuse recycling with facilities across the globe. Our goal is to be the world’s best, safest, and most responsible recycling company. SLS serves global clients across a range of industries to securely and responsibly recycle and manage the disposition of IT equipment and electronic products. Our asset management and recovery service enables businesses to meet both their social and legal obligations in the treatment of surplus electronics in a legally compliant, data secure, fully traceable, and environmentally sustainable manner. With our global reach, expertise, and infrastructure, SLS is able to provide a comprehensive solution for e-waste and IT asset disposition anywhere in the world. Purpose of Role Reporting to the Maintenance Supervisor, the Assistant Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for oversight of the Maintenance Department including supervision of staff, maintenance of the facility and its machinery.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalent
  • Three years’ preferred experience
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Effective leadership skills
  • Dedicated team player
  • Outstanding organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Flexible and adaptable
  • Ability to manage changing priorities as maintenance program evolves.
  • Ability to create detailed project plans.
  • Proficiency with MSOffice suite
  • Effectively manage own safety, work with housekeeping principles, contribute to the safety of the team
  • Achieve challenging individual targets relevant to own position, produce work at an acceptable standard for position, attentive to detail, support quality initiatives.
  • Communicate verbally and/or in writing, as required, share information and ideas with others; has good listening skills.
  • Work well within a team environment, follow instructions, work independently, ask questions and request feedback, meet clear deadlines, display mutual respect, support inclusive work culture.
  • Recognizes problems and responds, seek input from others, communicate decisions to others, support and adapt to change, open to new ideas, take on new responsibilities, handle pressure, show initiative, support continuous improvement tasks.
  • Plan and complete tasks and projects with short-term impacts, coordinate and cooperate with others, accountable for completion of own tasks, keep information organized and accessible, work systematically and efficiently, use time well.
  • Understand own duties and responsibilities, has necessary technical skills, has necessary job knowledge, keep job knowledge current, understand policies and procedures applicable to self and team

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate activities of Maintenance Department employees.
  • Oversee and schedule the preventative maintenance, lubrication and outside analysis on all plant equipment and ensure PM intervals are met; stock and maintains the appropriate spare parts inventory for operating equipment.
  • Perform routine, analytical test on equipment to resolve problems (i.e., test and replace fuses, contractors, replace/rewire broken or worn out electrical motors, gearboxes, pumps, conveyor belts, fabricate or contract out parts) as needed.
  • Perform analysis and take readings on ventilation equipment for dust control.
  • Perform analysis and maintenance on equipment as needed and provide assistance to the maintenance staff as required in the fabrication and maintenance of equipment.
  • Conduct shift meetings (e.g. Safety, operations, alerts, etc.)
  • Train employees on new standard work procedures and equipment
  • Implement, monitor, and enforce new and existing company policies including but not limited to maintenance standards, the provisions of machinery purchases, and small projects
  • Perform CCVs and Safety Conversations as required.
  • Support and comply with all Safety, Health, Environment, Community, and Sustainability (SHECS) policies, procedures, and initiatives, including SimsMMay Program, to ensure a safe work environment. This may include conducting Job Cycle Checks and Safety Conversations, developing and maintaining Standard Operating Procedures and Safe Work Procedures, and submitting HazReps.
  • Provide appropriate guidance, assistance, and training co-workers to ensure ability to work efficiently and diligently to provide cost-competitive service to clients.
  • Support the shredding equipment operation by performing system checks, preventative maintenance, work orders, safety inspections, inventory duties and facilities maintenance.
  • Communicate inventory levels to the Inventory Specialist to minimize machine downtime.
  • Schedule preventative maintenance to avoid interference with production.
  • Demonstrate personal responsibility for all Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) policies, procedures, and initiatives.
  • Support diversity and inclusion, positive employee relations, and teamwork.
  • Support measures designed to effectively manage costs and adherence to budgetary requirements.
  • Support continuous improvement initiatives and quality requirements.
  • Comply with all Company policies, procedures, and initiatives relevant to job.
  • Support training and performance management initiatives.

Benefits

  • competitive pay
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