Maintenance Supervisor
About The Position
The Maintenance Team Leader is responsible for leading multi‑craft maintenance teams to ensure safe, high‑quality, and reliable execution of maintenance work while supporting production and long‑term asset health. This role fosters a zero‑incident safety culture, ensures work is completed right the first time, and balances daily execution with strategic maintenance planning. The Team Leader provides technical expertise above the craft level, oversees schedule compliance, and partners closely with planning, operations, and reliability teams. Through effective communication, coaching, and continuous improvement practices, this position drives engagement, develops team capability, and supports SQRE performance across the site.
Requirements
- High School Diploma
- 5+ years of experience as a maintenance mechanic
- 2+ years of experience in a team lead role – external candidates
- Knowledge of and experience with continuous improvement practices
- Ability to build partnerships to achieve common goals
- Ability to gather trust and confidence of others through honesty, integrity and authenticity
- Ability to work efficiently, plan and prioritize to meet common goals
Nice To Haves
- Associate's degree a plus.
- Machinist / Millwright experience a plus
Responsibilities
- Creates safety culture within Maintenance teams on proactive hazard recognition and facilitation of safe work execution.
- Provides oversight for quality on repairs (minimizes rework)
- Holds team accountable for quality repairs and procedure adherence
- Advocates for both company and team needs
- Works with others to solve problems and develop skills – stay in compliance
- Balances urgency with long term repairs and follow up
- Provides technical expertise level above craft
- Manages work schedule compliance
- Integrates central and core maintenance
- Facilitates failure analysis and provides support on potential issues that could compromise the CORE principles
- Ownership of weekly schedule – provides input and feedback
- Manages Area planner and ensure quality job plans are being developed
- Manages multi-craft fully functional teams
- Communicates progress, needs, and gaps to partners and stakeholders
- Provides updates on KPI’s
- Escalates issues that can’t be solved with base resources regarding key activities of SQRE
- Shares and facilitates best practices between units and/or sites
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
