Maintenance Supervisor

International Paper•Cave Spring, VA

2d•$78,000 - $101,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Supervisor oversees a shift or team of hourly maintenance technicians and coordinates maintenance planning, work orders, budgets, purchasing, inventory, and routine service contractors for the facility. The role tracks maintenance performance and costs using systems such as SAP and KIWI, reports on work-order efficiency and expenditures, and works with maintenance and production leadership to prioritize work and plan projects. It also supports capital-project development and implementation, predictive and preventive maintenance, safety and environmental initiatives, and continuous improvement across the site. The supervisor plans maintenance projects by scheduling employees and contractors, managing project budgets, arranging parts and production downtime, and ensuring work orders are kept current through completion. The role manages the facility’s parts and tool inventory and storeroom, coordinates purchasing and receiving, evaluates repair materials and services, tracks related costs, and works to reduce maintenance expenses. Other responsibilities include maintaining technical materials in the Maintenance Department library and carrying out other duties assigned by the manager.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED required.
Demonstrated personnel supervisory skills.
Minimum of four years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing facility preferred.
Demonstrated leadership experience preferred.
College education and/or related technical courses preferred.
Four years of experience in the corrugated box industry, with substantial electronics experience, preferred.
Mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical experience preferred.
Action oriented.
Decision quality.
Develops talent.
Optimizes work processes.
Organizational savvy.
Plans and aligns.
SAP experience preferred.

Nice To Haves

Minimum of four years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing facility.
Demonstrated leadership experience.
College education and/or related technical courses.
Four years of experience in the corrugated box industry with heavy electronics experience.
Mechanical, hydraulics, pneumatics, and electricity experience.
SAP experience.

Responsibilities

Supervise a shift or team of hourly maintenance technicians.
Manage the facility maintenance budget, review SAP reports, and maintain year-to-date expenditure records.
Use KIWI and SAP to track maintenance performance measures, including downtime, reliability indices, and breakdowns.
Manage the work-order system, track work orders through completion, and report on work-order efficiency to facility leadership.
Lead weekly maintenance-priority meetings with maintenance and production leadership to review notifications and backlog and prioritize work for the next seven days.
Plan maintenance projects, including staffing, contractor coordination, budget, manuals, parts, production scheduling, and work-order updates.
Coordinate predictive and preventive maintenance activities with site leadership.
Lead assigned Environmental Health & Safety initiatives, including permitting, compliance, inspections, contractor training, and employee training.
Manage the facility storeroom and parts inventory, including SAP records, inventory levels, organization, and project kitting.
Assist leadership with development, management, and implementation of capital projects.
Maintain a site-wide parts and tool inventory and coordinate routine service contractors.
Determine material needs, research options, obtain pricing, create SAP requisitions, and receive materials in SAP after invoices are received.
Coordinate purchasing, inventory, and work-order administration for the Maintenance Department.
Source and purchase locally available materials using a P-card, maintain purchase records, and reconcile the card according to corporate requirements.
Inspect maintenance materials and services upon delivery and help ensure plant receiving procedures are followed.
Track equipment repair, building repair, and project costs and report them to management routinely and as requested.
Use current site maintenance personnel before sourcing external contractors, in consultation with the respective manager, and support safety, maintenance, building security, housekeeping, groundskeeping, cost effectiveness, and continuous improvement.
Analyze high-cost maintenance centers and implement cost-reduction improvements in consultation with the respective manager.
Work with vendors to consolidate purchases where savings can be achieved.
Plan contracted work, develop scopes of work, obtain contractor quotations, create SAP requisitions for accepted bids, and release service entries after work completion and invoice receipt.
Plan routine maintenance tasks and preventive maintenance events.
Keep the Maintenance Department library orderly, including drawings, blueprints, machine manuals, vendor catalogs, and other technical and non-technical information.
Perform other duties assigned by the manager.