Maintenance Supervisor

Loos•Pomfret, CT

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Supervisor directs daily maintenance activities and provides frontline leadership to maintenance employees at an assigned manufacturing facility. The role assigns and coordinates work, enforces safe-work requirements, develops employees, maintains work controls, and supports maintenance strategies and resource decisions to protect safety, compliance, equipment availability, product quality, and manufacturing continuity. The supervisor oversees preventive, predictive, corrective, shutdown, facility, utility, and emergency maintenance; coordinates employees, contractors, service agreements, spare parts, and critical-equipment needs; and monitors maintenance performance and costs. The position works with Engineering, Operations, and other functions to support equipment installation, commissioning, change control, documentation, compliance, and continuous improvement. It operates primarily in an active industrial manufacturing environment and may require schedule flexibility, overtime, call-in, shutdown, weekend, or shift work based on assigned operations.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent required.
Progressive industrial maintenance experience involving production machinery, safe-work control, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and cross-functional coordination.
Demonstrated ability to assign and prioritize work, coordinate downtime response, communicate risk, and maintain accurate records in a CMMS or equivalent system.
Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, controls, utility, and reliability principles appropriate to the role.
Prior experience leading or supervising industrial maintenance employees, contractors, shifts, projects, or work assignments required.
The position’s classification must be validated against its actual primary duty, authority, and exercise of discretion at the assigned site.

Nice To Haves

Technical certificate, associate degree, apprenticeship, or equivalent advanced industrial maintenance experience.
Formal supervisory experience.
Experience maintaining machinery in wire, cable, metalworking, rope, drawing, stranding, forming, heat-treatment, packaging, or comparable industrial manufacturing.
Formal training or certification in industrial maintenance, mechatronics, electrical systems, controls, welding, hydraulics, vibration, lubrication, supervision, or reliability appropriate to the role.
Experience using a CMMS, reading technical drawings, applying root-cause analysis, and participating in Lean or continuous-improvement activity.

Responsibilities

Provide frontline leadership for plant maintenance and set daily priorities that protect employee safety, product quality, production continuity, equipment reliability, and lifecycle cost.
Schedule, assign, and oversee preventive, predictive, corrective, shutdown, facility, utility, and emergency maintenance work based on risk and operational requirements.
Supervise, train, coach, and evaluate maintenance employees; support staffing, skills development, time and attendance, accountability, and shift coverage.
Control assigned maintenance spending and coordinate contractors, service agreements, spare parts, warranties, and critical-equipment needs within approved budgets and authority.
Monitor downtime, preventive-maintenance compliance, backlog, repeat failures, work quality, and maintenance cost; participate in root-cause analysis and ensure corrective actions are completed.
Coordinate with Engineering and Operations on equipment installation, commissioning, change control, documentation, and maintainability.
Support compliance with permits, inspections, environmental requirements, electrical and mechanical codes, and company safety programs.
Enforce lockout/tagout, machine-guarding, electrical-safety, hot-work, confined-space, fall-protection, and other applicable safe-work requirements; stop and report unsafe conditions.
Direct and, when needed, assist with preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance work to meet established priorities.
Ensure labor, parts, findings, failure information, and follow-up needs are accurately recorded in the computerized maintenance management system or designated records.
Coordinate with Production, Engineering, Quality, EHS, Purchasing, and outside service providers to restore and sustain safe equipment operation.
Maintain orderly tools, work areas, replacement parts, and technical documentation, and support required inspections and audits.
Perform other related duties consistent with the role, grade, qualifications, and business needs.