Maintenance Supervisor - 3rd Shift

Schwan's Company • Florence, KY

3d • Onsite

About The Position

CJ Schwan’s is hiring a Maintenance Supervisor for the 3rd shift at its pizza plant in Florence, Kentucky. The role provides technical, process, and people leadership for an assigned shift or platform and directs reactive, corrective, and planned maintenance in coordination with the site strategy. The supervisor helps implement Asset Optimization elements, particularly Planning and Scheduling, Defect Elimination, and Breakdown Elimination. In partnership with Production Supervision, the role is accountable for production throughput, downtime, OEE, and cost attainment on the assigned shift.

The supervisor leads day-to-day maintenance assignments and resource prioritization, monitors and reports maintenance performance metrics, and works with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot breakdowns and reliability losses. The role also contributes to improving equipment maintenance strategies using team input, failure analyses, defect trends, and equipment condition monitoring.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of maintenance experience, including at least 2 years of maintenance leadership.
• Previous supervisor experience.
• Knowledge and skills in general construction, electrical and electronic systems, microprocessors, and mechanical systems, including production/process equipment, refrigeration, boilers, HVAC, hydraulics, and pneumatics.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Working knowledge of food plant production and processing equipment preferred.
• Knowledge of SAP, occupational hazards and safety, EPA regulations, USDA requirements, and sanitation standards preferred.

Responsibilities

• Improve the organization and effectiveness of physical workspaces through the Shop Tools and Facilities system, including shop safety, 5S, and precision tools.
• Supervise daily reactive, corrective, planned, and condition-based maintenance assignments in coordination with the Maintenance Planner/Scheduler.
• Prioritize and assign resources in response to changing production and schedule demands.
• Participate in site DMS meetings and own reporting for maintenance metrics.
• Track and report weekly maintenance KPIs, including PM and corrective completion, backlog, work-order aging, mean time to complete, breakdowns, and defects.
• Lead troubleshooting and problem-solving for breakdowns and reliability losses with cross-functional teams.
• Drive failures to root cause using Breakdown Elimination processes.
• Contribute to equipment maintenance strategy improvements using maintenance-team input, breakdown-elimination findings, defect trends, and equipment condition monitoring.
• Help identify and eliminate major site losses and support shift production throughput, downtime, OEE, and cost attainment in partnership with Production Supervision.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Time off programs
• Retirement and financial offerings
• Eligibility for a 10% annual incentive bonus based on organizational performance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED