Maintenance Supervisor

Lactalis LHD•Wausau, WI

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Ready for more than just a job? Build a career with purpose. At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed. As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together. In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®. At Lactalis, we live by our core values— Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued. Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

Requirements

3+ years of maintenance supervisor experience is required.
Requires intermediate computer skills using Microsoft Office, SAP, and AutoCAD to present all documents related to any projects.

Nice To Haves

A bachelor's degree is preferred.
A major in Engineering is preferred.
Food industry experience is preferred.
Knowledge of Packaging Lines and Dryers is preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership to the Maintenance Department in establishing, organizing, planning, and implementing maintenance programs which will support the maintenance strategy across all three shifts of the operation.
Collaborate with all plant departments to align duties with the company's goals and values.
Ensures the department is properly trained on how to execute work safely and drive improvements to eliminate any safety risks across the factory.
Ensures maintenance supports production of high-quality food products.
Leveraging team members to propose and execute work that assures compliance to specifications and increases consumer satisfaction.
Understand, enforce, and comply with the sites Environmental Policy.
Support and introduce initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint.
Owner for Maintenance programs such as Preventive Maintenance, Corrective Maintenance, Continuous Improvement, Predictive Maintenance, Equipment Overhauls, and Equipment Upgrades.
Supervision, development, training program and certification needs for the site maintenance team, and the provision of any of the technical services needed to support.
Coach/mentor for the Maintenance Planners and Leads for the factory to ensure deep dives into break down elimination and support preventive maintenance planning.
Monitor performance of PM compliance goals.
Supports Maintenance Leads to prioritize work for execution.
Prioritize work as it pertains to food safety and human safety.
Provide coaching to areas on equipment reliability.
Monitors cash flow per budget (MRO and labor), proposing capital projects where appropriate.
Manage stockroom costs and best practices to site practices.
Ensure critical spare parts and materials are available as needed.
Provide cross functional support with the Engineering Department for capital projects executed at the site.
Support and propose new initiatives to reduce utility costs.
Pursue new technologies to improve operations on the processing lines, packaging lines and utilities equipment.
Follow up with facility team leaders on continuous cost reduction/process improvement ideas and performing other responsibilities as the need arises.
Manage properly conservation systems (alarms, security, sprinklers, fire brigade, etc.).
Comply with all federal, state, local and company regulatory guidelines.
Ensure compliance to PSM guidelines.
Be a key member of a HAZMAT team.
Ensure mechanics and maintenance leads have the proper tools (equipment, training, support, etc.) to support their areas.