Maintenance Supervisor

PepsiCo • Vancouver, WA

14d • $73,400 - $122,850

About The Position

The Maintenance Supervisor leads a maintenance department that includes Mechanic Leads and mechanics. The role is responsible for developing and motivating the team, ensuring quality performance, and driving cost efficiency and continuous improvement in processes, service, and safety across a business unit and all shifts. The supervisor is accountable for site performance in unplanned downtime, equipment reliability, True Efficiency, and overall maintenance. The role also coaches team members in using processes and facilitates on-floor problem solving.

The position leads Corn Processing strategy and FLNA food safety initiatives within the plant, including food safety, personal safety, and capital expenditures (CAPEX). It provides change leadership while minimizing impacts on employees, develops front-line hourly and salaried personnel through employee relations, hiring, training, and communication, and collaborates with suppliers, internal customers, and cross-functional partners. The role includes regular plant-floor presence, possible exposure to poor weather conditions, and off-shift and weekend work.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of site-based manufacturing experience.
• Ability to think quickly, take initiative, think creatively, and challenge the team to do the same.
• Strong project management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a results-oriented, dynamic environment.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to achieve results through mentoring others.
• Indefinite right to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in engineering, business, operations management, or a similar field.
• Experience in beverage or food manufacturing, or in the Consumer Products Sector (Household & Personal Products Industry).
• Lean Six Sigma experience demonstrated through successful completion of a major improvement project.

Responsibilities

• Develop Mechanic Leads and maintenance teams and hold them accountable for individual, team, and business-unit goals.
• Resolve day-to-day operational issues and achieve short- and long-term performance goals.
• Develop, implement, and lead the Corn Processing strategy, including food safety, personal safety, and CAPEX.
• Develop, implement, and lead FLNA food safety initiatives within the plant.
• Lead business changes while minimizing impacts on employees.
• Build employee capability through employee relations, hiring, training, and communication for front-line hourly and salaried personnel.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to help resolve operational issues.
• Work with suppliers and internal customers to deliver expected results.
• Conduct presentations and formal training programs.
• Coach team members in process use and facilitate problem solving on the plant floor.
• Drive cost efficiency, continuous improvement, service, safety, unplanned downtime, equipment reliability, True Efficiency, and overall maintenance performance.

Benefits

• Performance-based bonus with an eligibility target payout of 8% of annual salary, paid annually.
• Paid time off, subject to eligibility, including vacation, holidays, sick leave, bereavement leave, and parental leave.
• Eligible full-time employees receive a minimum of 15 paid vacation days.
• Eligible full-time employees receive 10 paid holidays annually.
• Eligible full-time employees can accrue up to 10 days (80 hours) of paid sick leave, subject to the stated accrual terms.
• Eligible full-time and part-time regular employees may receive up to three consecutive paid working days of bereavement leave for the death of an immediate family member.
• Eligible employees may receive up to six weeks of paid parental leave.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, health and dependent care reimbursement accounts, Employee Assistance Program, accident insurance, group legal insurance, life insurance, and a defined contribution retirement plan, subject to elections and eligibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed