Maintenance Supervisor

Maple Leaf Foods • Indianapolis, IN

28d • Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for the safe, disciplined, and effective execution of maintenance activities to support plant reliability, safety, and production performance. This role owns day-to-day maintenance execution, technician leadership, and schedule adherence, ensuring work is completed as planned and standards are consistently enforced. The Maintenance Supervisor serves as the primary execution link between Maintenance Planning, Reliability, and Operations. The role is critical in stabilizing a reactive maintenance environment by reducing emergency work, improving work order quality, developing technician capability, and restoring confidence in the maintenance system.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Maintenance Technology or related field or 5–10 years of progressive industrial maintenance supervisory experience.
• Proven success stabilizing high-reactive maintenance environments.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to coach, correct, and develop diverse technician skill sets.
• Experience working within a CMMS-driven maintenance organization.
• Technical knowledge of industrial electrical systems, PLCs, motor controls, mechanical systems, pneumatics, and automated equipment.
• Familiarity with predictive and condition-based maintenance tools.
• Knowledge of OSHA and applicable regulatory requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Food or regulated manufacturing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Enforce all safety standards including LOTO, confined space, hot work, and permit-to-work requirements. Exercise stop-work authority for unsafe conditions or behaviors.
• Ensure maintenance work complies with environmental and wastewater requirements and escalate abnormal conditions immediately.
• Hold technicians accountable for housekeeping and job-site restoration as part of every task.
• Own execution of the published weekly maintenance schedule and drive >90% schedule compliance.
• Control and challenge break-in and emergency work; ensure true emergencies are clearly defined and documented.
• Lead daily maintenance execution meetings and shift handovers.
• Monitor work order progress multiple times per shift and actively remove barriers to completion.
• Escalate systemic schedule disruptions to Maintenance Management and Operations.
• Actively manage maintenance backlog health, aging, and prioritization.
• Ensure all work orders meet CMMS quality standards including labor hours, failure codes, comments, and completion status.
• Verify accuracy and completeness of work orders before returning them to Planning.
• Review job delays and variance between planned vs. actual labor to identify improvement opportunities.
• Assign work based on demonstrated competency, not availability.
• Hold technicians accountable for work quality, documentation, safety compliance, and standard work.
• Conduct regular skills assessments against the skills matrix and implement corrective training plans.
• Remove technicians from complex or critical work when competency gaps are identified.
• Lead mentoring and apprentice development programs.
• Ensure planned jobs are executed as written and provide structured feedback to Planning for job plan improvement.
• Verify tools, parts, kits, and materials are staged and ready prior to job execution.
• Partner with Reliability by providing high-quality execution feedback, failure observations, and data to support Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) and PM optimization.
• Ensure defective parts and assemblies are routed for repair or rebuild promptly.
• Support Preventive and Predictive Maintenance execution and compliance.
• Participate in Root Cause Failure Analysis for major or chronic failures as required.
• Track and improve maintenance execution KPIs including schedule compliance, PM completion, emergency work percentage, and value-added maintenance work.
• Ensure maintenance standardization and continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits

• Competitive Health and Wellness benefits that offer flexibility to meet your individual or family needs, including programs focused on improving mental health and wellbeing. These benefits start on your first day of employment.
• Defined Contribution Pension Plan with company matching that starts on your first day of employment.
• Learning and development opportunities, including workshops, ‘speaker series’ events, and resources that allow you to develop your skills and progress your career.
• Comprehensive tuition reimbursement program that supports continuous learning and development of our team members through investment in eligible degrees, diplomas, professional certification, or trades programs.
• Up to two paid days annually to volunteer at a cause of your choice.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager