Supervisor Utilities

MTR.vet•Laurel, MD

20h•Onsite

About The Position

In this role, they are looking for someone who can provide effective and consistent management of the site engineering practice and operation. They need someone who will consistently achieve production and cost targets minimizing waste and downtime, through effective management and upkeep of the processes, teams and equipment, to ensure that we achieve customer service level with our customers, through the manufacture of products to the right quality and specification. Covering all aspects of food safety. This will be achieved by ensuring that engineering teams are effectively coordinated and managed, through having a clear knowledge and understanding of requirements, providing hands -on technical skills (lead by example), attention to detail and providing all teams with inspiration, guidance, motivation, training and multi -skilling. This role is on the factory floor – definitely a hands -on role – technical utilities skills (maintenance on refrigeration and other industrial equipment) required to train, teach and develop employees. 25% - 30% Maintenance work; 75 -80% Supervision/Training. You will need to ensure smooth running of the factory machinery – either through management of others or fixing the matter directly.

Requirements

5 years of experience troubleshooting, repairing both utilities and industrial equipment and at least that much mentoring and training technicians
5 years of experience working in a food environment and refrigeration systems (may consider other strong industrial maintenance experience)

Responsibilities

Ensure the maintenance plan has purpose and evolves to allow the maximum time available for production, no strip and rebuild for the sake of it! Only replace worn/ broken parts – condition based rather than planned based maintenance.
Drive the tasks through required work from observations and data, not just theoretical plans.
Full evaluation of, cost, availability and requirement to decide if run to failure or replace.
Maintenance always follows production, not the other way around.
Ensure that maintenance tasks adhere to company’s food safety polices at all times.
Ensure all working practices comply with company rules and procedures so that you and any other people using the area of work can do so safely.
Always keep full and up to date records of all equipment to ensure traceability