Technical Supervisor
About The Position
The Technical Supervisor leads maintenance planning, scheduling, reliability, and storeroom activities to improve equipment performance, reduce downtime, and optimize maintenance resources at a commercial bakery manufacturing plant. The role partners across the bakery to strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance, spare-parts readiness, work execution, and continuous improvement, while ensuring work is performed with a strong focus on employee safety, food safety, quality, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence. This is a 100% on-site position at the Hostess Manufacturing Plant in Columbus, Georgia, primarily on day shift. The role requires flexibility to work off shift, including nights, weekends, and holidays, and to flow to the work as needed. The position operates in a manufacturing environment with potential exposure to noise, moving equipment, temperature variation, food ingredients, cleaning chemicals, and other conditions typical of a commercial bakery.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- At least five years of maintenance experience in a food-manufacturing environment.
- Working knowledge of maintenance planning and scheduling, preventive and predictive maintenance, and reliability-centered maintenance principles.
- Experience using a CMMS and analyzing equipment failures, downtime trends, and maintenance performance data.
- Knowledge of commercial bakery or food-manufacturing equipment, food safety requirements, and safe maintenance practices.
- Ability to coordinate planned work, contractors, vendors, and multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Word.
- Ability to meet the physical requirements of the role, including sitting, standing, walking, bending, reaching, climbing stairs or ladders, and lifting up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to regularly talk and hear; frequently stand, walk, use hands and fingers to handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms; and occasionally sit, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Ability to lift objects up to 50 pounds frequently and push and pull heavy objects.
- Vision abilities including close, distance, and color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
- Willingness to work off shift, including nights, weekends, and/or holidays, and flow to the work as needed.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in maintenance planning, reliability leadership, or storeroom and spare-parts management.
- Experience with systems such as CAMS, SAP Plant Maintenance, IBM Maximo, or a similar CMMS.
- Experience with inventory control, cycle counting, critical spare-parts strategy, and maintenance purchasing.
- Electrical, electronic, and mechanical troubleshooting knowledge.
- Experience facilitating root-cause analysis and using continuous-improvement or Operations Excellence tools.
- Strong communication, coaching, collaboration, and problem-solving skills across technical and operations teams.
Responsibilities
- Build, prioritize, and maintain weekly and long-range maintenance schedules aligned with production needs and equipment reliability priorities.
- Plan maintenance work by coordinating labor, parts, tools, contractors, permits, and other required resources.
- Manage the maintenance backlog and work-order priorities within the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
- Coach and develop the department on CMMS and Operations Excellence tools and systems.
- Lead preventive and predictive maintenance performance, including PM completion, schedule compliance, and program improvements.
- Lead storeroom operations, including inventory accuracy, cycle counting, receiving, organization, and critical spare-parts availability.
- Provide coaching and direction to the Storeroom Leader/Buyer and build team capability in CMMS and Operations Excellence tools.
- Analyze downtime, work-order, and asset-performance data to identify recurring failures and reliability improvement opportunities.
- Facilitate root-cause analysis and ensure corrective actions are assigned, completed, and sustained.
- Ensure planned maintenance and reliability activities attend to food quality, safe processes, legal requirements, and continuous improvement.
- Serve as the Quality Assurance Key Element owner for equipment and maintenance requirements.
- Serve as a Safety Key Element owner.
- Attend and actively participate in daily direction-setting meetings and weekly line scorecard reviews.
- Partner with Sanitation, Operations Excellence, Operations, and Maintenance to improve equipment performance, sanitation outcomes, asset utilization, and planned work execution.
- Coordinate contractors and vendors, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and within the defined scope.
- Track and communicate maintenance performance, including PM completion, backlog aging, planned versus unplanned work, downtime, schedule compliance, and inventory results.
- Support equipment installation, startup, capital projects, and other bakery improvement initiatives.
- Maintain accurate maintenance, reliability, inventory, and purchasing records while retaining an active floor presence to support safety, quality, and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
