Job Description
Job Description
Our client, a global food manufacturer in Kansas City, KS, is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor for a 12-month contract position.
We’re seeking Maintenance Supervisors to provide leadership and technical oversight for maintenance operations in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. The positions are on-site, with openings on 2nd and 3rd shifts.
Training will take place on 1st shift from 6:00 AM–2:00 PM.
- 2nd Shift Opening: 2:00 PM–10:00 PM
- 3rd Shift Opening: 10:00 PM–6:00 AM
Global company with a great employment brand, culture and working environment!
Position overview:
The Maintenance Supervisor leads maintenance personnel to ensure manufacturing equipment, machinery, and facilities operate safely, reliably, and efficiently with minimal unplanned downtime. This role combines hands-on technical oversight, workforce leadership, preventive and predictive maintenance execution, and strong compliance discipline.
The supervisor is accountable for daily maintenance execution, workforce development, equipment reliability, and continuous improvement aligned with site KPIs and business objectives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Train, coach, supervise, motivate, and evaluate maintenance technicians across multiple shifts.
- Assign daily and weekly work, manage schedules and overtime, track performance, and support ongoing skill and professional development.
- Optimize work order assignment and execution through effective communication, clear priorities, and strong follow-up.
- Drive individual and team accountability to ensure work is completed safely, on time, and to quality workmanship standards.
- Develop, execute, and continuously improve preventive maintenance plans for production and facility assets.
- Coordinate routine, planned, emergency, and seasonal maintenance activities while minimizing production impact.
- Direct and oversee repairs involving mechanical, electrical, controls, pneumatic, hydraulic, and automation systems.
- Provide technical guidance and hands-on support for complex troubleshooting on the production floor as needed.
- Lead root-cause problem solving using structured methodologies such as 5 Whys, A3, and breakdown elimination.
- Ensure permanent corrective actions are implemented to prevent repeat failures.
- Ensure accurate and timely completion of maintenance documentation, including work orders, repairs, inspections, compliance records, audits, labor reporting, and daily shift entries in SAP.
- Enforce safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements, including OSHA and GMP standards.
- Conduct inspections, lead safety training, ensure required PPE use, and maintain adherence to safety policies and procedures.
- Execute Safety 7s and Golden 6s in alignment with departmental goals.
- Support maintenance spending within budget objectives and assist with cost-control initiatives and spare-parts usage.
- Coordinate contractors and vendors to ensure safe, effective, and compliant work execution.
- Perform routine equipment, facility, and process audits to identify risks, reliability gaps, and improvement opportunities.
- Partner with Production, Operations, Safety, Quality, Engineering, Sanitation, and site leadership to align maintenance activities with production goals.
- Improve equipment reliability, uptime, associate labor utilization, and key performance indicators through lean and continuous improvement efforts.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Required:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in maintenance execution, planning, or scheduling within a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading or supervising skilled trades or maintenance technicians in a multi-shift operation.
- Experience using CMMS platforms and maintenance data.
- Experience with Time and Attendance systems.
- Strong knowledge of maintenance execution, planning, and scheduling in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Demonstrated leadership or supervisory experience with skilled trades or maintenance technicians in a multi-shift operation.
- Working knowledge of CMMS platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Fiix, Maximo, or UpKeep.
- Knowledge of maintenance performance analytics.
- Strong understanding of Bills of Material (BOMs), task-list development, job plans, and work auditing.
- Experience administering Time and Attendance systems such as Kronos, ADP, software applications, and mobile applications to track and reconcile employee hours, absences, and breaks.
- Ability to work with maintenance data, develop actionable insights, and support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and leadership skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a 24/7 environment.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively across teams and departments.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
- Comfort with data visualization and reporting tools.
- Technical understanding of mechanical, electrical, controls, pneumatic, hydraulic, and automation systems.
- Experience with failure analysis, breakdown elimination, A3, 5 Whys, and other lean problem-solving methodologies.
- Experience with predictive maintenance technologies.
- Knowledge of Reliability Maintenance principles.
- Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing, TPM, or Six Sigma methodologies.
- Experience with predictive maintenance technologies and Reliability Maintenance principles.
- Experience with lean problem-solving methodologies, Lean Manufacturing, TPM, or Six Sigma.
Education Required:
- High school diploma or GED.
Education Preferred:
- Associate or bachelor’s degree in Maintenance Technology, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
Our hiring process:
After submitting your resume, one of our experienced recruiters will review it and reach out to you within a few business days if they’d like to discuss next steps.