Maintenance Team Advisor (Supervisor) Job Listing at Schreiber Foods in Mt Vernon, MO (Job ID R0025962)

Description

Job Category: Manufacturing/Operations Job Family: Operations Leadership Job Description:

The Maintenance Team Advisor directly oversees the performance and activities of Maintenance Technicians responsible for the routine and non-routine maintenance activities of their designated area of the facility.

This role reports to the Maintenance Team Leader (Manager). Responsibilities include ensuring the quality of maintenance work in designated area and maintaining the necessary standards of housekeeping and safe work practice. The Maintenance Team Advisor also interfaces with contractors. 

Crossover coverage

4:00 am - 1:00 pm shift

Sunday - Thursday

What you'll do:

Leadership and Team Development

• Supervise and guide a team of maintenance technicians, providing guidance, training, and performance management.
• Coordinate daily maintenance activities, ensuring timely and efficient completion of work orders, daily and weekly schedules.
• Promote teamwork and continuous learning within the team.

Safety & Compliance:

• Promote and enforce a culture of safety by conducting risk assessments, safety audits, and implementing corrective actions as necessary.
• Foster a collaborative and safety-conscious culture, championing health and safety protocols within the maintenance team, ensuring adherence to all OSHA, PSM, FDA, USDA, HACCP, SQF, and food safety standards.
• Serve by example in maintaining a clean and hazard-free work environment

Documentation and Reporting

• Accurately track all maintenance activities, including repairs, parts usage, and downtime events.
• Use of EAM: Utilize enterprise asset management system (EAM) for scheduling, tracking, and documenting team's work orders and equipment history.
• Prepare KPI reports on reliability, maintenance costs, and uptime, to share with management for awareness and improvements.

​Operational Efficiency & Cost Management:

• Implement world-class maintenance practices (TPM, Lean Maintenance, RCM) to ensure production targets are met with minimal downtime.
• Coordinate with production, sanitation, quality, and engineering teams to minimize production disruptions and ensure that maintenance activities are aligned with manufacturing schedules.
• Manage maintenance budgets, controlling costs while optimizing resource utilization and minimizing downtime.
• Evaluate maintenance workflows to identify and implement process improvements that increase efficiency and productivity.
• Track and report key performance indicators (KPIs) on reliability and performance such as equipment uptime, response time to breakdowns, shift overtime and maintenance costs.

 ​Technical Expertise:

• Troubleshoot and resolve mechanical, electrical, and technical issues that arise within the production process.
• Maintain expertise in manufacturing equipment, such as pasteurizers, homogenizers, fillers, packaging machines, and refrigeration systems, ensuring all machinery is operating at peak performance.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams on capital projects and equipment upgrades.
• Precision assembly, lubrication best practices, contamination control applied to all work completed by team.

 ​Preventive and Predictive Maintenance

• Develop, implement, and manage preventive maintenance programs to ensure equipment reliability and longevity.
• Monitor and assess the condition of equipment, using predictive maintenance tools (PdM) to prevent breakdowns and drive reliability.
• Conduct regular inspections and audits to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements providing update feedback to technicians and planners.
• Together with the leadership team, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements. Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups. Establishes and Audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met. Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met, and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelors in Mechanical, Electrical, Biochemical or Biological, Engineering, Industrial Arts, or related technical field preferred, an Associate's degree in a technical field will be considered.
• 1+ years of experience in Industrial work
• Demonstrated leadership experience in a team environment
• General computer skills; mechanical aptitude; interpersonal skills to work from a supplier oriented function
• Ability to travel up to 5%

#INDHO

• Get not one, but TWO retirement benefits. When you join our employee-owned company, you'll be part of our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) from day one. That means in addition to an 8% 401(k) match into the ESOP, Schreiber will contribute an extra amount – about 10% of your earnings – toward your retirement every year. That's a company contribution of around 18% in retirement savings annually!
• Earn bonus pay. You'll have an opportunity to earn incentive pay twice a year when we meet our company goals.
• Earn $ for focusing on your health. Get up to $1,200 for your health savings account each year, plus get reimbursed for fitness membership, equipment or classes.
• Pursue development that's relevant to your role, career goals and the company. Plus, we offer tuition reimbursement if you want to further your education to grow in your role at Schreiber.
• Get access to medical, prescription drug, dental and vision benefits starting day one. This includes an onsite nurse and mental health counselor.
• Experience caring like you've never experienced it before. We have a program that's completely organized by and for other partners who need extra help. It's called Partners Helping Partners. We have hundreds of examples of partners organizing fundraisers to help out others going through a hard time.

Sound like a company you'd like to be a part of? Click Apply.

Need extra assistance with the application process? Contact recruiting@schreiberfoods.com or call 920-437-7601.

​For positions that require any amount of travel: Valid driver's license, auto insurance (at least state minimum- more might be required), acceptable driving record per Schreiber Foods discretion, and vehicle that will ensure applicant can meet the travel necessities of the position are required.

Schreiber requires that an employee have authorization to work in the country in which the role is based. In the event, an applicant does not have current work authorization, Schreiber will determine, in its sole discretion, whether to sponsor an individual for work authorization. However, based on immigration requirements, not all roles are suitable for sponsorship.

An Equal Opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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