Maintenance Supervisor - growing manufacturing start-up site

There is a newly created Maintenance Supervisor role at a growing manufacturing site in Lebanon, KY facility where selected candidate is accountable for maintaining the integrity, reliability, and basic operating condition of all plant assets to ensure safe, compliant, and uninterrupted operation. The role is responsible for maximizing equipment uptime by increasing mean time between failures while minimizing mean time to repair through effective preventive and corrective maintenance strategies. Using performance data and reliability insights, will drive disciplined maintenance execution and continuous improvement to support stable operations and long-term asset performance. This start up site is with an international and established company. Will supervise 2 people in this role. This position reports to the Site Leader at this location. There are major company benefits with attractive medical, 5% bonus potential, 100% match on the 401k TO 5% and on a discretionary basis there could be up to an additional 5%.

Summary: The above is a summary of the key duties the job-holder is expected to perform. It is possible that from time to time you will be requested to carry out other duties, which are not listed in this job specification.

Person Specification

Key Skills (Essential):

• Permit to work experience
• Excellent mathematical skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Integrity & Honesty
• Natural attention to detail
• Exceptional organizational & planning skills
• An ability to problem solve and more importantly to pro-actively problem solve at times without guidance
• Ability to analyze data and recognize trends
• Ability to work off own initiative, multi-task and work at a fast pace
• Analytical and critical thinking skills;
• Excellent IT skills especially advanced knowledge of Excel
• Experience of, or can clearly demonstrate, an ability to lead a team.

(Preferred):

• Leadership and soft skills training and/or experience
• Experience of working under remit of a quality management system and/or compliance quality standards
• Experience of purchase ordering systems and/or maintenance management systems
• Budget management training and/or experience
• Auditing experience (training can be provided)
• Ideally, some knowledge of the industry/sector.

Experience (Essential):

• At least 5 years’ experience working in a modern dynamic manufacturing business
• Can demonstrate strong experience of leading a small maintenance team and/or planning and executing maintenance activities
• Experience of plant operations and meeting production targets in same or similar industry

(Preferred):

• Experience of Anaerobic digestion or a closely related operation
• Experience of setting up a new site and/or commissioning activities would be a distinct advantage
• Experience setting up a CMMS system
• Experience of auditing
• Safety qualifications and Certifications
• Six Sigma or similar process related training

Principles & Behaviors:

These provide guidance to support us in working together as one team. Working this way, we will be continually improving to ensure that we stay ahead of our competition.

Core Spirit

(CO – Collaborative; RE S – Responsible; PI – Pioneering; T – Talented)

COLLABORATIVE:

Working together to share knowledge across the Company’s Family; no silos, no fences but bridges and open minds. We all have a part to play, working within our own teams and collaborating across teams. We encourage partnership style working throughout all functions allowing us to combine knowledge, skills and expertise. We use our whole talent pool to overcome everyday challenges and achieve our goals.

RESPONSIBLE:

We take personal responsibility for ensuring that Health & Safety excellence and protecting the environmentare embedded in everything we do. We do what we say we will, when we say we will do it and we take responsibility and ownership. We are trustworthy (honest and true to ourselves and all those we work with). We are respectful – treating each other as we would want to be treated. We acknowledge the benefits of confidentiality and protecting our innovations and ideas to ensure that the company always maintains its competitive advantage.

PIONEERING:

We encourage thinking and behavior that differentiates us from our competition. We openly and respectfully challenge thought processes, we ‘think outside the box’ and we always share innovative ideas and good practice across our teams. We continue to lead the way in developing our technologies to deliver a sustainable, low carbon future.

TALENTED:

We use our knowledge, experience and skills to the best of our ability to ensure we all deliver to the highest standards in our own roles. We utilize the ‘hidden talents’ that we might possess for the wider interests of the company. In return, appreciation will be shown through recognition, reward, training & development and opportunities to progress within the company family.