Maintenance Supervisor - PM shift

Join Riverside Natural Foods Ltd., a $300 million+ Canadian-based, family-owned, and globally operating business, committed to leaving the world better than we found it. As a B-Corp certified, Triple-Bottom Line company, we proudly manufacture nutritious, 'better-for-you' snacks such as MadeGood and GOOD TO GO. We value teamwork, humility, respect, ownership, adaptability, grit, and fun.

We’re on an ambitious mission to double our business by 2027, and we need talented individuals like you to help us reach new heights. At Riverside, you’ll have the opportunity to chart your own path to success while contributing to ours. We believe anything worth doing is worth doing right, and our values will guide us through the rugged terrain – and yes, it will get rough. But that’s what makes the journey worthwhile.

So, lace up your boots and let’s tackle the climb together.

You can learn more about us at www.riversidenaturalfoods.com.

Position:             Maintenance Supervisor

Department:      Operations

Position Summary/Objective: 

The mandate of this position is to lead the implementation of Riverside’s Asset Reliability Program at Riverside. The goal of the program is to ensure production equipment at Riverside operates at optimum efficiency and effectiveness through the implementation of Best-in-Class Asset Reliability Methods.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate and uphold Riverside’s Core Values.
• Understand and enforce Health and Safety policies and procedures.
• Understand and enforce Riverside’s Food Safety policies and procedures.
• Assist in annual maintenance budget preparation.
• Assist in the development of annual maintenance priority objectives and vision.
• Unplanned Maintenance

• Utilize equipment troubleshooting skills to solve complex issues and guide the team to equipment troubleshooting excellence.
• Liaise with outside vendors if needed to solve problems and develop corrective actions for equipment failures.
• Liaise with different stakeholders to coordinate maintenance team efforts to achieve the DAILY goal
• Ensure downtimes are correctly documented, root cause analyses are completed, corrective actions are taken, and corrective action information is passed down to the Technician level (know/do/teach)

• Planned/ Preventive Maintenance

• Review work requests, plan, and PRIORITIZE work orders
• Prepare a weekly schedule for a maintenance technician to execute
• Hold WO start-up meetings and provide guidance on WO
• Provide leadership to the team to ensure schedule compliance
• Lead the team to develop, implement and continually improve Preventive Maintenance programs. Introduce strategies to incorporate Predictive methods.

• Technical Skills Development for Maintenance Technicians

• Identify knowledge gaps based on familiarity with equipment, experience, and ability to perform preventive maintenance.
• Develop a skill matrix for the team of maintenance technicians.
• Develop, implement, and document training plans.
• Provide mentorship to maintenance technicians.

• Asset Management
• Ability to initiate and take OWNERSHIP to develop solutions to repetitive failures and any other issues affecting operations by reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) and failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA).
• Audit preventive maintenance work to ensure quality work is performed and provide technical insight into Preventive Maintenance Optimization efforts.
• Support new CAPEX projects through verification of spare parts availability, timely training programs, commissioning support, and developing preventive maintenance program.
• Assist in setting up and maintaining spare part inventory

• Continuous improvement

• Provide leadership to implement an effective Continuous Improvement Program. Promote ideas to be brought forward from the floor to support Kaizen culture and drive towards Best-in-Class operating efficiencies.
• Lead the Root Cause Failure Analysis effort for equipment failures.
• Act as a change agent, working with various departmental groups to assist in building a CI culture using tools such as Kaizen, SMED, and Lean
• Act as Subject Matter Expert in cross-functional CI initiatives

• Leadership

• Provide guidance, coaching, and mentoring to the Maintenance Team through the supervisory responsibilities of the position.
• Ensure process compliance with and retrain if needed.

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