Maintenance Supervisor

Application Deadline: 15 May 2025

Department: Manufacturing / Operations / Quality

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: US - Oklahoma - Oklahoma City 2

Description

Individual is responsible for supervising hourly maintenance personnel who troubleshoot and maintain equipment while meeting budgetary goals for safety, quality, and costs. 

Key Responsibilities

• Hands on position
• Leads the activities of the maintenance team members.  
• Manages employee performance, hiring, discipline, development, and recourse planning.  
• Implements and maintains safety standards as required by law and company policy.  
• Manages the maintenance work schedule. Coordinates maintenance shutdown projects. 
• Ensures the appropriate level of accountability for maintenance goals and objectives.  
• Monitors and takes appropriate timely improvement action to meet operational equipment effectiveness goals.  
• Follows up on equipment repairs to ensure quality specifications are met and takes immediate corrective action to correct any substandard work. 
• Actively participates in cross-functional teams to help achieve the department goals. 
• Reviews preventative maintenance procedures to ensure proper utilization of manpower and equipment effectiveness. 
• Reviews reoccurring maintenance and/or repair problems with manufacturing engineering to help determine the appropriate action to correct the root cause.  
• Leads continuous improvement activities for assigned functions. 
• Implements and maintains 5S standards for assigned maintenance areas 
• Performs other related duties as required or assigned. 

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Supervises supervisory and/or non-supervisory employee(s). 
• Interviewing and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance, rewarding, and disciplining employees; assisting in addressing complaints and resolving problems. 
• Working with Human Resources on employee issues. 

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• Effectively communicates information and responds to questions in person-to-person and small group situations. 
• Maintains confidentiality and uses discretion with business information. 
• Reads and understands documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. 
• Writes routine reports and correspondence. 
• Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides numbers (using currency and other forms of measurement). 
• Utilizes common-sense understanding in order to carry out written, oral, or diagrammed instructions. 
• Deals with problems involving several unknown variables in various situations. 
• Plans the time, method, manner, and/or performance sequence of own work; will also assist in planning work assignments performed by others within maintenance operation. 
• Frequently makes decisions of both minor and major importance, which may affect the work operations of other employees and/or clientele to a moderate degree. 
• Uses complex and noncomplex machines and equipment 
• Visually distinguishes and interprets wording and symbols from such work tools as blueprints, work instructions, books, manuals, and computer screens. 
• Multitasks projects involving employee, machine, and material issues. 

  Education and Experience 

• injection molding or plastic processing experience (preferred)
• Equivalent of four years of high school (required) 
• Minimum ten years of technical troubleshooting experience (required). 
• Minimum of five years of supervisory experience of technical trades (required). 
• Bachelor Degree in manufacturing or a related field (preferred). 
• Experience with continuous improvement, Six Sigma methodology (Green or Black Belt), and/or lean manufacturing (preferred). 

  Computer Skills 

• Intermediate: Alphanumeric data entry, spreadsheet. 
• Basic: Word processing/typing, Internet browser. 

  Certificates and Licenses 

• None. 

  PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES 

• While performing the functions of this job, the employee is: 
• Regularly required to sit and to talk or hear. 
• Frequently required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. 
• Occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. 
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 poun