Maintenance Technical Supervisor

fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

With nearly $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife’s portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes: fairlife® ultra-filtered milk; Core Power® High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife® nutrition plan™, a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com.

The construction of fairlife's manufacturing facility in Webster, NY is underway. This state-of-the-art, 750k sq ft, greenfield plant is expected to be operational in late 2025 and will lay the foundation for fairlife's next phase of growth as the leading dairy nutrition provider. While coupling the industry’s latest technologies and fairlife's operational excellence to build this world-class facility, fairlife plans to hire 250 new employees and bring in approximately 5 million lbs. of milk a day, with room to grow over the coming years. 

job purpose: The Maintenance Technical Supervisors will be part of the management team within fairliife, LLC. reporting to the Maintenance Manager. The maintenance staff is tasked with the upkeep of buildings and grounds, processing, packaging, utility, and automated warehousing equipment needed to operate and maintain the facility.   

 

Under limited supervision, the Maintenance Technical Supervisors are responsible for overseeing the work of assigned maintenance staff to ensure safe and efficient equipment maintenance of the facility. The Maintenance Technical Supervisors will be responsible for the mechanical staff across multiple shifts and will work together to manage the teams’ workloads. In addition, each Maintenance Technical Supervisor will be responsible for monitoring the maintenance strategy effectiveness of an area of the facility as assigned.   

 

responsibilities:  

• Supervises and coordinates the daily activities of the maintenance mechanical personnel as assigned. Schedules maintenance employees according to forecasted workloads 

• Ensures adherence to company safety standards, policies, and procedures. Ensures maintenance staff correctly wears and uses safety equipment, as required. Also, ensures that all safety inspections are completed as required and as well as adherence to company policies.  

• Ensures the teams’ adherence to customer service standards. Works with maintenance staff to ensure that production, processing and facility maintenance equipment issues are dealt with in a timely manner and that proper follow-through is done 

• Reviews the operation of plant equipment to minimize unplanned downtime and identify opportunities for improvement  

• Responsible for the safe maintenance, trouble shooting, root cause analysis, repair and replacement of plant equipment and systems, to ensure maximum productivity and quality  

• Maintains systems for monitoring and tracking service requests, preventive maintenance work performed, compliance with Hazard Communications program requirements, compliance with safety requirements, supplies and parts inventories, purchases, and turn-key operations  

• Oversees and ensures the computerized maintenance management system for tracking work orders, spare parts, and maintenance history of plant equipment is maintained and updated timely, accurately, and promptly 

• Keeps shop areas in a neat, well-stocked, clean, organized manner, per company visual control, audit ready standards and programs 

• Assists maintenance manager with yearly and monthly maintenance operating budgets in line with facility objectives. Assists with preparation of re-forecasts, re-builds or project costs, and adherence to budgeted cost parameters as required 

• Works with the Maintenance Supply Supervisor to maintain sufficient inventories of tools, parts and supplies to properly maintain the facility and property. May order and purchase supplies, equipment and contract work according to required purchasing and bidd