Maintenance Supervisor

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

 

Supervises all the activities of maintenance personnel engaged in all facets of the operations function. Assumes authority for maintenance personnel actions and oversees day to day operations of professionals and/or skilled technical employees. Relies on extensive experience and judgment to troubleshoot, plan, and coordinate equipment repairs and upkeeping. Contributes to performance management of maintenance personnel through constant feedback and addresses issues pertaining to training, wages, hiring and terminating. This position is targeted at facilities with multiple modalities or campus environments with multiple buildings.

What you will do

 

Operational Excellence (30%)

• Ensures equipment planned and unplanned repairs and preventative maintenance activities are performed accurately; verifying maintenance personnel workmanship and addressing deficiencies as needed.
• Ensures reports, records, and/or work orders are submitted and completed immediately following the respective activities.
• Ensures initiation and completion of Change Control Evaluations are completed prior to performing changes. Emergency repairs/changes are an exception.
• Monitors and maintains activities associated with spare parts, part ordering, equipment downtime, work orders, preventative maintenance schedule, and calibration schedule.

People Leadership (as applicable) (30%)

• Assigns and oversees daily tasks of the maintenance personnel and ensures performance of tasks are completed in a timely and high-quality manner.
• Provides team with guidance and support to ensure tasks are completed as scheduled; gets involved with repairs and/or preventative maintenance tasks when lacking resources to ensure meeting deadlines.
• Provides and coordinates maintenance support during off shift emergencies; communicates off shift activities to the management team.
• Coordinates with contractors for work being performed at the facilities.
• Leads staff through coaching, counseling, motivating, and disciplining as needed. Promotes teamwork through intra- and inter-department cooperation.
• Maintains mechanical and technical skills, knowledge, and abilities by attending workshops, reviewing trade publications, and participating in repairs to equipment, machinery, etc.
• Drives safe working behavior by demonstrating and promoting safe work performance, anticipating safety training needs, and counseling and training employees. Leads by example.

Delivering Results (30%)

• Maintains a safe, clean, and secure working environment by enforcing adherence to all safety procedures, rules, and regulations; monitoring all safety and security systems and procedures on a constant basis; advising management of unsafe work practices and/or conditions; supporting plant safety meetings that evaluate machinery, equipment and working conditions.
• Provides timely status updates to the Maintenance Manager on projects, repairs, and/or tasks completion.
• Contributes to a team effort by performing in accordance with all STERIS policies, GMP, Lean principles and other directives; supports the directives and decisions of higher-level management and performs other duties as assigned.
• Ensures compliance with Corporate QSRC and GMP procedures by monitoring established programs; monitoring training requirements and conducting in depth investigations on equipment difficulty related nonconformities.
• Communicates effectively and in a courteous and respectful manner; provides timely and accurate responses on the status of maintenance tasks.

Customer Relationships (10%)

•  Ensures Customer service and satisfaction through professional and timely responses to internal and external Customer needs.

What you will need to be successful

 

• Bachelor's Degree. Number of years’ experience and type accepted in lieu of degree:11 Years.
• 3+ years of related experience.
• Requires ability to read, interpret and practical application of electrical ladder diagrams and mechanical blueprints.
• Requires working knowledge of PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) or other types of process control equipment.
• Requires ability to effectively read, write, and verbally communicate in English.
• Requires ability to work independently under general guidelines and supervision.
• Requires computer skills and word processing, spreadsheet, and software capabilities.
• Requires effective interpersonal skills as demonstrated through prior experience.
• Above average organizing, ana