The Maintenance Supervisor provides front line safety and engagement-based leadership to achieve top tier results through maintaining their production systems. The Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for building capability in and delivering support to system area owners as well as shift team members supporting plant operations. The Maintenance Supervisor works to eliminate losses following a rigorous daily process that is data driven and focused on root cause elimination. The Maintenance Supervisor is accountable to improve the reliability of their systems through leading their team in maintenance foundational systems, technical problem solving and continuous improvement tools. The Maintenance Supervisor provides direct leadership to the department Maintenance Capability Specialists.
For this role, we anticipate the hours being roughly 7am - 4pm.
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KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Safety
Lead Food and Human Safety through Safety 2.0 leadership principles and standards.
Foster a culture that reduces risk to our people and communities by increasing capability to identify and control critical risk. Specifically, responsible for leading machine safety improvements by assessing HSE risks, prioritizing safeguarding plans to eliminate critical exposures, collaborating on incident analysis to understand risk exposure, and developing safeguarding solutions that enable team members to fail safely.
Cultivate Food Safety Culture that is committed to manufacturing safe food that is compliant with policy and regulatory requirements.
People Leadership and Floor Capability Building
Care for your whole team, fostering retention and engagement
Commitment to personal growth and open to feedback
Coaching and developing employees
Build capability of the team to understand their equipment at a component level in addition to identifying and resolving defects and improving asset life
Analysis of equipment performance and improving component life
Leads portions of the daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly DDS (daily direction setting) meetings, including:
Daily reporting and prioritization of defects found/ fixed as well as total backlog
Daily reporting of breakdowns and effectiveness of Breakdown Elimination process
Contribute to development and execution of the plan for the day
Weekly tracking and reporting of maintenance measurement data - Backlog, MTTC, PM Completion (Indicators of maintenance health)
Identifies and address safety risks related to maintenance activities (standard and non-standard) and prioritizes safety risks identified through DH. Includes maintenance work completed during planned stops.
Deliver spring plan Maintenance & Reliability Costs for the Line/Platform (Materials, Services, OT)
Manage the Maintenance Capability Specialists:
Daily staffing
Directing work for maintenance related activities
Shift Hand-offs
Workbrain/Workforce
Onboarding of employees
Team Development
Pay and Performance management and incentives
Own accuracy and timeliness of performance metrics
Execution of improvement plan actions
Coordination/ execution of shutdown activities
Maintenance Foundational Systems
Lead Defect Handling, Breakdown Elimination, Shop Tools, and Budget Management for their platform
Health of DH system: Leads documentation of standards and coaches the team through the identification, prioritization, and resolution of defects
Leads Breakdown Elimination for their platform team
Manages Shutdown and Downtime activities
Planning & Scheduling: Partner with Maintenance Asset Care Leader to ensure planning, scheduling, and work assignments are being prioritized correctly as it relates to addressing top stops/ losses, including ownership of shutdown planning for the line/platform
Sustaining Performance and Improving Results
Supports development and leads execution of 90-Day improvement plan to deliver glidepath through loss elimination
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
High School Diploma
2+ years of manufacturing, frontline leadership, or technical leadership experience
Demonstrated leadership and working in a highly collaborative environment
Success in driving results through process and teamwork
Building capability and coaching others in building capability
Understanding of the steps to reduce losses and improve performance in a manufacturing setting
Demonstrated technical capability and knowledge of unit operations and machinery (at least one production platform)
Foundational knowledge of data analysis systems (examples: SAP, Maximo, Manufacturing Analytics, MQIS) and decision making for results
Experience in maintenance, reliability, and manufacturing
Strong computer skills
Must have good understanding and a broad range of experience in the following areas:
Materials: metals, plastics, elastomers, composites, coatings, etc.
Fabrication methods: welding, machining, surface treatment, etc.
Engineering skills: reading prints, measuring, and specifying
Fastening and joining: methods and materials
Mechanical, electrical system knowledge
Lubrication principles
Knowledge of the skill level of different crafts
Craft worker experience or very strong knowledge of craft duties and capabilities
Able to lead cross functionally through influence
Able to achieve technical mastery of equipment and develop it in others
Practical knowledge of Maximo and Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
Understanding of maintenance and reliability performance metrics
4+ years of manufacturing, frontline leadership, or technical leadership experience
CMRP, MLTI certifications
ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
International relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of the US) will not be considered.
Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. General Mills will not sponsor applicants for this position for work visas.
Company Overview:
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.