Maintenance Supervisor

**Career Area**:
Manufacturing

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Role Definition

Monitors and improves the maintenance of the production unit by overseeing maintenance staff and equipment; ensures employees comply with safety procedures and standards.

Responsibilities
- Coaching and mentoring teams in order to encourage, motivate, and guide individuals in learning and improving effectiveness.
- Creating work plans for staff and contractors; reviewing the maintenance work performed by technicians.
- Making purchasing decisions and recommendations regarding equipment and tools; training the workers periodically on various maintenance processes and techniques.
- Monitoring the maintenance budget; identifying cost-effective alternatives for current maintenance activities.
- Tracking daily inventories, inspecting production units for wear and tear; ensuring replacements are made on time.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors
Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Level Working Knowledge:

- Contributes to short-term operational plans.
- Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
- Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
- Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
- Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

Conflict Management: Knowledge of managing conflicts; ability to anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level.
Level Extensive Experience:

- Mediates and resolves conflicts among individuals, groups, and departments.
- Practices positive collaboration and converts difficult interactions into productive ones.
- Guides participants in a conflict to rethink their current views.
- Demonstrates good judgment in deciding when to involve a third party.
- Makes parties aware of case studies of constructive and destructive conflicts.
- Surfaces disagreements in early stages.

Level Expert:

- Gains agreement on the problem-solving process, risk assessment, decision points, and criteria.
- Trains others in the process of eliciting alternatives and assessing their impact.
- Orchestrates the resolution of high-impact and cross-functional problems.
- Successfully organizes problem solvers and stakeholders for high-impact problems.
- Predicts and explains long-term trends and implications for alternatives.
- Monitors industry for best practices and new techniques in problem-solving.

Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
Level Working Knowledge:

- Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status.
- Under guidance, plans and estimates simple projects.
- Assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule, and resource requirements.
- Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project.
- Produces standard project status reports.

Manufacturing Preventive Maintenance: Knowledge of manufacturing equipment and its functioning; ability to conduct Preventive Maintenance at scheduled intervals to determine equipment's corrective actions and avoid untimely breakdowns.
Level Extensive Experience:

- Coordinates resources for maintenance, repair, and overhaul of plant equipment.
- Designs procedures for preventive measures to help improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Diagnoses problems and malfunctions in a wide variety of manufacturing equipment.
- Oversees that safety and health standards adhere to the preventive maintenance tasks.
- Trains the subordinates as well as equipment operators on how to prolong the life span of manufacturing equipment.
- Updates preventive maintenance systems for all schedules of manufacturing equipment.

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM): Knowledge of total productive maintenance principles, methods, and processes; ability to maximize machinery effectiveness through active involvement of all supporting departments.
Level Extensive Experience:

- Advises operators to perform routine maintenance tasks on their respective equipment.
- Analyzes plant floor operations; analyzes trends and impleme