Job Description
Job Description
MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR
Vicksburg Forest Products is now seeking applications for maintenance supervisor. Previous maintenance experience is required, including but not limited to: millwright, welding and electrical. This role is 1st shift Monday-Friday.
Responsibilities
- Foster a safe work environment, ensure maintenance personnel are practicing "best safe work practices", lead the identification and mitigation of all work hazards for the jobs performed prior to work commencing.
- Assist in promoting a continuous improvement culture through communication and coaching employees as well as finding opportunities for streamlining production activities and enhancing value-added processes.
- Develop, implement and maintain maintenance team schedules and detailed maintenance planning schedules that drive continuous improvement and support all elements of plant mechanical/electrical functions.
- Responsible for cost control and benchmarking, planning, scheduling and other high-level managerial tasks.
- Takes measures to proactively address all concerns.
- Demonstrate strong leadership and training by leading manufacturing principles and events with supervision.
- Ensure quality standards and order specifications are met throughout the manufacturing process of the wide range of products.
- Other Duties as needed.
Required Skills
- Minimum five (5) years of experience in a maintenance management level role in an industrial or manufacturing environment with a demonstrated ability in safely delivering operational excellence.
- Demonstrated experience in safely leading manufacturing processes, predictive and preventative maintenance, productivity, and/or cost process improvements.
- Excellent team-building and motivational skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Solid analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Previous wood products manufacturing management experience.
- Lean manufacturing/5S experience a plus.
Environmental Conditions:
- Must be able to tolerate extreme hot, humid, cold, and outdoor conditions. Comfortable working in loud environment, around moving machinery, with vibrations and airborne particles (sawdust).