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The Sr. Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for preventative maintenance, property, plant, and equipment. This role ensures the infrastructure provides a safe workplace environment, delivering efficient services, and high customer service levels. Success in this role is defined by optimizing preventative maintenance, property, plant, equipment, environment, health, safety, and capital expenditure. This will be measured by the ability to optimize growth efficiencies – synergies, scale and scope, with a CI methodology.
Major Responsibilities:
Supervise and coordinate activities of team.
Develop written programs/procedures for maintenance shop activities.
Select, coach and develop staff. Set clear expectations to inspire and motivate the team. Manage performance-- recognizing achievement, providing feedback and administering progressive discipline when necessary.
Assist in strategy development and deployment in maintenance area to support corporate objectives and KPIs
Repair or replace in-process production equipment, in response to requests.
Welding and fabrication of machines, guarding, structures and holding mechanisms.
Develop machine design.
Recommend incorporation of new technology for company application where feasible and practical.
Develop, Review and estimate design costs including equipment, installation, labor, materials, preparation, and other related costs.
Collaborate with outside contractors for servicing/repair of all maintenance shop machines that are on a scheduled PM program.
Manage all consumables needed for maintenance shop use.
Act as SAP Super User within functional area as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
A minimum of 10 years of maintenance experience in an operational environment
A minimum of 4 years of experience leading teams, developing people or organizing tasks.
Preferred Qualifications:
Previous experience using SAP or equivalent ERP system (Oracle, JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics) and Microsoft Office.
Formal leadership or team development training.
Experience in Lean or Demand Flow principles.
Continuous improvement focus in previous experience
Project management experience
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Relationship Building and Earning Trust – Consistently follows through on team commitments, communicates, and demonstrates accountability. Builds trust and sets the example for the team by being inclusive and fair.
Accountability – Remains outcome focused, holding the team accountable while removing barriers to success. Plays to win by defining team objectives/scope and clear milestones. Keeps leadership apprised of progress and brings options/solutions for issues when elevated.
Ask, Listen, and Follow Up – Actively listens, questions to help others understand, shows care/concern, and closes loop. Drives action and alignment using coaching techniques, reinforces team's progress/development.
Inspire, Motivate and Recognize – Teaches others new tasks and is self- aware of strengths/developmental opportunities. Celebrates individual successes.
Conflict Management and Resolution – Influences employees to collaborate and achieve goals as a group. Asks questions, remains unbiased and encourages unconventional suggestions. Diffuses conflict as it arises rather than avoiding it and focuses on solving the problem.
Identify, Engage and Retain – Creates an open and honest work environment, providing others an opportunity to develop and grow.
Change Agent – Consistently optimistic about the ability to change in order to improve a product/service. Uses the voice of customer (VOC) to validate ideas. Works well autonomously and in a team, leads change by promoting the value of transformation.
Demonstrated skills to understand mechanical and electrical principles, machine functionality, drawings and schematics.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand. The employee frequently is required to use hands to manipulate objects, tools or controls; and talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to walk; stoop; crouch; bend and reach above shoulders. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds unassisted and up to 100 pounds with assistance, waist high, up to 10 feet away. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and depth perception. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be working in the typical conditions of a manufacturing environment including seasonal variation in temperatures and occasional exposure to manufacturing fumes or by-products. The employee must comply with the assigned location PPE requirements including but not limited to safety glasses, hearing protection, appropriate gloves, clothing and shields for required tasks and closed toed or safety shoes as required by facility safety policies.
“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.”
Generac is the total energy solutions company powering a smarter world. We help free people to use energy on their own terms by giving them access to reliable energy that is also cleaner, more efficient and better managed.
We do this by making homes a sanctuary where people have reliable power so they can safely and comfortably work, learn and entertain. Around the world, our commercial and industrial solutions are trusted to power and support businesses and critical infrastructure to protect against the challenges of an aging power grid, increasingly severe weather and escalating energy demands and rising rates.
As an industry pioneer, we are relentlessly focused on the future of energy management. We’re ushering in a new era of energy solutions where we are exploring new technologies, delivering connected solutions and protecting against increasing energy costs for consumers and commercial users.
