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Maintenance & Facilities Supervisor

American Seating

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Grand Rapids, MI
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Job Overview:

TITLE: Maintenance and Facilities Supervisor 
REPORTS TO: Plant Manager
DEPARTMENT: Maintenance 
EXEMPTION STATUS: Salary-Exempt, Professional 


POSITION SUMMARY: Guides and directs maintenance team to provide dependable processes and equipment to the manufacturing organization. Continuously strives to drive improvement in machine up-time, production efficiency, and overall plant productivity. Responsible for maintaining and improving the physical aspects of the production facility.

PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Monitors and improves the machine up-time on all major pieces of equipment.
  • Strives for 100% Preventive Maintenance on-time completion.
  • Maintains all inventory and equipment, including proper storage.
  • Develops people, processes, and equipment to achieve the pillars of TPM.
  • Maintains and improves the physical aspects of the production facility.
  • Solves problems with departmental and internal customers.
  • Writes reports, general correspondence, and employee appraisals.
  • Other duties as assigned. 

 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

  • High School Diploma or GED required.
  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering preferred.
  • More than eight years of manufacturing maintenance experience required.


SKILLS REQUIRED:

  • Knowledge of various manufacturing processes including metal fabrication, vacuum forming, robotics, and assembly.
  • Demonstrated application of TPM methodology for machine maintenance.
  • Analytical, problem solving, and communication skills required.


WORKING CONDITIONS:

  • Plant environment with occasional discomfort due to dust, noise and fumes.
  • Extended work hours frequently required.
  • Work requires attention to details, pressures related to meeting deadlines, scheduling requirements and simultaneous projects. Work is frequently interrupted by distracting influences such as people, telephone calls, etc.
  • Work may occasionally require heavy lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying of up to 40 pounds. 


This job description is intended to describe the type and level of work being performed by a person assigned to this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required by a person so classified.