Maintenance Supervisor

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, managing the day to day plant maintenance, directly supervising the activities of the front line maintenance employees charged with the performance and verification of the mechanical and electrical work in the plant; coordinate and monitor the activities of all maintenance employees assigned; participate in the identification of training needs for assigned plant maintenance personnel and coordinate training; participate in appropriate safety training for all assigned employees; ensure that preventive action is taken to avoid the occurrence of nonconformities relating to product or process or to the quality system; recommend solutions to problems related to the product or process, or to the quality system; participate in the coordination of repairs during outages to maintain a safe and effective flow of work to reduce downtime with the main focus on planned/repair mechanical and electrical maintenance; participate in the supervision of the installation and testing of mechanical and electrical equipment, and other duties as assigned. 

Responsibilities  (main areas of responsibilities of the position) 

• Provide leadership to ensure all company safety rules and regulations in accordance with Mine Health & Safety Act are observed by employees.  This includes planning the necessary resources in manpower and budgeting to accomplish site safety goals in the PaSSE and SHARP plans, and monitoring the safety program and its effectiveness to ensure a safe workplace 

• Participate in appropriate safety training for all assigned employees 

• Interface with MSHA and other governing health and safety agencies at local and federal level as required 

• Follow up investigations working with Safety Committee, and others as needed 

• Coordinate and monitor the activities of all maintenance employees assigned 

• Ensure preventative action is taken to avoid the occurrence of nonconformities relating to product or process or to the quality system 

• Ensures correct, accurate, and timely reporting of information on all maintenance Work Orders, including “Urgent Repairs” 

• Recommend solutions to problems related to the product or process, or to the quality system, and, when approved, participates in the implementation, management and verification of those solutions 

• Provide technical and tactical support to the Maintenance Team, Engineer, Production and Project Manager to maximize kiln efficiency and minimize unscheduled down time