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Supervisor, Maintenance
Great Kitchens Food Company, Inc. • Chicago Heights, IL 60411 • Posted 9 days ago
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The Supervisor, Maintenance at Great Kitchens Food Company, Inc. is responsible for maintaining systems and equipment by completing preventive maintenance schedules, restoring, repairing, rebuilding, or replacing faulty or inoperative components and parts, and supervising staff. This role ensures that products meet the company's standards and specifications, maintains food safety and quality standards, and provides strong leadership and guidance to maintenance techs.
Responsibilities
- Ensures that our products meet the company's standards and specifications
- Complete, legible and accurate documentation
- Understand and follow all company Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP's)
- Maintain food safety and quality standard requirements daily
- Understand and comply with the company Allergen, Food Defense and HACCP policies
- Communicate with Supervision of any Food Safety and Equipment concerns
- Follow all Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) for the area worked
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships
- Never abuse equipment
- Work with Supervision and maintenance to maintain equipment in good working condition
- Perform in a fast paced environment
- Correct weighing and recording of any waste to be disposed of
- Follow all work instructions
- Perform all other work assigned duties as required by Supervision
- Keep work area and machinery clean
- Use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as necessary for task at hand
- Maintain a safe and clean work environment
- Provide strong leadership and guidance to maintenance techs
Qualifications
Required
- High School Diploma or GED
- Formal training or experience in general maintenance or other maintenance responsibilities
- Possession of relevant technical knowledge
- Possess high level of safety awareness
- Must possess clerical ability
- Must possess good communication skills
Preferred
- Relevant undergraduate degree or certification
- Experience in the food industry
- Strong knowledge of low voltage and high voltage electrical systems
- Proficient in troubleshooting electrical issues and conducting repairs
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Full Job Description
Job Title
Location
Department
Reporting to
Position Purpose
Maintains systems and equipment by completing preventive maintenance schedules; restoring, repairing, rebuilding, or replacing faulty or inoperative components and parts; supervising staff.
Key Accountabilities
Responsibilities
Skills, Experience & Qualifications
Education, Technical Qualifications, Experience and Competencies Proficiency Level
Required
Preferred
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Food Safety / Quality
- Supervisor, Maintenance
Location
- Chicago Heights, IL
- Weekend Friday-Monday
Department
- Maintenance
Reporting to
- Maintenance Manager
Position Purpose
Maintains systems and equipment by completing preventive maintenance schedules; restoring, repairing, rebuilding, or replacing faulty or inoperative components and parts; supervising staff.
Key Accountabilities
- Ensures that our products meet the company's standards and specifications
- Complete, legible and accurate documentation
- Must understand and follow all company Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP's)
- Food Safety and Quality Standard Requirements are being maintained daily
- Must understand and comply with the company Allergen, Food Defense and HACCP policies
- Must communicate with Supervision of any Food Safety and Equipment concerns
- Follows all Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) for the area worked
- Establishes and maintains effective working relationships
- Never abuse equipment
- Work with Supervision and maintenance to maintain equipment in good working condition
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment
- Correct weighing and recording of any waste to be disposed of
- Follows all work instructions
- Perform all other work assigned duties as required by Supervision
- Keep work area and machinery clean
- Use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as necessary for task at hand
- Never use damaged pallets
- Must comply with all safety policies and procedures at all times
- Utilize all safety devices
- Report any unsafe work practices or injuries to your supervisor
- Required to maintain a safe and clean work environment
- Required to supply own basic hand tools
- Maintains a constant presence on production floor in order to identify potential issues with machinery
- Ability to read and interpret technical manuals, schematics, and blueprints
- Provide strong leadership and guidance to maintenance techs, instilling sense of urgency, safety, and pride in work
Responsibilities
- Assists Maintenance Manager in maintaining the facility and equipment in a safe and operational state of readiness at all times in order to meet daily production requirements
- Supervises the established preventative maintenance program which includes lubrication, inspections and engineering sanitation schedules to minimize production down time
- Participates in the selection, training and development of the engineering department staff
- Assists in the scheduling of engineering staff to support schedules, production and non-production hours
- Helps maintain the engineering department's shop and equipment
- Assists in purchasing and maintaining proper inventory levels of equipment spare parts
- Consults with Maintenance Manager on long and short term improvement needs
- Assists the Maintenance Manager in managing the engineering department within all policy and budgetary guidelines
- Facilitates open communication with each subordinate and department head to ensure equipment problems are addressed on a timely basis
- Assists in maintaining comprehensive and complete engineering records, including preventative maintenance manuals and capital expenditure requests
- Contributes to the production of a consistent quality product through maintaining and updating facility engineering practices
- Establishes and maintains effective working relationships and two-way communication with co-workers and other personnel throughout the company
- Supports quality control programs to ensure production procedures are in compliance with best practices food safety and quality standards
- Assists maintenance techs in troubleshooting and repair of equipment
- Assists maintenance techs with machine PM's to improve machine reliability
- Other duties assigned by manager
Skills, Experience & Qualifications
- Possession of relevant technical knowledge.
- Possess high level of safety awareness.
- Must possess clerical ability.
- Must possess good communication skills to interact with different groups of people effectively.
- Experience in Supervision, Staffing, Customer Service, Strategic Planning, Troubleshooting, Technical Understanding & Leadership, and Equipment Maintenance
Education, Technical Qualifications, Experience and Competencies Proficiency Level
Required
- High School Diploma or GED
- Formal training or experience in general maintenance or other maintenance responsibilities that would include the ability to recognize electrical, plumbing, and mechanical malfunctions or equipment failures
Preferred
- Relevant undergraduate degree or certification
- Experience in the food industry
- Strong knowledge of low voltage and high voltage electrical systems
- Proficient in troubleshooting electrical issues and conducting repairs
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Regularly required to climb, stand or walk for extended periods of time
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Able to stand up to a minimum of 8 hours
- Able to work with product on moving conveyors
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions, wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, and extreme cold
- The noise level in the work environment is often moderate to loud
Food Safety / Quality
- Report any issues regarding food safety or quality to supervision and / or quality assurance.
- Report any risks or any evidence of unsafe or out-of-specification product, equipment, packaging or raw materials to a designated manager to enable the resolution of issues requiring immediate attention.
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