Maintenance Supervisor - Day Shift - Joplin, MO - Blue Buffalo

OVERVIEW

The Packaging Maintenance Supervisor provides safety and technical leadership to achieve breakthrough production results in the Dry Packaging area.  This person is responsible for building technical capability in the Line Teams and Mechanics and working to eliminate losses and focus on root cause elimination. 

The Packaging Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for eliminating maintenance and breakdown related losses, and accountable to improve the reliability of the system through ownership in defect handling, breakdown elimination and planning and scheduling processes.

This position requires considerable interaction with plant floor personnel, leadership team, engineering, external support, and vendors. The Packaging Maintenance Supervisor uses continuous improvement tools, leadership skills, and are responsible for fostering a team environment.  This role plays an integral role as a front-line leader in a manufacturing environment and will also have specific responsibilities as a champion for Manufacturing Excellence.  

This is a day shift role working Monday - Friday, with flexibility to off shift on occasion. 

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KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Build capability of the line team and technicians to understand their equipment at component level in addition to identifying and resolving defects and improving asset life.
• Analysis of equipment performance and improving component life.
• Own several daily management systems across the platform and accountable to coach/develop technician system owners who own these systems across the platform.
  • Defect Handling: Facilitates documentation of standards with technicians and coach technicians through the identification, prioritization, and resolution of defects
  • Breakdown Elimination: Identification of triggers and ensures Breakdown Elimination implementation of countermeasures.
  • Planning and Scheduling: Plans, schedules and assigns work (Corrective Maintenance and Preventative Maintenance) including shutdown planning 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• AS degree or 3-5 years maintenance leadership experience
• Proven strong leadership skills in visualizing end results and implementing strategies

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 years prior maintenance leadership in a manufacturing plant
• Demonstrated ability to enforce all FDA, EPA, OSHA, and GMI specific safety and regulatory laws, policies, or practices. 
• Prior experience and knowledge of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems(CMMS) example: Maximo, Maintenance Connection etc.

ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

• International relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of the US) will not be considered
• Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. General Mills will not sponsor applicants for this position for work visas.

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.