Maintenance Supervisor

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company’s portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Nutrish®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook for the latest news.

At Post Consumer Brands, we’ve spent generations showing up for families, starting with breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Our cereals have become a trusted part of daily routines, helping spark conversations, fuel busy mornings, and create everyday moments that bring families closer together, including their furry four-legged family members, who have recently become a part of our story. As families have evolved, so have we. What began at the breakfast table has expanded into snacks, peanut butter, and, more recently, pet food, because caring for a family means feeding every part of it. With the addition of several iconic pet brands, we’ve extended our purpose: to make high-quality, accessible food for everyone under the same roof.

This phase is still new, and that’s what makes it exciting. As we continue to grow across grocery and pet, we’re looking for people who care about good food, thoughtful work, and the kind of impact that stretches from store shelves to kitchen tables, and food bowls, across the country.

Post Consumer Brands in Battle Creek, Mich., the cereal capital of the U.S., is the company's largest manufacturing plant and home to about 600 team members. When you join the team here, you'll be helping to produce some of the most iconic cereal brands, including Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, PEBBLES cereal, Grape-Nuts and Honeycomb cereal. The Battle Creek plant is also unique as it is home to the original barn where C.W. Post started the Postum cereal company in 1895. The Battle Creek team has deep community roots, supporting the city's Cereal Festival, The Post Foundation, and participating in several volunteer events throughout the year.

This position is responsible for the direction and coaching of skilled-trades maintenance crews in a union environment. This includes electrical and mechanical servicing and efficient maintenance of production machinery and equipment, physical plant, utilities and grounds in accordance with state and federal regulations and company policy and procedures. This position reports to the Maintenance Operations Manager.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Promote safety awareness as well as participate in all safety meetings. Ensure that good housekeeping policies and sanitation practices are followed.
• Responsible for enforcing all applicable safety and loss management requirements, including the Post Safety and Risk Management policies, and OSHA regulations are followed.
• Ensure that safety tours are being taken on a regular basis, accidents are thoroughly investigated and reported, and the regular training of employees in the safe operation of their job duties.
• Execute and provide input to the weekly maintenance planning process to ensure full economical utilization, availability of equipment requiring work, and availability of equipment, parts, and supplies necessary for the job.
• Execute and provide input to the preventive and predictive maintenance program and equipment audits when possible within the guidelines of productions scheduling and manpower and make recommendations concerning the priorities for weekends and outage work.
• Provide leadership and supervise the activities of the maintenance team to ensure efficient scheduling of workload and proper maintenance of equipment, buildings and infrastructure.
• Provide direct feedback and coaching to employees concerning the performance of job responsibilities.
• Recommend, plan and implement equipment initiatives to improve production efficiency and / or product quality.
• Lead and execute capital project installation according to plan and specifications.
• Manage assigned building maintenance requirements, deliver acceptable maintenance KPI such as PM completion compliance, Planned work vs. break in work, routine work ( PM hours ) vs. total hours and planned work compliance
• Ability to hold subordinates accountable on all aspect of job performance and behavior.
• Others duties as assigned.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• BS / BA is strongly preferred (Engineering or similar technical discipline preferred)
• If the candidate has a BS/BA they must have at least 5 years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment and a minimum of 3 years supervisory experience.
• If the candidate does not have a BS/BA, they must have at least 7 years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment with a minimum of 5 years supervisory experience.

SKILLS:

• Strong mechanical and electrical skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with root-cause failure analysis
• Ability to understand technical manuals, layout and assembly drawings, and electrical / control schematics
• Demonstrated project management skills are beneficial
• Experience in utilizing Hexagon Enterprise Asset Management tool or other integrated CMMS software