Who we are! Schwan's Company, a U.S. affiliate of the global lifestyle company, CJ CheilJedang Corporation, is a leading U.S. manufacturer and marketer of quality foods offered through retail-grocery and food-service channels. Our many popular brands include Red Baron , Tony's , Big Daddy's , Villa Prima and Freschetta pizza; Mrs. Smith's and Edwards desserts; and Pagoda and Bibigo Asian-style snacks. Schwan's is a place for people with an appetite for more. To learn about joining a team where you can belong, contribute, and thrive, visit
We are hiring a
2nd shift Maintenance Supervisor in our
Salina, KS-based Tony's pizza plant. In this role you will provide technical, process and people leadership for assigned shift or platform and directs reactive, corrective, and planned maintenance activities in coordination with the site strategy. This role is a key leader in the utilization of the Asset Optimization elements, specifically Planning and Scheduling, Defect Elimination, and Breakdown Elimination. The Supervisor assists the Maintenance Leadership team to identify and eliminate top losses across the site. The Maintenance Supervisor has accountability for production throughput, downtime, OEE, and cost attainment on their assigned shift in partnership with Production Supervision.
Responsibilities: - Ensures team maintains a safe work environment to eliminate human safety and food safety risk.
- Ensures all company, state, and federal requirements for human and food safety are met by maintenance employees, contractors, and vendors.
- Improves organization and effectiveness of physical workspaces through Shop Tools and Facilities system (Shop safety, 5S, precision tools, etc.)
- Supervises daily work assignments including reactive, corrective, planned and condition-based maintenance in coordination with Maintenance Planner/Scheduler. Prioritizes and assigns resources based on shifting production and schedule demands.
- Actively participates in the site DMS meetings with reporting ownership for maintenance metrics.
- Weekly tracking and reporting of maintenance KPI's for team: PM and Corrective Completion, Backlog, WO aging, Mean Time to Complete, Breakdowns, Defects, etc.
- Provides technical leadership in the development and utilization of Clean-Inspect-Lubricate and Centerlines.
- Ensures equipment is maintained at basic condition through coaching Defect Elimination.
- Provides leadership in troubleshooting and problem-solving breakdowns and reliability losses with cross-functional team. Drives failures to root cause using Breakdown Elimination processes.
- Responsible for cost management and budget compliance in partnership with site Maintenance Leadership team.
- Participates in equipment maintenance strategy improvement using inputs from maintenance team, breakdown elimination findings, defect trends, and equipment condition monitoring.
- Supervises equipment repair and rebuilds during scheduled outages.
- Teaches, coaches, and develops maintenance team members in areas of technical, leadership, and process utilization.
Qualifications: - Education: High school diploma or equivalent. Bachelors degree preferred.
- Experience: 5+ years of overall maintenance experience, with 2+ years of maintenance leadership.
- Knowledge and skills in the technologies of general construction, electrical systems, electronic systems, microprocessors, mechanical systems (e.g., production/process, refrigeration, boilers, HVAC, hydraulics, and pneumatics), and computerized maintenance management systems.
- Working knowledge of food plant production and processing equipment preferred.
- Knowledge of occupational hazards, safety, EPA regulations, USDA and sanitation standards preferred.
The base salary range for this position is $66,375 to $110,625 annually with eligibility for a 10% annual incentive bonus that is based on organizational performance. The pay range represents the numerous factors considered in the hiring decisions including, but not limited to education, skills, work experience, certifications, geography etc. As such, starting pay for the successful candidate(s) could fall anywhere within the stated range.
Beyond base salary, we offer a competitive Total Rewards package focusing on your overall well-being. We are proud to offer a strong foundation of health benefits, retirement and financial wellbeing, time off programs, and wellbeing support programs.
The employing subsidiaries of Schwan's Company are Equal Employment Opportunity Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, age, race, color, religion, gender, vet status, national origin, or other protected class.
