TITLE: Maintenance Supervisor
REPORTS TO: Maintenance Manager
LOCATION: Tulare, CA
Lactalis Heritage Dairy is currently seeking candidates to join our team in Tulare, CA.
Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.
If you’re looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility, and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!
Lactalis Heritage Dairy: inviting you to share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE.
From your PASSION to ours
Under the direction of the Maintenance Manager, the Maintenance Supervisor will provide leadership to the Maintenance Department in establishing, organizing, planning, and implementing maintenance programs which will support the maintenance strategy across all operations.
From your EXPERTISE to ours
Key responsibilities for this position include:
- Owner for Maintenance programs such as Preventive Maintenance, Corrective Maintenance, Continuous Improvement, Predictive Maintenance, Equipment Overhauls, and Equipment Upgrades. -Position includes the supervision, development, training program and certification needs for the site maintenance team, and the provision of any of the technical services needed to support.
- The Maintenance Supervisor will act as coach/mentor for the Maintenance Planners and Leads for the factory to ensure deep dives into breakdown elimination and support preventive maintenance planning. Monitor performance of PM compliance goals.
- Supports Maintenance Leads to prioritize work for execution. Prioritize work as it pertains to food safety and human safety. Provide coaching to areas on equipment reliability.
- The Maintenance Supervisor will provide cross functional support with the Engineering Department for capital projects executed at the site. This will include as appropriate: cost justification, design feedback, project implementation when local labor is used, and support at startups. They will provide back-up support for projects as needed.
- This position will know, understand, enforce, and comply with the sites Environmental Policy. This position targets to support and introduce initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint.
- The supervisor ensures maintenance supports production of high-quality food products. Leveraging team members to propose and execute work that assures compliance to specifications and increases consumer satisfaction.
- The position keeps eye on cash flow per budget (MRO and labor), proposing capital projects where appropriate. Manage stockroom costs and best practices to site practices. Ensure critical spare parts and materials are available as needed.
- The supervisor will support and propose new initiatives to reduce utility costs. This can include through improved efficiency and procurement practices.
- The supervisor will pursue new technologies to improve operations on the processing lines, packaging lines and utilities equipment.
- It’s critical to following up with facility team leaders on continuous cost reduction/process improvement ideas and performing other responsibilities as the need arises.
- The position ensures the department is properly trained on how to execute work safely and drive improvements to eliminate any safety risks across the factory.
- Manage properly conservation systems (alarms, security, sprinklers, fire brigade, etc.).
- The candidate must comply with all federal, state, local and company regulatory guidelines. Ensure compliance to PSM guidelines.
- Ensure mechanics and maintenance leads have the proper tools (equipment, training, support, etc.) to support their areas.
- The ideal candidate will be proactive and dynamic, flexible, and receptive to new ideas, down to earth and pragmatic, analytical driver and attentive to detail. He or she will also be capable of managing stress and remaining calm under pressure. Will demonstrate an inquiring mind and well-developed observational skill. Will demonstrate a sense of responsibility and high professional standard, honesty, integrity, and objectivity. Possess values of ambition and engagement, with simplicity.
From your STORY to ours
Qualified applicants will contribute the following:
Education and Experience
- Requires broad knowledge in a general professional or technical field normally acquired through four years of college resulting in a bachelor’s degree or equivalent. Engineering degree preferred.
- From 3 to 5 years of experience.
- Food Industry experience desired
- Packaging lines and dryer processing experience a plus
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Requires intermediate computer skills. For example, using Microsoft Office, SAP, and AutoCAD to present all documents related to any projects.
- Ability to work with clients, vendors, and other team members at all levels.
- Ability to learn company and site policies and procedures
- Individuals must have interpersonal and team skills to function as a team member and leader.
- Management personnel share responsibility for the legality, employee safety, product safety, environmental and quality systems at all times.
Lactalis Heritage Dairy is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.
