[wb] Maintenance Supervisor

Job Posting:
Wonderbrands is a leading North American bakery company with a specialized focus across key bakery categories, including breads & rolls; alternatives breads, and others. We are the makers of Wonder®Bread, Country Harvest®, D'Italiano®, Gadoua®, and Casa Mendosa tortillas. We bake our products in 13 facilities across Canada, conducting our business with integrity, contributing to our communities, and fostering a respectful culture. We are building a culture of success here, and it depends on our people striving for greatness and having the courage and commitment to getting better every day.

As we forge ahead in the transformation of our business, we are coming together as a united North American enterprise, rebuilding our asset base, adding significant new capacity, and focusing on the development of our people. These building blocks are essential to moving forward as a growth-focused, insights-driven, consumer-led company that will celebrate food and the central part that food plays in our life.

LOCATION: Victoria St. Kitchener, ON

SHIFT: Down shift coverage - Nights 7PM-7AM
**Friday and Saturday mandatory +**
2, 8 hour shifts throughout the week

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Monitor and track work orders and PM’s on lines and equipment to maintain maximum efficiency. Manage work assignments and hold staff accountable for these assignments and resulting equipment performance. Ensure documentation for all necessary facility and equipment maintenance is completed on shift.
- Give timely feedback, coaching and mentoring to team members to help maintain or improve expected performance.
- Effectively and compassionately supervise and develop employees on a continual basis.
- Proactively supervises plant maintenance staff.
- Resolve any employee issues and document disciplinary actions and superior performance recognition for all employees in a timely manner.
- Provide and promote a strong teamwork environment
- Maintain a positive and constructive work environment within the department as well as with other departments and promote teamwork.
- Provide and facilitate appropriate consequence management for under-performing team members.
- Ensure all team members remove parts from inventory in accordance with inventory management system and procedures.
- Respond appropriately to emergencies and possess good troubleshooting skills.
- Demonstrate proficient computer skills.
- Communicate across departments and shifts to determine condition of operations and priorities.
- Enforce all safety rules, good manufacturing practices within the department, continually monitor and supervise forepersons and mechanics.
- Provide suggestions to improve processes, procedures and department in support of bakery goals. Identify potential cost savings and cost avoidance.
- Provide a comprehensive shift handoff to oncoming shift and the maintenance management team, both orally and in writing, on a daily bases at the end of each shift. The communication needs to include the issues that occurred during the shift, the current status and expected timeline to return to production, if the tool is still down and a look forward of what to expect as known.
- Write corrective work orders as needed, when equipment repairs are identified. Follow-up on items to ensure corrective work orders are generated when it is not suitable to correct immediately.
- Foster and support a zero mindset for frontline maintenance teams in regard to team member safety risk, quality and food safety risk, and waste.
- Additional duties, as assigned.

**REQUIRED SKILLS**:

- High school diploma or GED.
- Communication skills, written and verbal, customer focused.
- Ability to be on feet all day and perform walking, stooping, and bending functions as required.
- Good troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to utilize EAM (Equipment Asset Management) software system.
- Solid work ethic, trustworthy, and ability to maintain confidential information.
- Previous supervision experience preferred.
- Experience in a food manufacturing environment preferred.
- Must be available for occasional weekends as necessary.
- Ability to conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for equipment and process failures.