Maintenance Supervisor

Job Address:
135 Otonabee Drive, Kitchener, Ontario, N2C 1L7

We are Hearthside Food Solutions, a new kind of food company, and the industry’s largest contract manufacturer. You won’t find our logo on store shelves, but our passion for quality and efficiency is evident in every product we make.

Founded in 2009, today we operate 43 production facilities in the US, Canada and Europe, employing over 11,000 people. In an industry growing at 2%, we made the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies list three straight years. Our customers are some of the world’s finest food companies.

At Interbake Foods, we bake cookies, crackers, cones and wafers products in 6 facilities across Canada and the USA, 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.

Job Overview:
The Maintenance Supervisor will provide front line leadership for maintenance teams and liaise with external contractors and service providers to ensure that the bakery is maintained in an optimum state to meet production needs. The Supervisor will lead, motivate and develop employees to achieve outstanding results according to set targets through enhancing teamwork, effective communications, actively listening, and driving change. The Supervisor will also drive accountability and ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards.

Job Responsibilities:

- Ensure teams follow safe work practices. Address unsafe working conditions and any team member safety concerns. Complete thorough incident investigations and develop corrective actions to appropriately reduce or eliminate risk. Conduct workplace inspections and audits and address risk. Drive a culture of 0 tolerance with LOTO and other life saving procedures;
- Liaise with Government agencies such as Technical Standards and Safety Authority, Ministry of the Environment and other regulatory bodies as required to ensure compliance;
- Provide orientation and training as required to ensure an effective and efficient work force. Assign and oversee formal training and sign off on completed training requirements
- Ensure all maintenance aspects of equipment meet food safety standards. Adhere to our HACCP plan and SQF II requirements;
- Direct and lead maintenance team in preventative maintenance and repair of production equipment. Schedule the team using maintenance planning and work order systems. Assess contractor skill requirements and liaise with contractors to provide assistance needed;
- Provide leadership necessary to ensure the team meets or exceeds targets;
- Ensure systems are used and up to date for all PM's / CM's;
- Generate preventative Work Orders and PO's and assign to mechanics or contractors and generate any needed POs for contractor unplanned maintenance. Review and approve close of WO's for site mechanics and contractors;
- Review results and respond to issues with appropriate actions;
- Optimize maintenance spend in alignment with Corporate preferred supplier program;
- Source and order all parts and maintain spare parts inventory
- Use information tools to look for opportunities to improve line efficiency, trends, and drive bakery priorities. Track and eliminate causes of downtime. Lead smaller scope process improvements to achieve specific measurable goals;
- Conduct detailed root cause investigations for large deviations from target;
- Own maintenance deliverables as assigned within the planning, assessment, installation and testing of new equipment, methods and/or products;
- Own plant downtime reduction initiatives;
- Arrange follow up to work orders & generate any needed follow ups in the maintenance planning system;
- Establish and sustain a positive and cooperative employee environment through effective communications with all employees;
- Provide effective, timely and fair performance and disciplinary feedback to team members and document as needed;
- Assist as needed in interviewing, hiring and onboarding of new employees;
- Verify and maintain attendance records. Review and address attendance issues;
- Resource shifts and ensure availability for rotating shifts including weekends in a 24/7 environment;
- Competencies & Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years of food plant maintenance supervision experience;
- Experience with OSHA regulations, PLC’s and Preventative maintenance programs;
- A good grasp of maintenance storeroom inventory management;
- Conduct work with integrity, abiding and upholding the Code of Conduct and Company Core Values (Integrity, Respect, Commitment, Courage and Growth);
- Act, react and interact with respect and regard for others;
- Ability to anticipate what needs to be done & commits to take ownership to ensure it gets done;
- Demonstrated ability to multitask and work with urgency in a fast-paced production environment;