Mechanical Supervisor

City: Lexington   Contract Type: Full-time     Job-Code: 2539   Department: Maintenance  

Responsibilities

• Align with and understand the needs of the business and communicates goals within the maintenance organization.
• Create and implement strategic directions for reliability and maintenance of plant and developing and implementing PMs.
• Technical and disciplinary management of reliability and maintenance personnel.
• Maintain Maintenance KPIs in Weekly Operation review meetings.
• Facilitate and Attend reliability meetings.
• Manage outside contractors’ contracts.
• Create, implement and monitor work processes to achieve business objectives in terms of Operating Asset Utilization.
• Create, implement and monitor work processes to achieve compliance to OSHA regulations, and corporate standards. 
• Create, implement and monitor KPIs to identify continuous improvement needs and performance management issues. 
• Manage the reliability and maintenance system.
• Ensure that the inventory in Stores is adequate and optimum to meet business needs.
• Maintain Critical Spare parts list and designated inventory.
• Conduct performance evaluations for maintenance and reliability personnel.
• Actively support employee and career development at maintenance and reliability personnel.
• Determine the need for outside resources.
• Provide out-of-hours support as needed.
• (5%) Travel to Global Headquarters in St. Johann, Austria
• Actual Location: 300 Egger Parkway, Linwood, NC 27299

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related AND eight (8) years as Technical Project Manager, Operations Manager or related; or 
• Ten (10) years as Technical Project Manager, Operations Manager or related.
• Applicant must have the following experience:
• (8 years) supervisory experience in wood processing facility or TFL (short cycle presses) 
• (5 years) maintenance / reliability in an industrial environment
• Technical and disciplinary management of a team within a wood products industrial plant
• Supervising reliability and maintenance personnel
• Implementing maintenance best practices and operations excellence
• Planning technical installation work
• Mechanical maintenance requirements in wood products sector
• Optimizing mechanical maintenance systems and processes to meet budgets and efficiency
• Training and development of mechanical specialists on the specialized equipment and machinery
• Energy generating plant for wood products sector 
• Coordination and management of external contractors for installation, maintenance, repair and servicing of wood products manufacturing plant 

Benefits

• Excellent benefits package including comprehensive health insurance, dental and vision insurance.

• 401K retirement plan with company match.

• Paid time off and paid holidays.

Your Contact

Allyson Bowman, HR

336-843-7155