Maintenance Supervisor at Kettle Cuisine in Everett, Washington

Job Description:

NOTE SHIFT INFORMATION: (2nd)

Responsible for 6pm - 6am, M-F shift.

The on-site/normal shift hours will be 6pm- 2:30am, M-F and alternating on call weekend during soup season, typically July - November.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide strong safety leadership and ensure that employee’s safety is the primary objective of the maintenance team


• Ensure compliance with all safety requirements


• Model safe behaviors and personal work practices


• Ensure maintenance personnel stay current with all required training


• Provide feedback to direct reports through coaching and mid-year and year-end reviews


• Manage department vacation schedules to ensure adequate staffing


• Review and approve timecards for the department


• Ensure overtime hours are minimized


• Ensure trouble calls are resolved in a timely manner


• Ensure maintenance KPIs are trending positively


• Ensure quality standards for maintenance work are upheld


• Evaluate the departments training needs and assist in the training


• Provide direction in the prioritization of planned work


• Ensure adherence to work order process


• Facilitate good communication with all groups in the organization25% - Lead the team to execute daily TPM initiatives     


• Participate in Daily Direction Setting and other meetings as necessary


• Excellent coaching skills


• Ability to prioritize and follow-through to achieve results


• High level of personal initiative, self-driven, action and result oriented


• Thrives in a challenging entrepreneurial atmosphere, open to change and creating change


• Strong communication skills, both oral and written


• Excellent interpersonal skills, team player, generates enthusiasm, builds effective working relationships at all levels


• Skilled problem solver


• Willingness to be on-call for support of the department


• Work with all people and equipment across the shift to lead the team.


• Involved in all area activities including budgeting, strategic planning, TDC initiatives.


• Interface with multiple functions with the plant, as well as WHQ Engineering, Process Safety, Product Development, Reliability and network teams.


• Ensure operational standards are executed with excellence.


• All other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications/Education/Skills

• High school diploma or equivalent


• Food manufacturing maintenance and engineering experience preferred.


• Computer skills – working knowledge of SAP, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access). 


• Operations experience with a strong understanding of various plant functions.


• Strong drive and initiative to make improvements in a variety of areas with a minimum of supervision. 


• Strong commitment to personal development and growth.


• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills - relies on facts and data.


• Strong interpersonal and communication (both written and verbal) skills.


• Good planning, prioritizing and organization and multiple prioritizing skills.

Physical Activities Required - The physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Extensive walking and standing, stooping, kneeling, and climbing


• Vision/hearing


• Talking


• Repetitive motion (hands/wrists)


• Climb and balance


• Lifting to 50 lbs.