Supervisor, Maintenance

Objective of the Position: Support the production process by helping to keep the equipment and tools performing at the level they were originally designed to perform. Must have a significant capacity for troubleshooting and root cause analysis.  This is a 3rd shift position (11:00pm to 7:00am).

Essential Accountabilities: The position incumbent ensures, that

• Assess the skill level of maintenance team members/ programmers and recommend and/or provides training
• Attends production planning meeting prepared to discuss maintenance needs.  
• Establish and maintain positive shift to shift communication among the maintenance/programmers.
• Maintains open communication with operations regarding plans for equipment maintenance timing.
• Oversees personnel in charge of maintaining, repairing, programming and rebuilding various production machines and equipment.
• Prepare facilities for installation of new equipment and layout changes, including working with outside contractors.
• Provide primary input to establish new, and upgrade existing preventive maintenance tasks.
• Manage timecards, schedule and time off daily for all subordinates in e-time.
• Recommend equipment/tool upgrade opportunities.
• Recommends solutions to chronic reliability problems and executes planned solutions.
• Reports equipment related problems to operations and recommend/execute solutions.
• Responsible for adherence to lock out/tag out policies.
• Responsible for adherence to preventive maintenance plans.
• Responsible for identifying spare parts needs and organization of spare parts inventory.
• Responsible for organization of the equipment manuals.
• Responsible for reducing or eliminating unplanned equipment downtime.
• Strive to fully utilize the SAP PM module for all maintenance reporting.
• Support full use of the SAP PM module.
• Verify work of maintenance/programmers is full completed.  Identify and execute follow up needs.

Secondary Accountabilities: The position incumbent ensures, that

• Conduct all business related activities for, and on the behalf of, Eberspaecher within the limits of applicable local, state, and federal legal requirements.
• Provide support to, and compliance with, all local and corporate Eberspaecher Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) policies, procedures and other HSE related requirements.
• Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness and follows all ENA polices related to TS16949 and ISO 14001; looks for way to improve and promote quality.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirement Profile:

Professional Background / Basic Qualification / Work Experience:

• Bachelor's degree (B. A.) infield or closely related field. 
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in supervising maintenance personnel. 
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working for a manufacturing supplier preferably automotive.
• Vocational and/or Technical degree/certificate or Journeyman card. Minimum 4 years’ experience in field.
• Ability to travel domestically by car or plane.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should be proficient in Microsoft Office. 

Technical Expertise:

• Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, statements and projections. 
• Ability to apply mathematical concepts and operations, including calculations, percentages, etc. 
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos, and write simple correspondence.
• Analytical- Synthesize complex or diverse information; Collects and researches data; Uses      intuition and experience to complement data; Designs work flows and procedures.
• Business Acumen- Understands business implications of decisions.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement of products for manufacturability.
• Knowledge of engineering fundaments, mechanical systems, automotive systems, and exhaust systems.
• Knowledge of federal and state regulations. 
• Project Management- Develops project plans; Coordinates projects; Communicates changes and progress; Completes projects on time and budget; Manages project team activities.