Maintenance Supervisor at Big River Forest Products – Gloster, Mississippi

MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR

Vicksburg Forest Products is now seeking applications for a weekend maintenance supervisor. All applicants must be willing to work overtime, nights, and weekends, as well as being on call at select times. Previous maintenance experience is required, including but not limited to: millwright, welding and electrical.

Responsibilities

• Foster a safe work environment, ensure maintenance personnel are practicing "best safe work practices", lead the identification and mitigation of all work hazards for the jobs performed prior to work commencing.

• Assist in promoting a continuous improvement culture through communication and coaching employees as well as finding opportunities for streamlining production activities and enhancing value-added processes.

• Develop, implement and maintain maintenance team schedules and detailed maintenance planning schedules that drive continuous improvement and support all elements of plant mechanical/electrical functions.
• Responsible for cost control and benchmarking, planning, scheduling and other high-level managerial tasks.
• Takes measures to proactively address all concerns.

• Demonstrate strong leadership and training by leading manufacturing principles and events with supervision.

• Ensure quality standards and order specifications are met throughout the manufacturing process of the wide range of products.
• Other Duties as needed.

Required Skills

• Minimum five (5) years of experience in a maintenance management level role in an industrial or manufacturing environment with a demonstrated ability in safely delivering operational excellence.
• Demonstrated experience in safely leading manufacturing processes, predictive and preventative maintenance, productivity, and/or cost process improvements.
• Excellent team-building and motivational skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

• Solid analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Previous wood products manufacturing management experience.

• Lean manufacturing/5S experience a plus.

Environmental Conditions:

• Must be able to tolerate extreme hot, humid, cold, and outdoor conditions. Comfortable working in loud environment, around moving machinery, with vibrations and airborne particles (sawdust).