Job Title: Maintenance Supervisor / Senior Maintenance Process Coach
Job Description
This role oversees and optimizes maintenance operations in a high-volume manufacturing environment, leading skilled trades teams and driving data-driven maintenance processes to improve product quality, reduce scrap and contamination, and increase first-time-through performance. You coordinate start-ups and shift transitions, plan and prioritize preventive and predictive maintenance, and use maintenance data systems to support continuous improvement in equipment reliability, throughput, and total cost of maintenance.
Responsibilities
Lead and supervise skilled trades hourly employees, tradespeople, and other supervisors/leads in a unionized maintenance environment.
Develop and implement data-driven maintenance processes that improve quality metrics such as first-time-through, scrap reduction, and contamination reduction.
Coordinate resources and activities to ensure problem-free equipment and production start-ups for daily operations, weekends, and shutdowns.
Facilitate start-up, shift-to-shift, and cross-team meetings to ensure clear communication of maintenance needs, priorities, and gaps.
Conduct constraint analysis and coordinate actions to eliminate bottlenecks, improving overall plant throughput and competitiveness.
Promote and ensure continuous improvement in manufacturing engineering and maintenance practices to enhance product quality and total cost performance.
Monitor, control, and improve Maintenance Cost Per Unit (MCPU) while meeting or beating production schedules and cost objectives.
Manage and support material control for spare parts inventory, repair and rebuild programs, and reliability and maintainability reviews.
Lead all daily, weekend, and shutdown maintenance planning with input from your team, ensuring adequate resources and clear priorities.
Maximize equipment effectiveness through detailed, standardized, and prioritized preventive and predictive maintenance plans.
Provide direction, resources, and support for all maintenance actions, including both planned work and crisis response.
Use the maintenance management system (MFM) to document all maintenance activities, generate reports, and support continuous improvement initiatives.
Analyze maintenance data using MFM to evaluate the effectiveness of preventive maintenance plans and identify improvement opportunities.
Build Team Leaders' and Team Members' capabilities through coaching, feedback, and recognition.
Create and nurture a conducive, "One Team" work environment that supports collaboration, accountability, and safe execution of tasks.
Perform basic administrative supervisory responsibilities, including documentation, scheduling, and compliance with safety, quality, and throughput processes.
Assign work to a unionized hourly workforce and hold employees accountable for following established safety, quality, and production processes.
Apply strong problem-solving and conflict management skills to resolve equipment issues and team challenges quickly and effectively.
Essential Skills
Proven maintenance supervision experience in a unionized environment, including UAW maintenance supervision.
Root cause analysis mindset with hands-on experience identifying and resolving equipment and process issues.
Strong communication skills to articulate maintenance needs, gaps, and priorities clearly across teams and shifts.
Demonstrated experience supervising tradespeople, skilled trades hourly employees, and other supervisors or leads.
Fundamental working knowledge of conveyor assembly processes in a manufacturing environment.
Ability to work any shift, including rotating shifts and weekends, and to adapt between day and night schedules.
Ability to work independently with limited supervision while managing multiple priorities.
Capability to assign work to a unionized hourly workforce and hold employees accountable for safety, quality, and throughput standards.
Strong organizational and administrative skills for planning, documentation, and resource coordination.
Ability to multi-task effectively in a fast-paced production environment.
Strong problem-solving and conflict management skills, with a focus on practical solutions and team alignment.
Demonstrated leadership behaviors with outstanding interpersonal, team-building, and communication skills.
3-5 years of technical work experience and troubleshooting in a manufacturing environment.
Minimum education: High School Diploma.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Strong PLC electrical is preferred.
Technical skills in a manufacturing environment, including familiarity with robots, resistance spot welding, PLCs, conveyance systems, and DC tools.
Familiarity with mechanical and electrical trades, including understanding of their roles and responsibilities.
Preferred education: Engineering degree or engineering-related.
Experience with repair and rebuild programs and reliability/maintainability reviews is an advantage.
Experience using maintenance management systems (such as MFM) to document work and analyze data is beneficial.
Why Work Here?
You join a manufacturing organization that values continuous improvement, data-driven decision-making, and a collaborative One Team culture. The environment encourages leadership, team-building, and open communication, giving you the opportunity to influence plant performance and drive meaningful operational improvements. You benefit from a stable full-time schedule with regular overtime opportunities, the chance to develop advanced technical and leadership skills, and exposure to modern automation and control technologies in a high-impact role.
Work Environment
This role operates in a high-volume manufacturing facility with advanced automation, including robots, resistance spot welding equipment, PLC-controlled systems, conveyor assembly lines, conveyance equipment, and DC tools. The standard schedule is Monday through Friday, 40 hours per week, with a typical start time of 7:00 AM or 7:00 PM. Approximately two hours of overtime per day (around 16 hours per week) should be expected to cover longer production or maintenance days. New hires generally start on day shift for the first month and then rotate to night shift as needed. The position requires flexibility to work any shift, rotating shifts, and weekends to support production demands and maintenance activities. Work is performed on the plant floor and in maintenance areas, requiring adherence to all safety procedures and the use of appropriate personal protective equipment. The environment emphasizes structured processes, detailed maintenance planning, and close collaboration between production and maintenance teams
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Wayne, MI.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $40.00 - $45.00/hr.
Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
- Medical, dental & vision
- Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
- 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
- Short and long-term disability
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
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