Supervisor, Mechanical Maintenance
Job Code: SMA OPS USAReports to: Manager, Maintenance & UtilitiesWork Location: RTPFLSA Status: Exempt
Position Summary
The Mechanical Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for leading and coordinating maintenance activities to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operation of powder manufacturing equipment and facility infrastructure. This role supervises maintenance technicians, manages preventive and predictive maintenance programs, supports capital projects, and drives continuous improvement initiatives to maximize equipment uptime and plant performance.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Promote a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with OSHA and company safety requirements.
Lead lockout/tagout (LOTO) compliance efforts.
Ensure maintenance activities comply with environmental and regulatory requirements.
Participate in incident investigations and corrective action implementation.
Ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, and in compliance with company standards.
Provide technical leadership in the troubleshooting, repair, and root cause analysis of mechanical equipment failures, including bearings, gearboxes, pumps, mechanical seals, couplings, conveyors, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, and other rotating equipment.
Schedule and prioritize daily maintenance activities.
Provide coaching, training, and performance feedback to maintenance personnel.
Review work-order backlog and establish maintenance priorities.
Ensure work orders contain accurate labor, parts, failure, and completion information.
Coordinate labor, parts, tools, permits, and equipment availability for planned maintenance
Coordinate and oversee contractors performing maintenance, installation, fabrication, and repair activities, ensuring compliance with site safety requirements, scope, quality, and schedule expectations.
Monitor PM compliance and overdue corrective maintenance.
Partner with Storeroom Personnel and Purchasing to identify critical spare parts, establish appropriate stocking requirements, and ensure material availability for planned and emergency maintenance.
Develop maintenance schedules that minimize production disruptions.
Support Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives.
Identify cost-saving opportunities related to maintenance and reliability.
Identify and address repeat equipment failures through root cause failure analysis rather than recurring component replacement.
Partner with Operations and Engineering to improve equipment reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle performance.
Support capital improvement and equipment upgrade projects.
Lead the maintenance response to significant equipment breakdowns, ensuring work is performed safely while coordinating resources to restore equipment to service as efficiently as possible.
Maintain effective communication with Operations and plant leadership regarding equipment status, repair progress, risks, and estimated return-to-service timing.
Maintain and troubleshoot equipment such as:
Powder production systems
Thermal processing equipment
Mixers, blenders, and classifiers
Conveying systems
Dust collection systems
Screening and sieving equipment
Compressors, pumps, and vacuum systems
Material handling equipment
Industrial furnaces and atomization equipment
Bearings and bearing failure analysis
Gearboxes and power transmission systems
Shaft and coupling alignment
Pumps and mechanical seals
Belt and chain drives
Conveyors
Hydraulic systems
Pneumatic systems
Fans and blowers
Lubrication systems
Piping, valves, and mechanical utilities
Supervisory Responsibilities
Provides direct supervision to Multi-Craft Maintenance Technicians and assigned maintenance personnel. Responsibilities include work assignment and prioritization, coaching, training, performance management, employee development, attendance management, timekeeping, safety accountability, and supporting hiring and disciplinary processes in partnership with Human Resources…