Maintenance Supervisor leading maintenance, safety, and equipment reliability at JBS Food Canada’s Belleville meat - processing facility. Supervising unionized employees and preventive maintenance operations.
About the role
- Maintenance Supervisor leading maintenance teams and optimizing plant equipment. Supporting Ventura Foods’ manufacturing of food solutions for foodservice and retail businesses.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and technical guidance to optimize plant equipment performance
- Supervise the Maintenance team
- Coordinate facilities and maintenance planning and scheduling
- Develop technician and operator training needs, materials, matrices, and training sessions
- Develop and implement long-term technical problem-solving strategies
- Coordinate technical resources and assign priorities based on operational and business needs
- Monitor compliance with cGMPs, safety, housekeeping guidelines, and SOPs
- Communicate issues, root causes, and corrective actions across all shifts
- Control repair and maintenance spending within the department budget
- Manage on-site contractors and ensure compliance with site safety rules
- Ensure timely and correct equipment set-ups, changeovers, and repairs
- Develop and maintain changeover sheets, start-up checklists, procedures, certification programs, and training
- Review and implement improvements to operations, autonomous maintenance, and maintenance activities
- Troubleshoot packaging, processing, plant support, pneumatic, hydraulic, mechanical, electrical, PLC/HMI, sensor, vision, and thermal printer systems
- Maintain accurate equipment spare-parts and change-parts inventory
- Identify and purchase replacement equipment components
- Review equipment reliability and recommend improvements
- Lead and support OPEX and preventative maintenance initiatives
- Implement equipment design upgrades to improve efficiency and reliability
- Participate in new equipment launches, specifications, acceptance protocols, factory acceptance tests, commissioning, start-up, and installation
- Identify and resolve safety concerns, conduct risk and hazard assessments, and participate in PSR and EH&S activities
Requirements
- A minimum of 3–5 years supervisory experience
- Experience in Food Manufacturing facilities
- Engineering degree/diploma or equivalent maintenance experience
- Millwright certification or Electrical License an asset
- Familiarity with processing and packaging equipment
- Broad engineering and/or maintenance background in manufacturing, filling and packaging environment
- Knowledge of mechanical and electrical troubleshooting methods
- Knowledge of using machine tools and hand tools safely and correctly
- Working knowledge of PLCs and PLC programming
- Knowledge of CMMS principles of operation
- Knowledge of safety responsibilities and legal/company procedures
- Strong computer skills, including PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
- Ability to work typical 8–12 hour shifts, additional unscheduled hours, and weekends as required
- Ability to wear personal protective equipment as required
- Ability to perform physical tasks including standing, walking, climbing, squatting, kneeling, pushing, pulling, and occasional lifting/moving up to 50 pounds or more with assistance
Benefits
- Retirement savings options
- Employee Appreciation Events
- Employee Assistance Programs
- On-the-job training
- Career growth opportunities
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Safe work environment
- Personal protective equipment provided/required as applicable
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