Maintenance Supervisor

Company Description

Harsco Environmental is the premier provider of material processing and environmental services to the global steel and metals industries. Our onsite mill services and resource recovery services offer sustainable solutions that maximize environmental benefit and return valuable raw material into production. We also have developed a range of by-products for specialized applications across industry, construction and agriculture, which utilize Harsco's expertise in mineral materials.

Job Description

Job Purpose:

Directs and supervising the maintenance and repair of machinery and equipment. Key duties include supervising technicians & Sub-contractors, conducting inspections, implementing preventive maintenance schedules, resolving equipment malfunctions, managing budgets, and training staff. Essential qualifications include technical skills in equipment, leadership abilities, organizational skills, and a commitment to safety standards.

Responsible for:

• Supervise and coordinate activities of mechanics, technicians, and involved in the maintenance activities for heavy equipment and fixed plant.
• Plan and schedule preventive maintenance, inspections, and repairs to minimize downtime.
• Ensure the highest standards of safety in maintenance activities and workplaces.
• Ensures that all equipment is maintained in a safe and proper manner that protects all personnel and equipment from damage or injury on the property.
  
  Audit and train maintenance workers, subcontractors and suppliers in safety procedures including shop and stores housekeeping.
• Train, mentor, and evaluate team members to build technical skills and promote safe work practices.
• Daily inspection for the workplace to make sure it is clean and safe for maintenance workers.
• Ensures that lubricants and parts are properly stored in a safe and clean manner.
• Ensures that RWO's are completed on schedule and crews are fully utilized as per the weekly maintenance plan.
• Assigns maintenance workers tasks on a daily shift basis from the weekly maintenance plan.
• Assigns maintenance workers tasks from "Equipment Defect Reports" for breakdown repairs as they occur.
• Audits and trains maintenance crews in usage of "Best Practices" to accomplish repairs.
• Ensures that the "Planned Preventative Maintenance Program" is strictly adhered to and the PM's are performed in a timely manner.
• Performs equipment condition inspections each PM and completes an "Equipment Defect Report" for all defects and develops a BOM for the repairs and submits to Maintenance Planner.
• Prints out, displays, or provides maintenance workers with a copy of the weekly

maintenance schedule and RWO's (as needed).

• Assists in the determination of priority of repair work through consultation with the Maintenance Planner, Production Supervisor and Site Manager, as necessary.
• Assist in the estimation of labor requirements and repair time for all RWO's through consultation with the Maintenance Planner.
• Obtain lists of necessary parts for repair tasks from maintenance workers and creates the Request for the Maintenance Planner.
• Assist maintenance personnel and the Planner in obtaining technical information needed to complete repairs.
• Assist the Planner as needed to coordinate support contractors for maintenance work.
• Assists the Planner to develop the weekly maintenance plan one week in advance of work being started and reviewed by noon Tuesday the preceding week.
• Participates in weekly meeting with site Manager, Production Supervisor/ Manager, and Maintenance Planner/Manager to review plan and grant final approval of maintenance plan for the following week.
• Reviews the final maintenance plan after the meeting and notifies Maintenance Planner if any last-minute changes are required to maintenance plan.
• Assists the Maintenance Planner in critical path planning of major repairs requiring longer-term shutdown of equipment with assistance from Production Supervisor.
• Promptly responds to oil analysis (SOS) alerts to prevent serious equipment damages.
• Evaluates "Oil Analysis Reports" and trends to predict component failures.
• Assists maintenance workers and sub-contractors in performing diagnosis and troubleshooting.
• Performs root cause analysis, as needed for chronic breakdown or failure problems.
• Consults with Maintenance Manager on potential serious problems and predictive maintenance needs as required.
• Completes "Defect Reports" from defects identified by maintenance workers during the course of their work and forwards same to Maintenance Planner.
  
  Audits and trains equipment operators in the performance of their daily equipment inspections.
• Reviews and audits maintenance workers "Daily Reports" for completeness and accuracy.
• Ensure all activities are recorded in the workshop and LOTO books.
• Sign off on all documents.
• Performs cycle counts on parts inventories as needed and ensures that proper requisitions are completed to issue parts from inventory.
• Interface with equipment vendors and parts suppliers as needed.
• Provides technical and practical support to the Maintenance Planner as needed to develop reports and other data necessary to manage the equipment fleet.
• On a monthly basis, reviews with Maintenance Manager and Maintenance Planner KPI's to explain variance and anomalies from maintenance operating plan.

Qualifications

• High school diploma required; technical degree or certifications in heavy equipment maintenance preferred.
• 10 to15 years of experience in heavy equipment maintenance, with at least 2 years in a supervisory or lead role.
• Strong knowledge of diesel engines, hydraulics, transmissions, and electrical systems.
• Ability to read equipment manuals, and schematics.
• Excellent leadership, organizational, and communication skills.

Additional Information

Disclaimer:

This job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not intended to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this position.