- Field
- Maintenance and facilities
- Location
- Lakewood, NJ
- Work model
- Onsite
- Level
- Manager
- Pay
- $90k to $115k
What you would own
- Team Leadership & Coaching: Directly responsible for building a high-performing, 24/7 maintenance team in the packaging department.
- Provides active coaching and mentoring to mechanics, escalating performance issues to the Maintenance Manager as needed.
- Identifies skill gaps, promotes cross-training, and actively contributes to long-term personnel development plans.
- Safety & Compliance: Promotes a strong safety culture and consistently enforces plant safety policies.
- Conducts daily field audits to ensure safety and productivity, oversees work permit processes, and manages safety expectations and scope of work for contractors and vendors.
- Supports all site safety initiatives.
- Maintenance Planning & Operations: Coordinates, schedules, and assigns maintenance resources for packaging lines, focusing on urgent mechanical and electrical issues.
- Manages daily work progress, adjusts schedules as needed, and reviews job packages prior to assignment.
- Works alongside shift leads to verify scheduled work can proceed, ensures equipment is tested before returning to operations, and completes final signoffs on work packages and paperwork.
- Directs and reviews the work status of external service providers.
- Continuous Improvement & KPIs: Owns and maintains safety and productivity KPIs related to maintenance.
- Drives participation in the preventative maintenance program, actively supports Lean manufacturing principles, such as 5S and TPS, and leads or participates in root cause investigations.
- Maintains flexibility to work any shift and weekends to support continuous business and plant operations.
- Candidates should be able to hold others accountable, be hands-on, lead by example, coach and mentor their staff and infuse energy and excitement into the daily tasks of the plant.
- Individuals should be continuous improvement minded and work to attain FDA regulated manufacturing standards.
What they are looking for
- Associate's degree is required; bachelor's degree is highly preferred 2.
- At least five years of similar maintenance supervision experience in manufacturing 3.
- Pharmaceutical, consumer products, food, or beverage manufacturing experience 4.
- Experience working in FDA regulated manufacturing environments 5.
- Experience with root cause analysis and corrective actions 7.
- Preventative maintenance programs and ticketing systems experience 8.
- Strong continuous improvement background, focused on increasing uptime and efficiencies 9.
- Microsoft Office skills, including Word and Excel Skills preferred but NOT required: 1.
- Six Sigma training or certifications 2.
Everything above is the hiring company’s own words, with the company name taken out. The name, the team, and the interview steps come with the first conversation.