M&H Valve Foundry Maintenance Supervisor

M&H Valve Company

M&H Valve Company is a world-class manufacturer of water and wastewater materials including fire hydrants, resilient wedge gate valves, butterfly valves and check valves. Since 1854, M&H has developed a reputation for excellence and dependability. Our extensive facilities and innovative technologies have made us a business and community leader. From state-of-the-art environmental upgrades to advanced training initiatives and community outreach, we're working every day to make sure that M&H Valve is the best in the business. M&H Valve Company is part of Birmingham, AL based McWane, Inc.

This salaried position offers a full suite of insurance benefits, 401(k), vacation, and holidays. Relocation package available for the right candidate. Come join our team!

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Summary

Provides excellent leadership. Coordinates activities of team members engaged in repair, maintenance, installation of machines and equipment for the machine shop or other departments by performing the following duties through assigned personnel.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Other duties to be assigned or directed)

• Develop and maintain a maintenance team built on excellence using the McWane Way Core Values.
• Develop and implement a repair training program for CNC equipment that provides top level knowledge for team members.
• Implement top level preventive maintenance program that provides expected machine uptime, cost reduction on parts and labor costs.
• Ensure the PM schedule is completed each week with minimum to no delays.
• Ensure all PM checklist are completed, the equipment is checked and verified to meet the PM requirements, address shortfalls immediately.
• Work with department supervisors to ensure that the weekly machine operator PM'S are complete and meet the expectations.
• Evaluate completed repairs to ensure the repair meets expectation and determine if a follow-up is required.
• Set the expectation for completed repairs that ensure the jobsite is clean and all old parts are disposed of properly.
• Attend the 9am daily machine shop production meeting to report complete shop maintenance update.
• Monitor maintenance repair time to ensure accurate downtime is reported, notify production when repair is complete to ensure efficiency.
• Track maintenance overtime to ensure proper utilization.
• Establish and maintain monthly maintenance spending report with running total to attach to requisition on each purchase to understand spending on each machine.
• Develop process to record and report all machine downtime.
• Initiates or suggests programs and procedures that encourage employee advancement within the organization and fosters a sense of urgency and continuing education and development within the maintenance department.
• Establish team member work schedules based on production and project needs.
• Read and interpret blueprints and schematics
• Suggests opportunities for capital expansion or replacement projects that result in increased efficiency, reliability, and overall profit.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Perform daily safety meetings with all team members in group setting.
• Directly supervises employees in the maintenance department.
• Assists with hiring and training employees
• Perform weekly toolbox safety topic meeting with all maintenance team members.
• Perform monthly red, yellow, green culture rankings.
• Issues disciplines when needed that provides accountability.
• Verify that the monthly safety list is completed before the end of each month and updates are emailed to the safety department.
• Ensure that the daily shift report is emailed to supervisors and managers at the end of each day.
• Work with CCMS administrator to complete open work orders and assign new work orders to the maintenance team each day.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• Associate degree in Industrial Maintenance or similar degree; or combination of formal training and related experience
• Minimum 5 years of relevant maintenance experience
• Minimum 10 years supervisory experience
• Sound decision making and strong organizational skills with attention to detail,
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and delegation skills
• Ability to analyze and solve problems
• Competency with computers and Microsoft Office Suite
• Critical-thinking skills

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

Ability to lead others working safe, keeping areas clean, treating others with dignity and respect while maintaining accountability still showing how others are valued.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be provided to enable a qualified individual with a disability to perform the essential functions of the job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb and/or balance. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be provided to enable a qualified individual with a disability to perform the essential functions of the job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; risk of electrical shock; and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

McWane is a Federal VEVRAA contractor, and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices. McWane will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or service member status, marital status, citizenship status (In IL - sex, including same sex, ancestry, order of protection status, physical or mental disability, military status, pregnancy, unfavorable discharge status, genetic information), (In IA - gender identity), (In CA- gender identity or expression, and genetic information) or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.