Maintenance Supervisor - 1st Shift

Maintenance Supervisor - 1st Shift at Schwan's summary :

The Maintenance Supervisor leads a team responsible for planned, reactive, and corrective maintenance at a food manufacturing facility, ensuring compliance with safety and sanitation standards. This role involves managing maintenance metrics, scheduling, KPI tracking, and coaching staff in equipment reliability and problem-solving. Candidates should have strong technical knowledge of plant maintenance with leadership experience, preferably in food manufacturing environments.

Schwan’s Company, a U.S. affiliate of the global lifestyle brand CJ CheilJedang Corporation, is a leader in manufacturing and marketing quality foods enjoyed nationwide. We have beloved brands like Red Baron®, Tony’s®, Big Daddy’s®, Villa Prima™ and Freschetta® pizzas; bibigo®, Pagoda® Asian-style snacks and we can’t f orget Mrs. Smith’s® and Edwards® pies! We bring families and communities together through great food. Join our team and see the opportunities are real, and the sky is the limit; this isn’t just a job, it’s a seat at the table!

We’re looking for a Maintenance Supervisor to join our 1st shift team at our North East, PA facility. In this leadership role, you’ll guide a skilled team and keep our operations running smoothly - whether it's planned, reactive, or corrective maintenance. If you’re passionate about driving reliability, leading people, and making a real impact on performance, we’d love to connect. This role is primarily a Monday-Friday (7 a.m. to 4 p.m.) position with some occasional weekends that provide $250 shift bonuses.

Responsibilities :

• Ensure compliance with all human and food safety standards across maintenance teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Guide a maintenance team of up to 10 staff with tracking assigned PMs, managing scheduling requests, and being hands-on as needed with legacy pizza equipment.
• Supervise daily maintenance activities (reactive, corrective, planned, and condition-based), aligning resources with production priorities.
• Own maintenance metrics and participate in daily DMS meetings to drive accountability and performance.
• Track and report weekly KPIs, including PM / CM completion, backlog, work order aging, MTTC, and breakdowns.
• Coach teams on Defect Elimination to maintain equipment in basic condition.
• Guide root cause analysis and cross-functional problem-solving to reduce breakdowns and reliability losses.

Qualifications :

Compensation and Benefits :

The base salary range for this position is $66,375 to $110,625 annually with eligibility for a 10% annual incentive bonus that is based on organizational performance. The pay range represents the numerous factors considered in the hiring decisions including, but not limited to education, skills, work experience, certifications, geography etc. As such, starting pay for the successful candidate(s) could fall anywhere within the stated range.

Beyond base salary, we offer a competitive Total Rewards package focusing on your overall well-being. We are proud to offer a strong foundation of health benefits, retirement and financial wellbeing, time off programs, and wellbeing support programs.

The employing subsidiaries of Schwan's Company are Equal Employment Opportunity Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, age, race, color, religion, gender, vet status, national origin, or other protected class.

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Keywords :

maintenance supervisor, plant maintenance, food manufacturing, equipment reliability, preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, team leadership, maintenance KPIs, root cause analysis, OSHA compliance