Maintenance Supervisor

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• Lead installation, commissioning, and handover of kitchen and production equipment.
• Prioritize maintenance-team work and manage preventive maintenance schedules across production, refrigeration, HVAC, and facility equipment.
• Coordinate breakdown response and repairs to minimize downtime.
• Maintain equipment records, service histories, inspection documentation, certifications, and compliance records.
• Ensure refrigeration and cold-storage systems support cold-chain and food-safety standards.
• Work with Quality on equipment issues affecting food safety or product quality.
• Manage the maintenance budget, asset register, equipment replacement, and capital expenditure planning.
• Manage contractors, vendors, service agreements, SLAs, callouts, and response times.
• Lead root cause investigations and implement long-term engineering or process improvements.
• Ensure facility systems meet safety and regulatory standards and maintain a safe, organized working environment.

Requirements

• 5–6 years of experience in maintenance, engineering, or facilities management within food production, manufacturing, industrial, or a similar environment.
• Strong hands-on industrial equipment maintenance experience.
• Experience with refrigeration and HVAC systems is strongly preferred.
• Experience leading equipment installation and commissioning projects.
• Experience managing or supervising a technician team.
• Knowledge of preventive and corrective maintenance practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot failures and lead root cause investigations.
• Experience managing contractors, vendors, service agreements, budgets, assets, and capital replacement planning.
• Understanding of mechanical, electrical, refrigeration, and facility safety requirements.
• Strong organization, communication, team-management, and record-keeping skills.