Preventive Maintenance Working Foreman

Job Summary/Objective

The Preventive Maintenance (PM) Supervisor leads a team of multi-craft technicians and is responsible for the execution, scheduling, and continuous improvement of the site’s preventive and predictive maintenance program. This role applies Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles to improve equipment reliability, reduce unplanned downtime, and ensure safe, compliant operations in a food manufacturing environment.

The PM Supervisor partners with Operations, Engineering, and Reliability resources to ensure maintenance activities are properly planned, prioritized, and executed, with a strong focus on preventive maintenance (PM), condition-based monitoring (PdM), and precision maintenance practices.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Supervise, coach, and develop a team of 5 multi-craft maintenance technicians
• Assign daily and weekly work based on priority, safety, and production needs
• Ensure effective labor utilization and schedule adherence
• Lead daily shift meetings and weekly maintenance planning reviews
• Enforce maintenance standards, safe work practices, and quality of execution
• Partner with Operations to coordinate maintenance windows and minimize disruption.

Preventative Maintenance Program Ownership

• Execute and sustain a structured PM program based on RCM principles and asset criticality
• Ensure >90–95% PM compliance on a weekly basis
• Audit PM quality and continuously improve task effectiveness
• Eliminate non-value-added PMs and optimize frequencies using failure history
• Maintain a healthy maintenance backlog (2–4 weeks of planned work)

Predictive / Condition-Based Maintenance

• Execute PdM routes including vibration, thermography, ultrasound, and oil analysis
• Review PdM findings and generate corrective work orders
• Prioritize and schedule corrective actions based on risk and severity
• Support condition monitoring initiatives (online or route-based systems)
• Ensure PdM technologies are effectively used to identify developing failures early

Work Planning & CMMS Ownership

• Utilize CMMS as the system of record for all maintenance activities
• Ensure all work is properly planned, scoped, and documented before execution
• Review and approve work orders for completeness and accuracy
• Track and report KPIs including PM compliance, backlog, downtime, and labor utilization
• Drive continuous improvement in work order quality and data integrity

Precision Maintenance & Lubrication

• Enforce precision maintenance practices (alignment, balancing, torque, soft foot correction)
• Lead lubrication best practices including contamination control and proper intervals
• Ensure proper installation and repair techniques to prevent premature failures

Inventory, Safety & Compliance

• Coordinate with storeroom or purchasing to ensure parts availability for scheduled work
• Support min/max inventory levels for critical spares
• Ensure parts are kitted and ready prior to scheduled maintenance

Capital & Project Support

• Support maintenance activities during shutdowns and planned outages
• Provide maintenance input for new equipment installations and commissioning
• Assist in developing PM strategies for new assets

Travel Requirements

☒None ☐ Minimal ☐ Moderate ☐ High

Qualifications:
General Skills & Abilities needed to complete job successfully:

• 7–12+ years of industrial maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment
• 3–6+ years leading maintenance teams or reliability initiatives
• Demonstrated success improving maintenance performance metrics (e.g., PM compliance, downtime reduction, planned vs reactive work)
• Proven experience advancing a maintenance program from reactive → planned → predictive
• Hands-on experience implementing or sustaining RCM, PM optimization, or PdM programs
• Experience working in food, beverage, dairy, or regulated manufacturing environments strongly preferred

Education/Certifications: (if n/a is applicable please note “N/A)

	Required	Preferred
Education (degree/certifications)	High School Diploma or GED; Technical certification in electrical, mechanical, or related field	Associate’s Degree in Industrial Maintenance or related field, Certified Maintenance & Reliability Technician (CMRT)

Work Environment & Demands
Physical and environmental demands for this position are indicated below: (check all that are applicable)

Physical Demands:

• Requires ability to walk and stand for 12 or more hours at a time.
• Requires ability to stoop, bend, reach, lift, climb ladders, stairs of various heights and carry items in excess of 55 pounds.
• Requires ability to stoop, bend, reach, lift and carry items often including items up to 55lbs.
• Requires ability to push and pull items frequently including items 150lbs.
• Requires ability to climb ladders and stairs of various heights including floors of 100ft or more.
• Requires ability to hear and speak and frequently hear and speak in very noisy environments.
• Requires ability to work in varying extreme hot, cold, and wet temperatures and conditions.
• Requires ability to work in confined spaces frequently.
• Requires the ability to visually observe the condition of surroundings.
• Requires ability to work safely with hazardous chemicals.
• Requires ability to walk entire facility multiple times for each shift.
• Ability to drive and operate a forklift and like equipment.