Supervisor I, Equipment Maintenance

Job Description:

SUMMARY: Responsible of supervising the Maintenance/Calibration department, ensuring production activities are not interrupted due to equipment failures by using predictive and preventive maintenance methods. Works closely with manufacturing to understand work priorities and assign them to Production Maintenance Technicians, while providing good customer service. Provides and develops solutions to problems of limited scope. Must be able to accomplish broad and complex assignments. May provide technical guidance to lower level personnel using RCA tools.

Develop people, to unite our maintenance/Calibration technicians working in the catheters area on three shifts, under one organization and transform the way we manage our day to day activities using the Lean principles of Total Productive Maintenance.

Full owner of the Calibration and Preventive Maintenance program and responsible for obeying the Confluent maintenance and calibration procedures.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES:

• Owner of Maintenance key performance indicators (KPIs), its goals, strategies and action plans, like downtime; backlog; MTBF; MTTR; OEE; PMP.
• Provides and develops solutions to problems of limited scope. Must be able to accomplish broad and complex assignments. May provide technical guidance to lower level personnel.
• Provides immediate supervision to maintenance/calibration techs, assigning tasks, checking work at frequent intervals, and maintaining schedules.
• Responsible for Production Maintenance, making real time decisions to ensure efficient, reliable and uninterrupted plant operations. Supervise troubleshooting, dismantling, repairing, relocating, modifying, maintaining, aligning, overhauling, and installing of fixed and semi-fixed production machinery and equipment.
• Coordinate work efforts with external contractors and vendors to solve plant operation issues related to production machinery and equipment, and support vendor negotiations, including purchasing of spare parts, equipment and service contracts.
• Team Work with other support areas like manufacturing engineering, able to dig deep for root cause, analyze objectively, draw logical conclusions and follow through quickly to deliver solutions. We seek passionate people with a positive mental attitude who can interact with ease within and outside our team to develop and deliver win-win solutions. Our daily work includes both sustaining and project work – we strive to complete the types of projects that eliminate unplanned equipment downtime.
• Ensure that equipment is repaired and maintained in accordance with diagrams, sketches, operation manuals, and/or manufacturer's specification and according to the las validation.
• Supervises both scheduled and unplanned work on a wide variety of equipment and systems, including Preventative Maintenance (PM) and Corrective Maintenance work.
• Supports implementation of upgrades and new engineering/maintenance projects.
• Takes the necessary actions to ensure equipment and/or environment is safe and consistent with relevant laws, codes and/or governing policies.
• Practice company safety, quality policies and procedures, actively requires conformance.
• Responsible for ensuring personal and company compliance with local and company regulations, policies and procedures for Health, Safety and Environmental compliance.
• Responsible for the purchase or design of equipment that meets health, safety and environmental standards set by the company.
• Responsible for performing design reviews and pre-validation assessments to ensure the safe and environmentally sound start-up of new processes, and owner of IQ protocols
• Responsible for sending different reports requested by the Confluent customers
• Works as a team with operations and quality to make sure the Preventive maintenance and calibration program is executed timely.
• Other duties may be assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides leadership and direction for the selection, training, development, performance appraisal, and work assignments of personnel.

Directly supervises:

• Calibration Technician I, II
• Calibration Lead
• Equipment Technician I, II

• Equipment Technician Lead

• Operates under general objectives, determining methods, work sequence, and scheduling within established policy guidelines.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor´s degree in Engineering, Electromechanical engineering, Electronic or equivalent experience.
• Technical background with 2-3 years of experience, and minimum of 1 year of experience leading teams.
• Advance personal computer skills, including electronic mail, routine database activity, word processing, spreadsheet and graphics.
• Basic English knowledge.
• Experience in the medical device industry would be an asset.
• Experience in roles that need to communicate with customers would be an asset.

Internal Candidate Requirements

• Must have at least 1 year of tenure in the current position at the time of application.
• Must not have received any disciplinary actions in the last 6 months.