Company: Orion Talent
Job Ref: # 7396478
Date Posted: 6/23/2026 12:00:00 AM
City, State: Conyers, GA
Category: Food
Salary: $85,000 - $99,999
Job Description
Seeking a Maintenance Supervisor to lead maintenance operations and equipment reliability within a high-volume manufacturing environment. This role is ideal for a leader with experience overseeing production equipment, driving operational performance, and ensuring equipment reliability across a manufacturing facility.
The successful candidate will serve as a key link between Operations and Maintenance, helping maximize production uptime, improve equipment performance, and lead a team of maintenance technicians in support of daily production goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and supervise a team of maintenance technicians supporting production operations.
- Oversee the performance, reliability, and maintenance of manufacturing and packaging equipment.
- Partner with Operations to ensure production schedules are met with minimal downtime.
- Coordinate preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities.
- Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions to eliminate recurring equipment failures.
- Monitor equipment performance metrics and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on reliability, productivity, and efficiency.
- Manage work order priorities, maintenance planning, and spare parts inventory.
- Ensure compliance with OSHA, USDA, food safety, and company standards.
- Provide leadership, coaching, and accountability to maintenance personnel.
Must-Have Qualifications:
- 3+ years of leadership experience overseeing production equipment, manufacturing operations, or maintenance teams.
- Experience in a manufacturing, food production, packaging, distribution, or industrial environment.
- Strong understanding of equipment reliability, production flow, and downtime reduction strategies.
- Experience managing maintenance activities for automated production equipment.
- Ability to troubleshoot and identify issues involving mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.
- Experience working closely with Operations to support production goals.
- Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ability to analyze equipment performance and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications:
- Food manufacturing experience.
- Reliability Engineering or Reliability Supervisor experience.
- Experience with high-speed packaging, processing, or automated production equipment.
- PLC troubleshooting experience.
- Experience with CMMS systems such as SAP, Maximo, or Maintenance Connection.
- Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Six Sigma, or Continuous Improvement experience.
- Technical degree in Engineering, Industrial Maintenance, Electronics, or related field.
- Experience managing maintenance budgets, projects, and capital improvements.
- Military leadership experience in maintenance or operations.
Ideal Candidate
We are looking for a professional leader who understands the relationship between equipment performance and production success. This individual may come from a Maintenance Supervisor, Reliability Supervisor, Production Supervisor, Operations Supervisor, Maintenance Planner, or Manufacturing Leadership background and will have a proven track record of improving equipment uptime, supporting production objectives, and leading teams in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
