Job Title: Maintenance Supervisor

Job Location:  Wilmington, MA

Job type: Full-Time

Type of role: On-Site

 

About Lubrizol  
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.   

 

Join Our Thriving Team as a Maintenance Supervisor

 

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

 

What You’ll Do: 

Our Maintenance Supervisor will lead the day-to-day maintenance operations as well as the planning and scheduling all maintenance work in the Wilmington facility and provide continuity between the production, scheduling, and maintenance areas.  In addition to leading all maintenance technicians, this individual will develop, schedule, and coordinate detailed maintenance plans, approve contractors and services and evaluate/award jobs to vendors.

 

What We are Looking For:

Lead and exemplify a culture where ‘safety is a core value’ is a true belief and ensure safety accountability across the organization. Provide leadership for operational excellence programs, including continuous improvement, root cause analysis, corrective, and preventive action. Provide leadership and direction to the plant maintenance teams. Provide leadership in a sustainable preventative/predictive maintenance and reliability improvement programs. Oversee talent management and employee development and promote constructive employee relations.  Responsible for repair and maintenance of machines, tools, and equipment in the manufacturing operations Oversee maintenance of the entire facility, including but not limited to, HVAC systems, plant utilities and operations. Ensure best type of repairs and the most cost-effective means of completing a maintenance repair are used. Oversee and coordinate regular plant shutdowns with production and scheduling. Develop and oversee and responsible for the facility and maintenance budgets. Provide technical support for efficient troubleshooting and problem-solving activities to minimize downtime. Create and maintain critical spares and tools stores inventory. Work with manufacturing to prioritize maintenance work to create a daily schedule that will meet production demand and minimize down time. Process all non-emergency work notifications evaluating for detail and priority accuracy. Identify all resources needed for work to be completed including manpower or other needed crafts, parts, tools, manuals, prints/drawings/P&ID’s, Permits and Outside Services. Identify any safety hazards or precautions including Hot work, Lock Out / Tag Out, Line Breaks, Confined Space Entry, Working from Heights, etc. Convert to work order. Procure any special tools and parts as needed. Detail step by step instructions for completing the request. Work with operations to schedule the work. Prepare shut down work. Develop detailed task lists and materials for shutdowns. Work with operations to develop shut down schedules. Ensure all resources needed for shutdowns are on site and available in time. Review shut down work and modify task lists/procedures as necessary.

 

Skills That Matter:

High School Diploma or general education degree (GED), additional education is a plus. Minimum 5 years of maintenance experience in plant operations Knowledge and experience in manufacturing processes Experience in facility management Experience planning and scheduling maintenance work. Ability to read mechanical drawings, prints and P&ID’s Excellent interpersonal, motivational, and organizational skills. Good communication skills across all levels of the organization and outside vendors and contractors Must be able to plan, organize, and manage multiple objectives and deadlines simultaneously. Good computer skills including experience with Microsoft Office products and SAP or a similar ERP system.

Physical Requirements:

Time Factors/Weight Factors: Occasional—over 15% up to 40% of the time / Light 5# to 25#  Rarely—up to 15% of the time / Average –25# to 60# Vision correctable to 20/20. Climbing stairs and ladders Hearing correctable to unamplified human voice. Manual dexterity: excellent Ability to complete and deliver oral/written reports. Ability to meet safety, regulatory, and health guidelines without assistance. Ability to work from heights. Continuous mental/visual concentration.

 

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together! 

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities. 

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic. 

 

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