Maintenance Supervisor

This is an on-site role in Southaven, MS. Only local applicants will be considered. Direct hire only, no agency recruiters. Build Something Big From the Ground Up 500,000 square feet. Approximately 150 employees. Three shifts. And we’re just getting started. SIP Manufacturing is building a major new manufacturing operation in Southaven, Mississippi. It will be our second facility, following our operation in Lake Elsinore, California, with more growth ahead. This is a chance to get in on the ground floor and help build something from the beginning. We’re not just building a facility. We’re building the team, processes, standards, and culture that will define how this operation runs for years to come. We’re looking for people who take ownership, move with urgency, work well across teams, and want their contribution to make a visible difference. Whether you’re joining us on the production floor, in a technical role, or supporting the operation, you’ll have the opportunity to help shape what comes next for SIP. Beverage manufacturing experience is something we value, but it is not required. If you bring strong experience, the right skills, and the mindset to help us build a great operation, we want to hear from you. Come build it with us. Summary The Maintenance Supervisor supervises the equipment maintenance activities of the assigned shift. The role monitors and directs the Maintenance Technicians who maintain production equipment and related systems, receives and prioritizes maintenance requests, and assigns technicians to open work orders. The position coordinates preventive maintenance with production planning and inspects completed work, inspects equipment regularly to identify maintenance needs, assists with root-cause analysis of failures and implements fixes, maintains repair records, oversees contractors on site, and ensures equipment is safely and properly returned to service. Detailed Responsibility Framework The following responsibilities define the position’s primary accountabilities in priority order. They do not eliminate reasonable related duties or the need to follow approved policies and procedures. 1. Lead safe and compliant maintenance execution Enforce lockout/tagout, electrical safety, machine guarding, confined-space, hot-work, fall-protection, PPE, food-safety, chemical, and contractor-safety requirements. 2. Manage shift maintenance coverage Review the production schedule, planned maintenance, open work orders, equipment constraints, technician availability, and critical risks at the beginning of the shift. Inspect equipment regularly to identify current and potential maintenance needs. 3. Prioritize requests and assign technicians Receive maintenance requests, prioritize maintenance activities based on urgency and availability of resources, and assign technicians to open work orders, including preventive maintenance, corrective repairs, inspections, setups, facility work, and production-support requests. 4. Coordinate breakdown response and line recovery Ensure failures are made safe, diagnosed, repaired, tested, documented, and returned to service in a controlled manner. Communicate repair status and estimated recovery time. 5. Supervise preventive and predictive maintenance execution Coordinate preventive maintenance with production planning staff and inspect completed work for completeness. Ensure assigned PM work is completed according to approved job plans, frequencies, technical requirements, parts needs, and documentation standards. 6. Verify repair quality and equipment restart readiness Confirm guards, tools, parts, lubricants, temporary repairs, debris, and work areas are controlled before equipment is returned to Production. Obtain required Quality or sanitation verification when applicable. 7. Manage change-part and tooling installation Ensure change parts, tooling, fixtures, and format components are correctly identified, installed, adjusted, tested, removed, cleaned when required, and returned to their designated locations. 8. Support production changeovers and startups Provide maintenance support for equipment setup, format changes, adjustments, startup issues, and stabilization within authorized technical limits. 9. Control maintenance work orders in MaintainX Maintain records and documentation related to repairs made. Ensure work requests, labor, downtime, failure codes, repairs, parts usage, findings, and follow-up work are accurately documented and closed promptly. 10. Manage parts usage and shortage escalation Verify parts issued to work orders, record usage, identify critical shortages, return unused parts, and escalate reorder or emergency-purchase requirements. 11. Lead initial failure investigation Capture failure symptoms, conditions, causes, repair details, and repeat-history information. Escalate significant or recurring failures for formal root-cause analysis.