Supervisor, Automated Facility Maintenance

Primary Responsibility :

Work under limited supervision to lead maintaining, troubleshooting, and controls modifications of mechatronic systems in a cold storage warehouse environment, to ensure overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

Be the on-site technical point of contact for automation and controls.

This is a hands-on role with accountability to problem solve, provide technical support, develop capability of teams, and the ability to lead project management/execution of assigned projects.

This role will work side by side, supervise and provide direction to site maintenance teams in troubleshooting and repair of equipment controls, electrical, and instrumentation devices/systems.

What You'll Do :

• Perform work in a safe manner, as well as, keeping equipment clean and in safe working condition.

Comply with all job specific safety procedures and utilize PPE as required.
• Provide progressive and innovative technical solutions and recommendations to increase asset availability and reliability of automated equipment.
• Implement industry best practices, technology, tools, and training.
• Develop and support strategic automation supplier relationships and performance management for automated equipment to ensure effectiveness of OEM level support.
• On-site support of new business with automation to ensure the site is maintaining the automation equipment, spare parts list, PMs, and firmware/software is updated per OEMs recommendation.
• Analyze maintenance data relating to automation and controls to identify trends impacting asset and organizational performance; develops solutions against findings for optimizing reliability and reducing expenses.
• Serve as the site subject matter expert in control and automation technology, electrical, and instrumentation.
• Assist the Facility Service Manager in developing the maintenance team through mentoring, coaching, encouragement, and development of formalized training plans.
• Lead advanced troubleshooting and repair of automation control systems, HMIs, VFDs, servo drives, motor control systems, PLCs, and electrical circuits.
• Actively participate in all phases of automation systems life cycle including design, development, test, installation, startup and support.
• Act as first-level escalation for automation controls support for the site and appropriately escalate issues that negatively affect OEE.
• Perform controls systems assessments to maintain and improve equipment reliability.
• Safeguard change management methodology related to control systems.
• Capture and trend metrics to resolve mechatronics problems that create performance deficiencies.
• Proactively communicate the status of technical issues and potential variances to aligned upon timelines with leadership, ensuring resulting impacts to systems and OEE is understood.
• Maintains accurate maintenance records related to control systems.
• Technical liaison for site with Corporate Support Center.
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