Maintenance Supervisor

The role requires regular floor presence and availability for assigned after-hours support, shift overlap, and planned outages, including nights and weekends as scheduled. Follow site PPE requirements and perform essential duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

About opportunities at Magnera

• Magnera's purpose is to better the world with new possibilities made real.
• For more than 160 years, the originating companies have delivered the material solutions their partners need to thrive.
• Through economic upheaval, global pandemics and changing end-user needs, they have consistently found ways to solve problems and exceed expectations.
• By bringing together these legacy companies, the distinct scale and comprehensive portfolio of products will bring customers more materials and choices.
• With a combined legacy of resilience, Magnera will build personal partnerships that withstand an ever-changing world.

Responsibilities

• The Maintenance Supervisor leads maintenance technicians supporting Magnera’s 24/7 Fort Smith operation, including production equipment, utilities, and facility assets within the department’s scope.
• This role is accountable for safe execution, repair quality, technician development, and effective use of labor across day and night shifts.
• The supervisor partners with Operations, Engineering, Reliability, and the Storeroom Manager and Maintenance Planner to execute work and improve reliability within approved budgets.
• Direct reports include nine multi-craft maintenance technicians supporting day and night shifts.
• Safety and work quality Lead field safety reviews and verify that technicians and contractors follow site requirements for lockout/tagout, permits, electrical safety, guarding, and other applicable hazards; stop and escalate unsafe work.
• Confirm appropriate skills, procedures, tools, and equipment isolation before work starts.
• Verify repair quality, testing, housekeeping, and readiness before returning equipment to Operations.
• Team leadership and shift coordination Supervise technician performance, attendance, and work assignments; provide coaching, performance reviews, and consistent accountability in coordination with the Maintenance Engineering Leader and Human Resources.
• Build technician skills through a maintained skills matrix, cross-training, mentoring, and development plans; support recruiting and onboarding.
• Maintain regular contact with day and night crews.
• Establish shift lead responsibilities, backup coverage, and escalation expectations within site policy.
• Maintain an approved on-call and backup coverage plan for 24/7 operations, including escalation contacts, vacation coverage, and response expectations.
• Ensure clear shift handovers covering equipment condition, work in progress, isolations, temporary repairs, outstanding risks, and next-shift priorities.
• Daily execution and scheduling Review work priorities with Operations and the planner; confirm staffing and equipment access for the weekly schedule, then assign daily work based on technician skills and available capacity.
• Direct breakdown response and troubleshooting; coordinate support and communicate equipment status, recovery expectations, and changes in priority.
• Remove barriers to execution, monitor progress, and manage schedule changes.
• Document emergency work and return deferred jobs to the backlog with clear status.
• Review the ready backlog with the planner and Operations to use available production downtime effectively for approved maintenance and engineering work.
• Provide field input and feedback to the planner on job scope, labor estimates, safety requirements, and job steps.
• The planner prepares future work packages and coordinates the weekly schedule; the supervisor owns daily assignments and execution.
• Reliability outages and improvement projects Ensure preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance is completed; verify quality, follow up on inspection findings, and escalate overdue critical work or unresolved defects.
• Partner with Reliability and Engineering to investigate recurring failures, identify follow-up repairs, and improve maintenance tasks and equipment performance.
• Support outage scope and resource reviews with the planner and outage coordinator.
• Lead assigned technicians and contractors during execution, track milestones, and communicate risks and changes.
• Verify repair completion and equipment turnover; contribute to post-outage reviews and capture unfinished work and lessons learned.
• Lead assigned maintenance improvement projects through completion, including safety, schedule, cost, and equipment turnover.
• Systems materials and cost control Use the CMMS proficiently to review backlog, assign work, monitor progress, and verify closeout records, including labor, parts, findings, failure information, and follow-up work.
• Use SAP for assigned maintenance cost, materials, and purchasing workflows.
• Coordinate parts needs, reservations, shortages, and issue or return records with the storeroom/planner under defined system ownership.
• Manage overtime, contractor use, and maintenance spending within delegated authority; identify variances and communicate resource needs.
• Assist the Maintenance Engineering Leader with the annual operating budget, spending forecasts, and upcoming maintenance needs.
• Ensure that labor, materials, requisitions, and contractor charges are assigned to the correct work orders, assets, and cost centers under site procedures.
• Help determine when outside expertise is needed, define technical requirements, and evaluate contractor quality and vendor performance with Engineering and Purchasing.
• Performance measures include safety performance and corrective actions, repair quality, repeat-failure reduction, PM completion, schedule adherence, emergency work percentage, work-order closeout quality, budget and overtime management, outage performance, project completion, and technician development.
• Track OEE and production downtime as shared outcomes with Operations and Reliability.
• Set targets from site baselines and priorities.
• Crews execute work safely and correctly, planned jobs progress with fewer delays, shift handovers are reliable, maintenance records are complete, and repeat failures decline.

Requirements

• Strong working knowledge of mechanical and electrical maintenance, including PLCs, sensors, instrumentation, motors, drives, bearings, power transmission, hydraulics, pneumatics, fluid flow, pressure, and filtration; ability to read drawings and equipment documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technicians, prioritize work, coordinate with Operations, and make sound decisions during equipment failures.
• Proficiency using a CMMS and working knowledge of SAP maintenance materials, purchasing, or cost workflows; ability to use Microsoft Office and interpret maintenance data.
• Clear communication, organization, and problem-solving skills; a consistent commitment to safe work, respectful teamwork, and follow-through.
• Work is performed in office and industrial plant settings.

Preferred

• At least five years of industrial maintenance experience and two years of demonstrated supervisory or team leadership experience.
• Qualifications Experience supervising maintenance in a continuous process or 24/7 manufacturing facility, including planned outages and contractor coordination.
• Technical trade training, an associate degree, or a relevant maintenance or reliability certification; equivalent applicable experience is valued.
• Experience with airlaid manufacturing, root cause analysis, preventive or predictive maintenance, and employee relations.
• Technicians receive consistent coaching and accountability across shifts.

Performance targets are established from site baselines and priorities.