Maintenance Shift Supervisor

Cayuga Milk Ingredients, LLC

Auburn, NY

Pay: $34-$49/hr

Shift: Full time

**Position** **Title:** Maintenance Shift Supervisor

**Reports** **To:** Maintenance Manager

**FLSA** **Status:** Non-Exempt

**Pay** **Range:** $34.25-48.50/hour

**Position Overview:**

The **Maintenance Shift Supervisor** is responsible for leading and working alongside the maintenance team assigned to a designated shift in Cayuga Milk Ingredients’ 24/7/365 dairy manufacturing environment. The Maintenance Supervisor leads the maintenance technicians on an assigned shift and is accountable for equipment uptime, response time, and work quality across both plants during that shift.

This is a working supervisor role. We expect this person on the floor with tools in hand when the situation calls for it, not managing from a shop office. You will be the senior technical decision-maker on your shift.

The Maintenance Shift Supervisor performs preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities; prioritizes work orders; troubleshoots mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, pneumatic, hydraulic, and PLC/control system issues; and ensures maintenance activities are completed in accordance with company standards, food safety requirements, regulatory expectations, and established maintenance programs.

This position works with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Sanitation, Warehouse, Safety, and other departments to minimize downtime, improve equipment reliability, support production objectives, and maintain a safe and compliant manufacturing environment. The Maintenance Shift Supervisor also serves as a technical resource and coach for maintenance employees, helping develop the team's skills, knowledge, and ability to respond effectively to equipment and operational challenges.

The successful candidate will demonstrate strong technical expertise, sound judgment, leadership capability, and the ability to remain effective in a fast-paced manufacturing environment where equipment reliability, product quality, food safety, and uninterrupted production are critical.

**Key Responsibilities:**

**Lead the Shift**

• Run the maintenance shift: assign work, set priorities, and keep the crew focused on what matters most to production right now.
• Be on the floor. Lead breakdown response personally and stay with the job until the line is running and the fix holds.
• Hold a shift handoff with the incoming and outgoing supervisors and with production. Nothing open should be a surprise to the next shift.
• Coach technicians at the machine on troubleshooting method, sanitary practice, and workmanship.
• Hold the crew accountable for attendance, safety behavior, work quality, and CMMS discipline. Escalate performance issues to the Maintenance Manager.

**Keep Equipment Running**

• Own uptime on your shift. Drive fast, correct diagnosis and lasting repairs rather than repeat temporary fixes.
• Support startups, sterilization cycles, CIP, changeovers, and shutdowns alongside production.
• Execute planned and preventive maintenance on schedule. Protect PM time from being consumed by reactive work wherever possible.
• Escalate to the Maintenance Manager, Maintenance Engineer, or OEM support when a problem exceeds what the shift can resolve.
• Feed root cause analysis with facts from the floor: what failed, what was observed, what was replaced, and why.

**Safety**

• Enforce lockout/tagout, confined space, hot work, elevated work, and electrical safe work practices without exception.
• Review the job with the technician before the work starts. No shortcuts on energy isolation or PPE, including under production pressure.
• Report and respond to incidents and near misses on shift and support the investigation.
• Keep contractors working on your shift within CMI safety rules and GMP requirements.

**Food Safety, Hygiene, and GMP**

• Maintain the plant to food-grade standards. Sanitary welds, food-grade lubricants, proper gasket and seal materials, and no temporary repairs that create a contamination risk.
• Enforce GMP in every maintenance activity: tool control, hygienic zoning, foreign material control, and full cleanup and release of equipment before production restarts.
• Work with QA on hygienic design, post-maintenance sanitation and verification, and release of equipment after a repair.
• Understand how maintenance work affects sterility and shelf life in aseptic and ESL systems, and act accordingly.
• Keep the shift audit-ready at all times for FDA, NYS Ag & Markets, customer, and third-party (SQF / FSSC) audits.

**Documentation and Parts**

• Ensure every work order is opened, updated, and closed in the CMMS with real repair detail, parts used, and labor time.
• Keep drawings, equipment history, and PM feedback accurate so the next technician is not starting from scratch.
• Manage parts usage on shift: pull correctly, record issues, and flag critical spares before a stockout stops a line.
• Support reliability and KPI reporting with clean, honest data from the shift.

**Qualifications:**

**Education & Exper