Maintenance Mechanic Supervisor (Bottling Manufacturing)

Job Title: Bottling Line Maintenance Mechanic Supervisor
Department: Maintenance
Reports To: Maintenance Manager
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Location: Bakersfield

Summary
The Maintenance Supervisor leads plant maintenance activities to ensure production equipment, utilities, electrical systems, and automated equipment operate safely, reliably, and efficiently. This position supervises the maintenance team, coordinates preventive and corrective maintenance, supports production needs, and drives improvements that reduce downtime and improve equipment reliability.

Essential Responsibilities
• Lead preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance for production equipment, packaging systems, utilities, electrical systems, automation, and facility equipment.
• Supervise, schedule, train, and develop maintenance employees; assign work and provide technical guidance, coaching, and performance feedback.
• Coordinate troubleshooting and repairs to minimize equipment downtime and support production schedules.
• Manage preventive maintenance, CMMS work orders, maintenance records, equipment history, and critical spare parts inventory.
• Identify recurring equipment issues, coordinate root cause analysis, and implement reliability and performance improvements.
• Oversee plant utilities, including ammonia refrigeration, HVAC, compressed air, and water systems, using qualified employees, contractors, and service providers as needed.
• Coordinate equipment installations, upgrades, shutdowns, repairs, and improvement projects, including contractors, schedules, and assigned budgets.
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with CGWC safety, food safety, quality, GMP, LOTO, electrical safety, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Production, Quality, Safety, and other departments to prioritize maintenance needs and support continuous improvement.
• Maintain required maintenance, inspection, safety, and compliance documentation and support audits and corrective actions.
• Support plant emergencies, shutdowns, start-ups, and other operational needs as required.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Skills & Qualifications
• Strong supervisory experience - Supervise and direct a team of maintenance personnel.
• Strong knowledge of liquid filling, batching, packaging, electrical, mechanical, and automated manufacturing equipment.
• Ability to troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, PLC, and automation systems and interpret schematics, drawings, and equipment manuals.
• Knowledge of preventive maintenance, equipment reliability, maintenance planning, and industrial safety requirements.
• Strong leadership, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Working knowledge of industrial refrigeration and ammonia refrigeration safety/compliance requirements preferred.
• Bilingual English/Spanish strongly preferred.

Education & Experience
• Associate degree in maintenance, electrical, mechanical, industrial technology, or related field preferred; or four (4) or more years of relevant experience/training; or an equivalent combination.
• Minimum three (3) years of supervisory or maintenance leadership experience.
• Manufacturing experience strongly preferred; food or beverage manufacturing experience preferred.
• PLC and industrial automation experience strongly preferred.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds.

Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and risk of electrical shock. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

EEOC

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