Equipment Maintenance & Reliability Supervisor

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Position Summary

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team you will do meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale and helps bring our Mission to lifeenabling our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer.

The Maintenance & Reliability Supervisor leads the maintenance organization supporting manufacturing equipment facilities and utilities at the Mebane site. This role is responsible for developing a proactive reliability-focused maintenance organization that improves Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) maximizes equipment availability reduces unplanned downtime and ensures safe compliant and effective maintenance execution.

This leader develops the technical capability of the maintenance team while driving Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Tiered Daily Management (TDM) formalized problem solving and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) preventive and predictive maintenance spare-parts management Good Documentation Practices (GDP) and maintenance KPI performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead coach and develop maintenance personnel to achieve safety quality reliability OEE and operational objectives. Build team capability through structured training hands-on teaching cross-training and individual development.

• Lead preventive predictive corrective and emergency maintenance for manufacturing equipment and facility systems. Ensure work is effectively prioritized planned scheduled executed documented and closed.

• Drive the organization from reactive maintenance toward a planned preventive predictive and condition-based maintenance culture.

• Use OEE and equipment-loss data to identify and prioritize reliability improvements. Partner with Manufacturing Engineering and Quality to address Availability Performance and Quality losses with particular focus on maintenance-driven Availability losses.

• Lead and sustain TPM practices that create shared ownership of equipment condition and performance between Maintenance and Operations including autonomous maintenance and basic equipment care.

• Actively support Tiered Daily Management using visual management equipment status downtime maintenance KPIs planned work and escalation processes to establish priorities and drive accountability.

• Lead formalized problem solving and RCA for significant and recurring equipment failures. Coach technicians in structured troubleshooting ensure corrective actions address true root causes and verify effectiveness to prevent recurrence.

• Own and drive maintenance and reliability KPIs including OEE/Availability losses unplanned downtime planned versus reactive maintenance PM compliance MTBF MTTR repeat failures backlog maintenance spend and RCA effectiveness.

• Establish an effective critical-spares and MRO inventory strategy based on equipment criticality risk lead time and business impact. Maintain appropriate stocking levels inventory accuracy BOMs and obsolescence plans.

• Ensure effective use of the CMMS including work-order quality equipment history PM/PdM execution maintenance backlog failure documentation and data integrity.

• Ensure maintenance activities and records meet GDP site procedures quality-system safety and regulatory requirements.

• Lead continuous improvement using PPI Kaizen OEE loss analysis maintenance data and structured problem solving to improve equipment reliability maintainability and performance. PPI/Kaizen is already an expectation in the existing position.

• Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering on equipment installation modification lifecycle management reliability improvement and maintenance strategies for new and existing equipment. These responsibilities align with the existing scope of the position.

• Provide maintenance oversight for plant utilities and facility systems including HVAC chillers dryers compressors cooling towers pumps electrical systems and supporting infrastructure.

• Manage the maintenance budget external service providers resource utilization and repair-versus-replace decisions while supporting capital and equipment lifecycle planning.

• Maintain strong standards for safety LOTO 5S contractor compliance and regulatory compliance across maintenance activities.

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Electrical Electromechanical Engineering Engineering Technology or a related discipline preferred or equivalent relevant experience.

• 8 years of progressive industrial maintenance experience preferred with demonstrated experience leading maintenance technicians or skilled technical personnel.

• 3 years of maintenance leadership or supervisory experience preferred.

• Strong experience with preventive predictive and corrective maintenance in a manufacturing environment.

• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot mechanical electrical pneumatic hydraulic controls and/or automation systems.

• Experience with TPM Tiered Daily Management OEE formalized problem solving/RCA CMMS maintenance KPIs and critical-spares management strongly preferred.

• Experience supporting injection molding (IMM) plastics manufacturing automated assembly packaging or similar high-volume manufacturing equipment preferred.

• Experience working within a regulated manufacturing environment with strong GDP and documentation discipline preferred.

• Experience with Lean Kaizen PPI or comparable continuous-improvement systems preferred.

• Relevant electrical HVAC mechanical maintenance or reliability certifications are a plus.

• Strong knowledge of industrial mechanical electrical pneumatic hydraulic controls automation and facility systems.

• Strong systematic troubleshooting and equipment-diagnostic capability including the ability to read and interpret technical drawings and schematics.

• Working knowledge of OEE TPM equipment reliability PM/PdM MTBF MTTR RCA maintenance planning and scheduling and spare-parts management.

• Ability to use equipment and maintenance data to identify losses establish priorities and drive measurable improvement.

• Demonstrated ability to teach coach and develop technical personnel.

• Strong communication organization prioritization and cross-functional leadership skills.

• Ability to balance immediate production needs with long-term equipment health and reliability.

• Demonstrated commitment to safety quality GDP accountability and continuous improvement.