Maintenance Supervisor

Job Summary

The Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for coordinating and supervising maintenance activities to ensure that production equipment, machinery, utilities, and facilities remain safe, reliable, and available for production. The role leads the maintenance team in preventive, corrective, and breakdown maintenance while helping to minimize downtime and improve overall equipment performance.

Job Details

Maintenance Supervisor shall be responsible for:

Plan, coordinate, and supervise daily maintenance activities to ensure that production equipment, machinery, and plant facilities operate safely, efficiently, and reliably.
Provide clear directions to maintenance technicians and other associates, ensuring that all assigned tasks are completed safely, accurately, and within the required timelines, while supporting the plant’s Safety, Quality, and Reliability objectives.
Coordinate and enforce the equipment lubrication program through line technicians, ensuring that all machinery is lubricated according to established schedules and manufacturer recommendations.
Plan and communicate daily maintenance activities, prioritizing jobs based on production requirements, equipment condition, safety considerations, and operational priorities.
Oversee the daily setup and readiness of machinery and equipment before production starts, ensuring that equipment is properly inspected and fit for safe and efficient operation.
Ensure compliance with established maintenance program, company policies, food safety requirements, and regulatory standards, supporting the production of safe and quality products.
Support the development, implementation, and auditing of the Preventive Maintenance (PM) program, identifying opportunities to improve equipment reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.
Ensure scheduled preventive maintenance is completed on all relevant plant equipment in line with OEM recommendations and approved schedules, including daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annual, and annual maintenance activities.
Supervise, coach, and support maintenance technicians in the performance of their duties, providing guidance, feedback, and performance reviews to encourage accountability, technical development, and teamwork.
Identify and prepare spare-parts requirements for production and maintenance equipment, ensuring that critical spares are available when needed and submitting requests to the appropriate procurement function.
Raise and manage maintenance-related purchase requisitions in SAP, ensuring that required materials, spare parts, and services are properly requested and tracked.
Maintain high standards of personal hygiene, workplace cleanliness, and housekeeping, ensuring that maintenance activities do not compromise plant safety, food safety, or production standards.
Lead the diagnosis and resolution of mechanical breakdowns, working closely with technicians and production teams to restore equipment to normal operation as quickly and safely as possible.
Ensure that breakdown reports are prepared for equipment stoppages exceeding 20 minutes, capturing the nature of the failure, corrective action taken, downtime, and other relevant information.
Ensure root-cause analysis is conducted for recurring or significant equipment breakdowns and follow up on corrective and preventive actions to minimize repeat failures.
Review technicians’ daily duty logs and maintenance records, ensuring that completed activities, equipment conditions, outstanding issues, and follow-up actions are properly documented.
Monitor maintenance and calibration activities, ensuring that equipment requiring calibration is attended to according to the approved schedule and that records are properly maintained.
Provide regular reports to the Maintenance Manager on major maintenance activities, equipment breakdowns, preventive maintenance progress, calibration status, spare-parts requirements, and other significant maintenance issues.
Work closely with Production, Quality, Engineering, and other relevant departments to coordinate maintenance activities and minimize disruption to production.
Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in maintenance practices, equipment reliability, safety, cost efficiency, and overall plant performance.

Requirements

Skills and Attributes Required:

Knowledge of food safety & quality management systems (IS0 9001, ISO 2200, HACCP)
Ability to analyze large amounts of data
Effective communication and report writing skills.
Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills; to lead, work with and manage a team.
Working knowledge of MS Office, Excel and Power Point.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
The ability to understand, follow, and apply policies, practices, and operating procedures.
A conscious SAFETY champion at all levels of operation.

Qualification:

Minimum degree in Mechanical Engineering or related.
A minimum of 7 years relevant work experience.
An exposure to an FMCG manufacturing company a plus.

Benefits

Medical Insurance for self and four direct dependents
13th Cheque
Monthly product allocation
Leave allowance
Tier 3 Contributions; 10% each, both Employer and Employee
Funeral benefits; Parents, Spouse, Children

About Company

Kasapreko PLC

https://kasapreko.seamlesshiring.com

The visionary Dr Kwabena Adjei started this journey from garage as he saw a vision that now stands as the only Ghanaian owned in Ghana that produces herbal based alcoholic and non-alcoholic products Moved by the increasing demand of quality alcoholic products, Kasapreko Company Ltd was founded in 1989 with the niche in producing herbal based alcoholic produced sourced locally. The company that started from a small garage of Dr Kwabena Adjei has developed into a state-of-the-art production facility with over 100 sku’s and exporting to 16 countries globally under various brands in the bitters, whisky, gin, liqueur, brandy, carbonated soft drinks and wine categories. Our brands are celebrated in Africa and across the world and was the first of the local manufacturers in Ghana to have established a modern quality control and product development laboratory and introduce its own proprietary bespoke bottles and caps. Kasapreko was also responsible for the conceptualization, research, design and development of the first scientifically formulated, herbal-based alcoholic beverage in Ghana – Alomo Bitters which is now the company’s flagship product. Our unique selling preposition of producing herbal based products is derived from our rich Ghanaian heritage, differentiating Kasapreko from others. We continuously make use of research and development as well as the latest technology with local/traditional recipes in our production process.