Maintenance Supervisor - Mechanical Research Crafts

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Maintenance Supervisor – Mechanical Research Crafts

Job Description

Are you a hands-on maintenance leader who enjoys developing skilled teams, solving complex mechanical challenges, and supporting innovative technical environments?

We are seeking a Maintenance Supervisor – Mechanical Research Crafts to provide frontline leadership for a diverse team supporting research, development, and facility maintenance activities at the ESL site.

In this role, you will lead a highly skilled group that includes pipefitters, millwrights, machinists, sheet metal mechanics, pressure systems professionals, planners, and administrators. You will play an important role in ensuring work is performed safely, effectively, and on schedule while partnering closely with research customers and facility teams.

This is an opportunity for an experienced maintenance leader to combine people leadership, mechanical expertise, safety, operational discipline, and continuous improvement in an environment where skilled crafts directly support research and innovation.

What You’ll Do

• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and direction to a diverse team of skilled mechanical crafts professionals.
• Build a strong culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, and operational excellence.
• Coordinate scheduled, preventive, and unscheduled maintenance activities to support research customers and facility requirements.
• Ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with established operating procedures, maintenance standards, and applicable requirements.
• Lead and reinforce expectations related to process safety, housekeeping, operational discipline, attendance, and work execution.
• Respond effectively to personnel, operational, safety, and environmental incidents.
• Partner with research customers and other stakeholders to understand priorities, coordinate resources, and deliver high-quality craft services.
• Coach and develop team members while building an engaged, high-performing organization.
• Identify opportunities to improve maintenance execution, team effectiveness, productivity, and customer service.
• Establish and monitor meaningful performance measures to help the team continuously improve.
• Maintain clear and effective communication across the organization, ensuring priorities, issues, and expectations are understood.

What We’re Looking For

The successful candidate will be a strong people leader with a solid understanding of maintenance and skilled-crafts operations and the ability to lead effectively in a safety-focused, technical environment.

You will bring:

• Associates degree or equivalent relevant experience required.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing a diverse team, preferably within maintenance, facilities, mechanical crafts, manufacturing, or another technical environment.
• Knowledge of maintenance and crafts operations, industry standards, safe work practices, and operational best practices.
• Strong commitment to safety, operational discipline, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple maintenance activities while balancing customer and business needs.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships, influence others, resolve issues, and drive change.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact effectively across multiple levels of an organization.
• Strong organizational and record-keeping capabilities.
• Ability to establish meaningful performance measures and use them to improve team and maintenance performance.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as web-based business systems.
• Experience with SAP work-order functionality or comparable computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).

What Will Help You Succeed

You will thrive in this role if you are someone who:

• Enjoys developing and motivating skilled employees.
• Leads with safety and holds yourself and others accountable.
• Can move comfortably between people leadership and technical maintenance challenges.
• Builds strong relationships with internal customers.
• Makes sound decisions in fast-moving situations.
• Looks for better ways to execute work and improve team performance.
• Can translate broader business priorities into clear, actionable plans for a frontline team.
• Takes pride in delivering results while maintaining high standards for quality and safety.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

Unlike a traditional maintenance supervisor position focused exclusively on production equipment, this role supports a research and development environment. The Mechanical Research Crafts team provides the skilled expertise needed to keep facilities operating while helping research customers accomplish highly technical work.

For someone coming from industrial maintenance, manufacturing, chemical operations, facilities, skilled trades, or research operations, this offers the chance to lead experienced crafts professionals while supporting work connected to innovation and R&D.

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