Facilities Supervisor

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

This is a key role requiring extensive technical and organizational skills. The Facilities Supervisor is required to manage a team of Facilities Technicians and includes day-to-day oversight of departmental goals for Safety, Quality, Customer demands and Operational Effectiveness. The position will supervise, train, and develop team members to ensure work instructions are followed and maintained up to date in line with global, local and Customer requirements in conjunction with Facilities Management at the campus. Responsible for frontline site safety and maximizing plant uptime to ensure Customer Satisfaction, cash flow and site targets are achieved. Ensuring strict adherence to site Quality and Compliance standards. To lead and develop the Facilities team on a day-to-day basis by way of conducting a daily process review meeting

The Facilities Supervisor is a LEAN, Emaint and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) champion for the facilities team

Duties

• Ensure that standard operating procedures/work instructions and engineering procedures are current, accurate and that all work is completed in compliance to ensure maximum quality.
• To ensure that the facilities records are evaluated and approved.
• To ensure that the required initial and continuing training of department personnel is carried out and adapted according to need.

• Ensure all plant downtime is reviewed and monitored with suggestions for improvements highlighted.
• Responsible for managing the STERIS spare part inventory process, to ensure availability of key parts for planned and unplanned maintenance activities. Work closely with the Purchasing Officer to ensure cost effective purchasing is delivered.
• Ensure spare part stock levels are accurately maintained on Emaint and coordinate with Purchasing Officer to ensure Purchase Orders (PO’s) are raised in a timely manner.
• Responsible for trending of unplanned maintenance and call outs, develop paretos of root causes and develop countermeasures to ensure prioritization of projects and tasks in the facilities team

• Prepare Preventive maintenance & calibration schedules in line with the organization’s Facilities departmental key performance indicators and ensure PM & Calibration compliance.
• Ensures that all external calibration equipment is scheduled and completed in a timely manner
• Generate work orders, enter comprehensive job details, and assign work to the facilities team members and review and approve all completed work orders on a regular basis

Duties - cont'd

• Ensuring that any areas of concern with regard to people responsibility are escalated in a timely manner to the HR Department to ensure appropriate conversations take place before situations escalate and to ensure best practice and procedures are adhered to at all times.
• Motivate and develop a team that can cover all required tasks,
• Create Individual employee development plans, provide coaching, and training
• Performance Management- annual goal setting & reviews , Supervise disciplinary actions
• Labour forecasting, planning, interview/selection,

• To oversee SQDC countermeasures ensuring target dates are reported
• Monitor log all & analyse all unplanned maintenance, to ensure continued appropriateness of the Planned Maintenance programme. Proactively identify countermeasures to continually improve our process relative to plan (KPI)
• Oversee continuous improvement initiatives/activities within the department including supporting KAIZEN events
• Oversee & drive 5S program in the Facilities department
• Participate in site process mapping, gemba walks and problem solving exercises in conjunction with other departments

• Consistently improve facility performance and site safety standards

Education Degree

Vocational/Technical

Required Experience

Minimum of five (5) years of experience working in a highly regulated operations environment. The role will require the ability to demonstrate a high level of technical aptitude, computer literacy and willingness to “achieve”. Previous Supervisory experience necessary.

• An ability to build relationships with engineering, HR, quality operations and operations teams is key.
• A structured, logical thinker with good analytical skills, and excellent spreadsheet and presentation skills, you will have the ability to handle complex problems and deliver clear, concise solutions in a rapidly changing environment. 
• Project management experience is an advantage
• Able to learn fast and hit the ground running - there is potential to develop from here into more senior roles with in the business.
• Continuous improvement background is an advantage
• Set high-reaching processing goals and communicate them to key personnel
• Provide motivation, support and guidance to all employees
• Communicate any problems or obstacles to senior management