Maintenance Supervisor (1st Shift)

About Foster Poultry Farms

Foster Poultry Farms has been serving families since 1939. At Foster Poultry Farms, our mission is creating great food and serving great moments. Our vision is to be the best and most trusted food company, empowering and nourishing the lives of those we serve. We measure our success by how well we protect and care for our team, our consumers, our animals, and our environment, while delivering operational excellence and exceptional value to our customers. Foster Poultry Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Poultry Farms Team.

Position Summary

The Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for leading and coordinating maintenance activities to ensure safe, reliability, and efficient operation of equipment and facilities. This role oversees preventive and corrective maintenance, supervises maintenance mechanics, supports production uptime, and ensures compliance with food safety, quality, and regulatory standards while promoting a culture of safety and continuous improvement. This role works closely with the department supervisors, other department leads, and processing team members, in order to accomplish accuracy within the processing department and to ensure that our customers receive quality products. This position executes processes that ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations, supporting Foster Poultry Farms’ mission, vision, and ACTION guiding principles: Accountability, Collaboration, Truth-Seeking, Initiative, Ownership, and Nimbleness.

Essential Functions

• Supervise maintenance department and attain department goals and standards; costs, productivity, quality, and safety.

• Perform frequent on-the-job inspections to ensure the following (but no limited to): safe working habits, safe work areas, quality of workmanship, effectiveness of maintenance and repairs.

• Prepare work schedules and work order assignments as required to support the total maintenance program and the requirements of production.

• Evaluate, prioritize and schedule maintenance repair requests to ensure timely completion of repair actions.

• Develop on-the-job training programs for new personnel, evaluate and document training records, develop training requirements for new equipment and develop skill-level up-grading test.

• Routinely inspect equipment for needed repairs and maintenance and repair requests.

• Responsible for continuous training programs as directed by the Maintenance Manager, to increase effectiveness of maintenance staff.

• Other duties as assigned.

All personnel employed or associated with Foster Farms are responsible for the quality and food safety of company products. The food safety and quality policies are summarized and communicated in a company handbook and at training sessions. All employees attend a refresher training session at least once per year.