Supervisor, Buildings & Grounds

Location: Onsite – Kohler, WI Opportunity: The Building Grounds Supervisor is an opportunity to lead a critical campus-services organization supporting Kohler Co.’s Wisconsin operations. This role provides direct leadership to 14 union associates across Yard Support and Stores and is accountable for safe, reliable, and compliant operations spanning snow and ice response, landfill and waste-stream management, material movement, inventory services, contractor performance, and environmental stewardship.

The successful candidate will combine hands-on operational leadership, effective labor relations, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement to strengthen service delivery across the Wisconsin campus. Specific Responsibilities : Leadership, Labor Relations Daily Operations Directly supervise, schedule, assign, and evaluate the work of 14 union associates: seven in Yard Support and seven in Stores.

Provide coverage and direction across shifts, weekends, holidays, emergencies, and severe weather events as required. Administer the applicable collective bargaining agreement, work rules, attendance expectations, job assignments, overtime, training, performance management, and corrective action consistently and in partnership with Human Resources and Labor Relations.

Lead daily safety discussions, pre-job planning, work prioritization, shift communication, and service coordination. Set clear expectations and hold associates accountable for safety, quality, delivery, cost, and housekeeping. Develop associate capability through onboarding, cross-training, qualification tracking, coaching, and succession planning.

Maintain department procedures, standard work, and training records. Use SAP/CMMS and other business systems to plan work, manage notifications and work orders, document labor and service activity, review performance, and improve schedule compliance. Maintain effective working relationships with production, maintenance, Environmental Health Safety (EHS), Purchasing, Security, Human Resources, Finance, and campus stakeholders.

Snow Ice Management Own the snow and ice removal program for the Kohler Co. Wisconsin campus, including roads, parking lots, loading and service areas, pedestrian routes, rail areas, and other assigned properties. Develop seasonal readiness plans, route assignments, call-in protocols, staffing and overtime plans, equipment inspections, de-icing material inventories, contractor coverage, and escalation procedures.

Monitor forecasts and site conditions, lead event response, coordinate internal and contracted resources, communicate priorities, and verify that critical access routes are treated and maintained. Landfill, Waste Streams Environmental Services Provide direct oversight of daily landfill operations, including inspections, waste acceptance and placement, cover, grading, erosion control, access, housekeeping, equipment readiness, recordkeeping, and coordination of corrective actions.

Own and manage waste-stream contracts and contractors, including scope of development, sourcing support, service expectations, scheduling, safety orientation, site access, invoice validation, performance reviews, issue resolution, and renewal recommendations. Manage campus waste, recycling, salvage, confidential-material destruction, and related service streams.

Track volumes, costs, diversion opportunities, contract compliance, and vendor performance. Identify waste reduction, reuse, recycling, and cost-control opportunities that support Kohler Co. for environmental and operational goals. Yard Support Operations Direct heavy-equipment and mobile-equipment work associated with waste collection, recycling, salvage, material hauling, road and ground upkeep, street sweeping, drain cleaning, deliveries, rail support, and emergency campus services.

Ensure operators complete required inspections and that roll-off trucks, loaders, skid steers, sweepers, forklifts, Tool. Cat, payloaders, and related equipment are safely operated, maintained, fueled, and available. Coordinate work requests and priorities with customers across the campus. Balance scheduled services with urgent production, safety, environmental, stewardship events and weather-related needs.

Maintain safe, orderly yard, recycled, salvage, landfill, and storage areas. Support inventory records, shipping documents, material disposition, and campus programs assigned to the department. Stores Operations Lead union Stores associates with the safe and accurate receiving, storage, issue, staging, and delivery of maintenance materials, repair parts, supplies, and another assigned inventory.

Ensure transactions, cycle counts, material locations, returns, and inventory records are prompt and accurate. Investigate discrepancies and partner with Purchasing and customers to improve material availability. Establish service priorities and staffing to support planned and emergency maintenance needs. Monitor stock-outs, aged or obsolete inventory, critical spares, housekeeping, and secure storage requirements.

Initiate and author annual inventory scrap ACT to remove obsolete and no longer used materials from Maintenance Stores inventory.